Added: 12/25/2005 |
Discover the Childrens Discovery MuseumThe concept of a childrens museum dates back more than a century. The first in the USA opened in Brooklyn in 1899. But it wasn't until the 1980s that Childrens museums started becoming more common. And in the 1990s they really took off and more than 80 were opened.
It seems, that one of the main goals of children`s museums is to unite a family.
Enter the world of young Carmen's family, created by the Childrens Museum of Austin and you`ll find a festive atmosphere full of music, color and movement! Select paintings from Carmen Lomas Garza's children's books have been re-created in three-dimensions, including Tamalada-Making Tamales, Barbacoa para Cumpleanos-Birthday Barbecue, Baile in 1958-Dance in 1958, and Camas para Suenos-Beds for Dreaming. Visitors can share in the traditions of Ms. Garza's Mexican-American family, participate in the activities depicted, and reflect on the ways all families pass on their culture through food, celebration, and storytelling.
But there are also museums that concentrate children in special things , that could seem difficult to their parents, like the world of discovery and science.
In Childrens Discovery Museum of San Jose you can expect to test, crank, listen, prod and tinker. One of the largest museums of its kind in the nation, CDM's 150 interactive exhibits lead visitors to explore, understand and enjoy the world in which they live.
Here you can open the door to a wonder-full world where our youngest explorers can make big discoveries! In Childrens Discovery Museum's newest 3,000 square foot exhibit, you'll find the Woodland Puppet Forest, Giant Dragon, Sand Science Laboratory, Crawl-Through Tunnel, Child-Sized Kaleidoscope, and more.
Infants, toddlers, and preschoolers will build, touch, create, listen, look, pretend, and laugh in Childrens Discovery Museum. And as they collect precious memories, adults will share in their child's delight and marvel at their curiosity.
The Crawl Space, designed specifically for pre-walkers, features sensory activities, mirrors, puppets, dioramas and even an aquarium in the floor that infants can slither or crawl up to. The Forest is a place to explore stories, where a giant tree is really a theatre, the woodland animals are puppets, the grassy knoll is comfortable seating for an adult audience and the forest is filled with books. The ABC Case helps visitors explore the alphabet in creative new ways, where each letter is in a shadow box, such as "E is for eating."
In Childrens Discovery Museum, around every corner of the six-sided Hexagon, is a surprise awaiting young children. Whether it's natural history artifacts or exploring various scents, they will encounter incredible things as they work their way back to the start. Upstairs-Downstairs has a Tunnel and the bottom, a Shadow Room at the top, and the Room of Sounds and the Ball Machines tucked into its nooks and crannies.
The Art Studio encourages young children to experiment with materials guided by specially-trained staff or to explore the Paint Wall and the Sensory Art Table on their own. The Wonder File was developed with adult caregivers in mind and houses a host of resources on child development, parenting, play, health and safety, among others.
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