Welcome to the new face of children\u2019s museums in the United States. Once venues for younger children that provided rainy-day entertainment through exhibits and a scattering of hands-on activities, they\u2019re expanding their scope by offering a breadth of learning and support for a broader age group. The most prominent examples include teaching concepts around STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and STEAM (which includes arts), opening spaces dedicated to teenagers and helping with communication\u00a0skills and mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Children\u2019s museums also were focused on a younger age group \u2014 infants to 8-year-olds, Mr. Affleck said. \u201cThe shift to creating more meaningful experiences began in the last decade,\u201d he said,\u00a0\u201cwith the most significant changes happening in the wake of the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KidSTREAM Children\u2019s Museum, in Camarillo, Calif., near Malibu, opening late this year, has STREAM in its name as an acronym for science, technology, reading, engineering, arts and math, said the\u00a0executive director, Michael Shanklin. \u201cOur goal is to ingrain these concepts in children\u2019s lives in creative ways,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Source:<\/strong> Vora, S. (2023, April 27). Children\u2019s museums\u00a0are growing intellectually and emotionally<\/em>. The New York Times. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/27\/arts\/design\/childrens-museums.html?searchResultPosition=6<\/p>\n\n\n\n Analysis:<\/strong> The road to hell is paved with good intentions. That is what I thought reading this article. The collective of kids’ science museums may be trying to get more mature and cover more topics that affect current children, but I think they personally shot themselves in the foot. It’s difficult to boast that they cater to children from toddlers to teens when you have to make all the exhibits accessible to anyone, which means working from the lowest common denominator. I think that there is something vital missing the mark for teens and older kids to be treated with more respect than a coloring book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to the new face of children\u2019s museums in the United States. Once venues for younger children that provided rainy-day entertainment through exhibits and a scattering of hands-on activities, they\u2019re expanding their scope by offering a breadth of learning and support for a broader age group. The most prominent examples include teaching concepts around STEM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":15444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15445,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15443\/revisions\/15445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}