tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post2772085876224346357..comments2023-11-03T06:32:28.410-04:00Comments on Staring At Empty Pages: Hands-on museumsBarry Leibahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14205294935881991457noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-24168968804989532802007-03-21T07:05:00.000-04:002007-03-21T07:05:00.000-04:00Maybe it doesn't matter how much children get out ...Maybe it doesn't matter how much children get out of a museum, just that they love being there and so they eventually return, or are inspired to learn something in the future.<BR/><BR/>All I remember from childhood visits to the science museum in Boston is the T.Rex (now replaced by a more modern vision of T. Rex) and the smoker's lungs. I hate going there now when it's crowded, because you get the zero-attention-span kids who just run from exhibit to exhibit touching stuff, and you can't take your time learning everything an exhibit is offering to teach. (Many involve cooperation of multiple people.)<BR/><BR/>The MoS in Boston offers scouting overnight trips, which is fun because you have the whole museum to yourself (a bunch of scouts) after it closes for a couple of hours, and they have special directed programs.<BR/><BR/>I was happy the other day because my older daughter (twelve this weekend) asked to go to the Harvard Museum of Natural History again. We did that over the summer and I really enjoyed it, but I wasn't sure if the children had. It had only one interactive exhibit (global warming), and the rest reminded me of something out of Indiana Jones -- creaky, dusty, stuff jammed into every corner. It was great.Maggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16681883169121834569noreply@blogger.com