Visiting a Museum

Since moving away from the city we have missed going to the museum, but memberships are well worth their cost and we used to go regularly.

We did see the Pompeii exhibit when it was in Melbourne. Princess wasn’t interested in most of it, but enjoyed the 3D movie covering the day of Mount Vesuvius’ eruption (she loves volcanoes, particularly Vesuvius), and because she had seen the pictures of the body casts she was very excited about seeing them. I guess it was about a year ago now, so she would have been a bit under 3 when we saw it.

Pompeii was a better exhibit for us than the Mummies one we had seen previously, probably because she was a little older and had some idea of what we were going to see.
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We’ve been visiting regional/rural museums of late to escape the school holiday crowds and they are so worth it.
Best thing I’ve found is to let kids go at their own pace and we’ve set the rules for awhile now that souvenirs consist of a postcard of their favoured item.
That way they have a reminder of their visit and the particular exhibit they enjoyed 🙂
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I took DD to Corfe Castle recently (Dorset, UK – near our home) and she loved the visitor centre more than the castle *lol* Scrambling about the ruins in one thing, but a tent full of dressing up costumes? Wooden castle-building blocks? Chess pieces painted like little kings, queens etc? (apparently chess pieces also enjoy playing “shop”)

In the visitor centre there were all kinds of buttons to make noise or pictures, depending on the display we were at. I don’t think DD (aged 3) took much interest in the actual history of the castle, but it certainly kept her happy! And there was a geology display too 😉 The local area has chalk, sandstone, limestone and shale all very close by, and she had lots of fun rubbing the different rocks and pointing “Look Mummy! Baby shells!”

The walk to the castle was also great – the NT have created a wildlife trail, with funky swinging signposts asking kids to find different leaves as they walk along, listen for specific birds and so on. They’ve done really well to get kids looking and learning around them. We’ll go back, and try a few other NT properties nearby too!

Very true, I like these picture of my nephew at the Staten Island Children’s Museum. Kids are great learners. Often just letting them learn what they want is best.
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