Children's Museum of Manhattan
Children's Museum of Manhattan
While visiting all of the museums and art galleries in New York City don't over look the Children's Museum of Manhattan. Your children will thank you for it, you too will feel like a child again! This museum was founded in 1973, and involves children and parents in learining through interactive exhibits and educational programs.
It also inspires both children and families to learn about themselves as well as the culteral diversity in the world through the arts, literacy, media, and communications, science and the environment. This is a great place where children will learn new and exciting things that they can use in their lives now and as they grow.
There are many fun and exciting exhibits as well as activity centers throughout the museum, such as the Urban Tree House. It incorporates the fun of an outdoor play area combined with three stories of interactive displays with activities based on Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rethink. Your children can become involved with hands on experience with music and instruments. The Time-Warner Media Center gives children real hands on learning at becoming newscasters, camera operators, actors, and animators while making their own videos.
The museum has close ties to New York Public Schools, corporate funders and the mainstream art world, this huge museum is bigger, slicker and filled with more children then most other children's museums. You will find quite expensive, hi-tech interactive exhibitions focused on children's books, and visual arts for the parents.
Things change frequently, as the Children's Museum of Manhattan chooses to rotate exhibits. Things usually change every one or two years on the first and second floor main attractions, and the fourth floor and lower exhibitions will change every three to six months. Keeping it all fresh and always new and different.
Other useful information for the visitor:
The recommended age group for this museum is ages 1 through 12.
Admission:
$8 for children and adults; $5 for seniors; free for children under one year of age and members.
Hours of operation:
Mid Sep-Jun: Mon-Tue, closed; Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm
Jun-Mid Sep: Mon, closed; Tue-Sun 10am-5pm
While visiting all of the museums and art galleries in New York City don't over look the Children's Museum of Manhattan. Your children will thank you for it, you too will feel like a child again! This museum was founded in 1973, and involves children and parents in learining through interactive exhibits and educational programs.
It also inspires both children and families to learn about themselves as well as the culteral diversity in the world through the arts, literacy, media, and communications, science and the environment. This is a great place where children will learn new and exciting things that they can use in their lives now and as they grow.
There are many fun and exciting exhibits as well as activity centers throughout the museum, such as the Urban Tree House. It incorporates the fun of an outdoor play area combined with three stories of interactive displays with activities based on Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rethink. Your children can become involved with hands on experience with music and instruments. The Time-Warner Media Center gives children real hands on learning at becoming newscasters, camera operators, actors, and animators while making their own videos.
The museum has close ties to New York Public Schools, corporate funders and the mainstream art world, this huge museum is bigger, slicker and filled with more children then most other children's museums. You will find quite expensive, hi-tech interactive exhibitions focused on children's books, and visual arts for the parents.
Things change frequently, as the Children's Museum of Manhattan chooses to rotate exhibits. Things usually change every one or two years on the first and second floor main attractions, and the fourth floor and lower exhibitions will change every three to six months. Keeping it all fresh and always new and different.
Other useful information for the visitor:
The recommended age group for this museum is ages 1 through 12.
Admission:
$8 for children and adults; $5 for seniors; free for children under one year of age and members.
Hours of operation:
Mid Sep-Jun: Mon-Tue, closed; Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm
Jun-Mid Sep: Mon, closed; Tue-Sun 10am-5pm
