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The Getty Center
Los Angeles
www.getty.edu/education/
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles
www.lacma.org
The Museum of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles
www.moca-la.org
The Exploratorium
San Francisco
http://www.exploratorium.edu
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco
www.sfmoma.org
Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-CAR-TOON
www.cartoonart.org
Hours: Tues. – Sun. 11:00 - 5:00, Closed Monday
The Cartoon Art Museum is a tax-exempt, non-profit, educational organization
dedicated to the collection, preservation, study and exhibition of original
cartoon art in all forms.
Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens
www.strybing.org
Metreon
www.metreon.com
Children's Holiday Movie Screening & Storytime: Saturdays 11/30 - 12/28
Where the Wild Things Are -- Interactive children's exhibition
based on the Maurice Sendak children's book. Ongoing.
Pier 39
www.pier39.com
Riptide Arcade -- Video game and prize arcade. Also featuring Flower Power
Body Art providing temporary airbrushed tattoos. Carousel Turbo-ride --
Large-screen simulation ride featuring films with seats that move: Secrets
of the Lost Temple, Dino Island, Superstition with Elvira, and the James
Bond 007 ride License to Thrill.
Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf
More than 260 handcrafted wax figures in 50 settings, including the
Chamber of Horrors, Hall of Presidents and Hollywood.
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose
http://www.cdm.org/
This museum boasts the world's only permanent giant Monopoly board, ample
picnic space, an annual Backyard National Children's Film Festival, a
webzine http://www.getchy.com, parent/child
workshops for several younger age groups, seasonal garden-related workshops,
math-related workshops, writing-related workshops, music-related workshops,
and cooking-related workshops between the hours of 10 am and 4 pm daily,
excluding Mondays (I'm exhausted just thinking about the number of kids
that must come through there each day). It also offers volunteer opportunities
for high school and college students. The museum was chosen as one of
Child Magazine's and MSN City Search's top ten national children's museums.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
www.corcoran.edu
National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
www.nga.gov
National Museum of the American Indian
Washington, DC
www.si.edu/nmai
Bug Bytes, Bug Noise Museum, online
http://cmave.usda.ufl.edu/~rmankin/soundlibrary.html
Containing a catalog of recorded insect noises, this Web site is presented
by Richard Mankin of the Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary
Entomology, a division of the US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural
Research Service. Organized by species and subject, this unusual library
contains approximately 40 audio clips of such subtle insect noises as
the wing vibrations of a butterfly and the sound of a termite feeding.
Some background noise is unavoidable with recordings such as these, but
the Web site includes a sample file for training the ear to distinguish
insect noises from extraneous sounds.
http://cmave.usda.ufl.edu/~rmankin/soundlibrary.html
Florida Museum of Natural History, in Gainesville, FL
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu
This museum boast tons of exhibits, along with some rather exclusive collections,
including the international shark attack files and one of the world's
largest and most complete butterfly collections. The museum website has
images of many of the items in the collections, with vibrant photographs
of alligators, rare plants, fish, and birds. In addition to the images,
the website also has virtual tours of the oldest
city in the USA - St. Augustine, Horse
Fossils, a Mayan
Exhibit, Boats
Shipwrecked off of Florida's coast, and more!
The Norton Museum of Art, in West Palm Beach, FL
www.norton.org
The Norton Museum of Art houses works by Picasso, Matisse, O'Keefe, Monet,
Pollack and many others. The permanent collection includes European, American,
and Chinese art in addition to Contemporary art and Photography.
Orlando Museum of Art, in Orlando, FL
www.omart.org
Upcoming Exhibit: "From Goodnight Moon to Art Dog: The World of Clement,
Edith and Thacher Hurd" May 29- September 5, 2004
Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida, in Gainesville,
FL
http://www.harnmuseum.org/index.php
Current Exhibit: "Jacques-Henri Lartigue: A Boy, A Camera, An Era"
March 09, 2004 - July 18, 2004
http://www.puppet.org/ -- Center
for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta, Georgia
The Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago
www.artic.edu
Museum of Science and Industry
Chicago
www.msichicago.org/
The Museum of Broadcast Communications
http://www.museum.tv
Located in Chicago. Its website hosts free streaming video documentaries
for educational use, and contains a history on presidential debate. The
museum has several permanent exhibits (not all specifically for children):
AT&T Broadband Center, play a newsanchor and take home your news
segment on videotape, explore the history of cable television; AC Neilsen
Jr. Research Center discover or re-live memorable TV/radio moments
through archives with hundreds of thousands of programs, commercials,
radio segments, and newscasts. Through their schools, students can access
the archives at a discount for research purposes. Radio Hall of Fame
Gallery Angel Harvey Radio Center: Every second Sunday of each month,
visitors can be audience to a classic radio re-creation Puppets, Pies,
and Prizes. Kids TV Chicago-Style: memorabilia from shows like
Bozo's Circus, Super Circus, and Romper Room.
Chicago
http://www.chichildrensmuseum.org/
-- Chicago Children's Museum
http://www.chicagokids.com/
-- Chicago Kids Dot Com (a resource of activities for families in the
Chicago area)
http://www.ravinia.org/learning/outreach.cfm
-- Ravinia's outreach programs
http://www.street-level.org
-- Street-Level Youth Media ((looks really cool))
http://www.terramuseum.org/education/index.html
-- Terra Museum of American Art's Education Department
http://www.museum.tv/index.shtml
-- Museum of Broadcast Communications
The DuSable Museum of African American History
http://www.dusablemuseum.org/
Located in Chicago. Teamed with the Coca-Cola company to start the Children's
Penny Cinema, which shows kid-oriented films Saturday mornings in the
summer for a mere penny (adults not admitted unless accompanied by a child
(see more about the program here: http://www.dusablemuseum.org/pennytheatre/
). The museum seems to work a great deal with local schools. The website
has a virtual plethora of information about educational exhibits that
teachers can work into their lesson plans, is capable of teleconferencing
and providing distance learning materials, and has a couple dozen good
educational resource links. The website is a bit difficult to navigate
and the design's not really flashy, but there's lots of worthwhile information
to be found if you're patient.
Art Discovery
http://www.artdiscovery.org
A program in Chicago that teams up local educators with local art institutions
(museums, theaters, whatever) to educate kids about art and help them
develop artistic creativity. The program brings students out into the
community, comes to into their classrooms, and works together with their
teachers to accomplish this. It runs multi-week programs for grades Pre-K
through 12, matching each specific classroom with any of 20 different
partner organizations dance companies, theatres, art museums, children’s
museums, motion picture museums, orchestras, music groups, etc depending
on the age level and interests of the kids. The website's got a wonderful
search engine, which is good, cause it's also got the internet equivalent
of tons of information: a calendar of events encompassing most of 2002,
sample lesson plans, pre-planned program listing, links to and info on
partner organizations it even has a bulletin board in case educators want
to talk to each other about their experiences with the program. The site
was especially useful because it linked me to so many other cool places
in a slick yet functional way.
Indianapolis Children's Museum
Indianapolis
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston
www.mfa.org
Boston Children's Museum
Boston
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis
www.walkerart.org
Guggenheim Museum
New York
www.guggenheim.org
International Center of Photography
New York
www.icp.org
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
www.metmuseum.org
Museum of Modern Art
New York
www.moma.org
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia
www.philamuseum.org
Please Touch Museum
http://www.pleasetouchmuseum.org/
Located in Philadelphia, PA, and designed for children seven years and
younger. The museum hosts community programs, outreach programs, historic
collections, rentable mini-exhibits (called Traveling Trunks), and teacher
training workshops. The website's cute, fairly easy to navigate and creative,
with one section for kids (which is unfinished) and one for adults, but
slightly lacking in detailed information.
Current exhibits:
Sendack, Science Park, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Move It!, Story
Garden, Barnyard Babies, The Supermarket, and Me on TV!
Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston
www.camh.org
The Children's Museum of Houston: http://www.cmhouston.org/
Contains, in collaboration with the Houston Public Library, the Parent
Resource Library: a library of material concerning children's issues from
potty training to racial issues to coping with learning disabilities.
The Parent Resource Library is designed to be kid-friendly, too; all of
the adult research material is contained on upper shelves, with the lower
shelves reserved for children's books and toys.
Permanent exhibits:
PG&E Coorporation EcoStation; an outdoor, hands-on exhibit concerning
envirornmental issues and Houston's ecosystems. Kids can make crafts (birdfeeders,
nature journals, etc.), observe insects and plants, see puppet shows,
etc.
Think Tank; optical illusions, puzzles, word/number games Yalalag,
A Mountain Village in Mexico; a replica of an actual villiage in Mexico;
kids can learn about the food, transportation, family structure, and language.
Periodic fiestas with live mariachi, crafts, and celebrations.
How Does It Work?; application of the scientific method through
studies in light, the workings of cars, portable telephones, and basic
physics.
Bubble Lab; Pretty self-explanatory: kids + bubbles = fun mess
that's easily cleaned up. Kids can make giant bubbles, tiny bubbles, paint
with bubble soap, and learn about the physics of bubbles.
Tot*Spot ; toys, activities, and play area for younger kids (birth;
3 years of age)
KID-TV; learn about television news production Farm to Market;
food production and practice grocery shopping Cyber Clubhouse; computer
activities Expressions; paint, clay, and computer art John P. McGovern
Kids's Hall art exhibits from children across the world, and Junktion,
a series of craft activities joined together to form a train. Red Caboose;
trains Victorian Playhouse Babbling Bayou; water exploration Brown Foundation
Inc.
Auditorium; host to performers from around the world every weekend
The museum generally has three or four traveling exhibits, too.
The website is easy to get around, but not particularly easy on the eyes.
It hosts a detailed calendar of events, information about employment and
volunteer opportunities, a riddle of the week, and pictures from recent
museum events
Shelburne Museum
Shelburne
http://www.shelburnemuseum.org/
| Other Programs across the USA |
http://www.aep-arts.org/ -- Arts
Education Partnership
http://www.childrensmuseums.org/
-- Association of Children's Museums Articles
http://www.child.com/living_in_style/travel/top10_museums.jsp?page=1
-- Child Magazine's 10 Best Children's Museums
http://local.msn.com/special/fall/childrensmuseums.asp
-- MSN.com's 10 Best Children's Museums
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