ImaginOn: The Joe & Joan Martin Center in Charlotte, NC

ImaginOn: The Joe & Joan Martin Center in Charlotte, NC, is 100,000 square feet of endless wonder and awe. As soon as you walk in, you are greeted by the enormous alligator skeleton suspended from the ceiling. As you look up and around, stunning art displays, multi-use creative spaces, open-ended toys, theater performances, special programs, and countless shelves with books make you wish to be a kid again. A towering 40-foot-tall Story Jar unites it all together, bringing even more creativity into space and appealing to visitors' imagination.

It gives you access to all this and much more:

Spangler Library
Children's Theatre of Charlotte
Park Family Story Lab
The Loft for Teens with Tech Central
Teen Cafe
The Block for Preteens with a huge LEGO table
Special Programs for Children

Spangler Library

Park Family Story Lab

This creative space invites children to make up their own games and act out stories using puppets, open-ended toys, and their imagination. With the Page Stage and Puppet Theatre any story can be brought to life.

Teen Cafe

Art Exhibits

Open-Ended Toys

For endless hours of play, there are many open-ended toys of all shapes and colors throughout the library and Park Family Story Lab. They encourage kids to explore their environment freely and come up with a new game after a new game. At the same time, toy chests and tables appear in places where they would not distract kids from exploring and reading the books.

Special Programs for Children

Rupert the Dragon

And be ready to come face-to-face with Rupert the Dragon.