OK, so the picture above (snapped with my phone camera on an early morning bike ride) is really a bridge renovation project, not a work of environmental art. But it did remind me of some great outdoor sculpture exhibits we’ve …
Continue ReadingEver wonder what you would look like as a neanderthal? Wonder no more – the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has released an iPhone and Android app that allows you to morph your image into a Homo floresiensis, neanderthalenis …
Continue ReadingWhen my kids were little, one of our favorite places to visit was the local science museum. It was a small place, geared to younger children but large enough to keep them occupied for nearly a whole day. That museum’s …
Continue ReadingThe American Museum of Natural History has put out an app that lets you peruse dinosaur images and information, almost as if you were at the museum itself. And it’s free! You could spend hours studying the interesting images in …
Continue ReadingThe Dallas Museum of Nature and Science will be hosting Tech Fest 2010 this weekend. From the smallest conveniences to the biggest innovations, this annual event encourages visitors to rethink technology and get excited about future scientific discoveries and achievements. …
Continue ReadingWe dropped in to our local art museum the other day, and I was reminded of why taking kids to see art – especially contemporary art – is such a serendipitous experience. Just past the coat room is a space …
Continue ReadingThis is a reminder to take advantage of your local participating museum tomorrow, September 26, for Smithsonian’s Free Museum Day 2009. Get free admission to museums all over the country. Visit the website and get your admission card today! Then …
Continue ReadingMr. Rogers’s sweater. Image via Wikipedia Free Museum Day 2009 is quickly approaching! Mark your calendars and participate this year. On September 26th, you and a guest will get free general admission to hundreds of museums and cultural spots around …
Continue ReadingImage by Marshall Astor via Flickr Almost no list is complete. So when I read Doug Cornelius’s post on 100 Geeky Places to Take Your Kids This Summer, I immediately started making a list of additional spots. So here is …
Continue ReadingBecause the Big Apple is just too big to fit in one post, this is part two of our Memorial Day weekend NYC trip. Featured this round are the American Museum of Natural History, Top of the Rock and the …
Continue Reading“We use a lot of liquid nitrogen. We blow a lot of things up.” You’ve got to love a conversation that includes those two sentences, right? They’re from Linda Abraham-Silver, the president and executive director of the Great Lakes Science …
Continue ReadingThere are many great museums in the world, but sadly most people will only ever get to visit a fraction of them. Fortunately, a lot of them have an excellent online presence—along with a huge number of less-great museums, many …
Continue ReadingA couple of weeks ago, my kids and I took a field trip to the Arizona Science Center, the science museum in Phoenix. I’d been wanting to go check out the museum for some time, but the thing that finally pushed me to take the kids is the current Star Trek exhibit. It isn’t as […]
Continue ReadingImage via Wikipedia The Houston Museum of Natural Science is located in the Museum District of central Houston, at the north end of Hermann Park. Founded in 1908, it is one of the most attended museums in the United States, hosting more than two million visitors annually. This puts it in the same attendance category […]
Continue ReadingIt’s National Wildlife Week, and the National Wildlife Federation is urging parents to participate by making time for outdoor play and interaction with the natural world. But for many of us it’s still too cold and wet outside to commune with anything more natural than mud (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Anyway, it […]
Continue ReadingIn December of 1953, the Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments on what was to become a landmark case. Brown v. Board of Education lead to the Court striking down the "separate but equal" doctrine which had existed up until that time, making it illegal to segregate the public schools, based on race. […]
Continue ReadingMy family and I recently traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (Earth) to visit family for the Thanksgiving Holiday. While there, we had the opportunity to explore the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal. It is actually three museums, plus additional attractions, all in one facility. One of the attractions is the building itself. Union Terminal […]
Continue ReadingWe met some friends and their kids at the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey last weekend, which has been remodeled and expanded since we were last there a few years ago. Although we only got to spend a couple hours, we visited the creepy crawlies in the Eat and Be Eaten exhibit, made virtual […]
Continue ReadingOne of my kids’ favorite museums is the National Air & Space Museum’s annex near Dulles Airport. And, like most kids in the U.S. under 15, one of their favorite holidays is Halloween. Last night, at an annual event called Air & Scare, they (and my wife and I) had a chance to combine the […]
Continue ReadingI grew up with Jim Henson. I never met him, but I watched so many episodes of Sesame Street I couldn’t possibly count them, and saw every episode of The Muppet Show when I was a bit older. Over the years I read a lot about him, enjoyed the Muppet movies, saw and loved The […]
Continue ReadingForget the stereotype of the stuffy, don’t-touch-the-art, kid-unfriendly museum. Interactive museums can be entertaining, engaging and educational — even for a generation of kids raised on Nintendo DS. The days of "look, but don’t touch" are being cast aside as museums strive to compete with theme parks. And in a time of shrinking entertainment budgets, […]
Continue ReadingSchool is out, or very nearly out, for many, which means there are family field trips to plan! If you’re a geek family in the New Mexico region, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science has a new exhibit "Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Triassic New Mexico" that started on May 17. The exhibit […]
Continue ReadingThe Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson is a must visit for anyone in the Wichita area. The museum building may look small from the outside, but inside it is absolutely jam-packed with a huge collection of space artifacts and replicas. They claim to be second only to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum […]
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