Monday, March 28, 2011

New Children Museum


The New Children’s Museum is a wonderful and exciting place where children can explore hands-on activities. Typically children are not excited about going to a museum, but in every room of this museum they have the opportunity to get involved and learn. Each room offered something different and for all ages. The museum is planned to give every age an engaging experience while also involving their parents. The museum is designed to have parents play and bond with their children.
Every room has an educational value, specifically in the room covered with orange carpet. You would not think that there is educational learning involved in the room until you notice the delayed camera on the wall. Children do not notice when they enter into the room, after playing with the carpet and writing their names they notice that they are being filmed then they realize that the camera is delayed. New media is all around the museum. 
In the cowboy themed room toddlers can play with an entire line of light switches that control the lights, music, and disco ball. They can learn the correlation between flicking a light switch and what it controls.
Outside children can leave their mark in the museum. They can paint on a monument inside of the museum, for many children this is an amazing experience. Typically you cannot touch anything in a museum and if you can you must leave it the way you found it, everyone can change the whale tail monument. 
Every child and adult should have the chance to visit the New Children's Museum. The constantly changing exhibits allow for children to return to something new and experience the museum in a whole new way with each year they age.

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