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posted by Savanah on Jan 21

Traveling with kids?  In many cities, it sometimes seems that there’s a lot for adults to do, but not that much for children.  I’ve been noting a trend, though, that increasingly cities have children’s museums, designed specifically for the young, and a perfect place for a family on the road.  If you’re stopping at hotels in Lafayette, LA, for example, you’ll want to check out their Children’s Museum of Acadiana,  which has a slogan of “Learning by Doing.”

 
Exhibits at the museum include a variety of learning opportunities for kids, such as the health-focused All About Me, which allows kids to role play doctoring, complete with X-Rays (simulated, I’m sure), and babies to weigh and monitor.  The All About Me area includes Geo-Fitness exercise mats, providing kids to combine motion with geography, dancing along to videos.  Many of the exhibits here have a health theme: Healthy Pet Hospitals, Food Pyramid, and To Tell the Tooth (a dental exhibit). 
 
There are a number of other exhibits designed to teach kids about the real world: Kid’s Cash, a banking exhibit; Kid’s Kondo, a toddler playhouse; a Ham Radio Station; Petit Magasin, a grocery store; Reuseum, a recycled arts studio; and Bubble Factory.  In the latter exhibit kids can make gigantic bubbles using the Children’s Museum recipe for bubble; they can even get inside a small tower that allows them to surround themselves by one immense bubble.  In Cafe des Enfants, kids can “work” in a hands-on restaurant exhibit, where they can act as customers or cooks or servers. 
 
Increasingly, cities have Children’s Museums, from the Explorium of Lexington, KY, to the Children’s Museum and Theater of Maine, to the Children’s Center for Science and Technology in Youngstown, Ohio.  Wherever you’re headed, from Lafayette to Hollywood, you can check out these museums at the Association of Children’s Museum,  and plan your trip accordingly!