Learning is always fun for kids! Museums cater to children’s needs and curiosities in wonderful ways.
A visit to a museum is a great way to explore about art, technology, culture and science. Have a day of fun with your kids, at these kid-friendly places. Find below one of the best kid-friendly museum in Houston, the most populous city in the United States.
Best Kid-Friendly Museum In Houston
Houston is known for its wide range of museums, from small-scale exhibits to huge collections. The Museum District hosts museums for everything from planes, offshore drilling rigs, to trains and automobiles and much more. One of the best museums in Houston, is the Children’s Museum Of Houston.
Children’s Museum Of Houston
A perfect venue to engage kids and adults of all ages. Kids experience hands-on learning in the different exhibits at the Children’s Museum. Located on a 90,000 square feet of exhibit space, this museum includes several outdoor and indoor exhibit galleries.
Exhibits at the Children’s Museum Of Houston, are
1.Cum Yah Gullah
The Children’s Museum of Houston is reviving the arts and practices of the Gullah people in a powerful and reinvented exhibit, titled Cum Yah Gullah. This exhibit aims to provide and preserve cultural understanding of Gullah traditions, develop an appreciation for one’s own culture and background, and also explores the ecosystems and geography of the Sea Islands.
The Gullah heritage is distinct and is expressed in this exhibit through the culture’s unique customs, music, storytelling, language and more.
You will be inspired to reflect and investigate on your own culture and the culture of others, by exploring this rich history of Gullah culture!
2. Newton Know-How!
Another exhibit in the Children’s Museum of Houston, where you can engage in fun and educational activities. These educational activities will help you understand with the laws of motion, associated with physics.
Come and step into a world, with action as you dig into friction, gravity, force, momentum and speed in the Newton Know-How! exhibit. This exhibit started on 4 Feb of this year and be open till 7 May, 2017, at the Children’s Museum of Houston.
Children get a hands-on experience in this exhibit, especially designed for open-ended explorations of physics. The William Stamp Farish Fund, a non-profit organization is the sponsor for this exhibit.
3.Chevron-Houston Texans Maker Annex
The Houston Texans in partnership with Chevron enhanced the STEM Maker (Science, Math, Classroom, School, Teaching) Annex at the Children’s Museum of Houston. This is the best place, where children can showcase their work, through inventions and construct made by them.
Children can even tap into their creative potential with access to resources such as casting, programming with Scratch and Arduino, building and soldering circuits, game development, 3D printing, circuit bending, laser cutting, animation, robotics and many more.
The workshop at the exhibit, begin by introducing various engineering concepts. The topics in the workshops, focuses on everything from electricity to structural integrity. Visitors at the museum, are then challenged to create products, which in turn encourages learning through self-exploration.
Every workshop done, is designed to expose participants to a handful of materials and tools. Even, habits needed to safely work with the tools, and the best skills, in the Maker Annex, are limited to ages 8, with a parent or a guardian.
Maker Annex hours, are limited from 5:30 – 7:30pm, on Thursdays; and from 2:00 – 4:00 pm, on Saturdays for the general public. For the school tours, the workshop works from 9:45 a.m. – 12 p.m. or 1:45 p.m. – 4 p.m. on Tuesdays; and from 9:45 a.m. – 12 p.m. or 1:45 p.m. – 4 p.m. on Wednesdays.
This exhibit is sponsored by the houston texans, a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas, and the Chevron Group.
4. Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo School Art Program
Inspired by the Western heritage, nearly about 50 pieces of artwork, add spark at the Children’s Museum of Houston. Created by students from all over Texas, who participated over the years, in the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo School Art Program .
It is estimated that about, more than 300,000 entries are received from about 100 school districts, and more than 30-private schools in Houston and surrounding areas every year. These Western-inspired masterpieces, can be viewed now in the Museum’s colorful Kids’ Hall.
An international law firm, Bracewell & Guiliani, are the sponsors for the event.
5.Cyberchase
The Cyberchase exhibit, at the Children’s Museum Of Houston is aligned to the Math TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills), a Texas Education Agency for Kindergarten through Grade 5. Based on Cyberchase, the Emmy Award-winning math mystery cartoon, “Cyberchase – The Chase Is On!” presents math in a kid-friendly environment, and fun, allowing children to make use of their thinking skills and approach math with a positive attitude.
Children can enter through a special portal to explore favorite cybersites, including the Grim Wreaker, the Control Central and the Poddleville. Get the opportunity to help the CyberSquad, in protecting the virtual universe from the evil Hacker.
Explore various math concepts, such as fractions and probability, algebra, geometry and place values. Not only children will learn maths, but will also be able to experience many activities.
“Cyberchase – The Chase Is On!” is in partnership with ‘Thirteen’, America’s most respected and innovative public media providers, with major funding provided by the JPB Foundation, and EY, a multinational professional services firm in the UK.
Other exhibits at the Children’s Museum of Houston are
Ecostation
An active outdoor/indoor environmental exhibit, where visitors explore environmental issues and engage in ecological studies.
The Watery Flow Station
Dive into the forces and properties of water through waves. Explore the fascinating concept of hydro power.
How Does It Work?
Ask your child to discover the answers to the science questions with hands-on and investigative experiences.
Invention Convention
Step into a workshop of gizmos and gadgets where children create and construct devices of their own.
Inventor’s Workshop
Let your kids participate in a wide variety of inventive workshops and creative thinking with the Museum staff, playing the role of resident inventors.
Kidtropolis, Matter Factory, Power Play, John P. McGovern Kids Hall, are the other popular exhibits at the Children’s Museum of Houston
A separate Tot area is also available, especially for the tiny tots, ideally suited for children ages birth to 35 months.
By Supraja
