![]() Some are great! Others are… well… your kids won’t like them.ĭon’t worry, we’ve created our own resources to help you as you bravely set forth to culture-ize your kids. Many of them are specifically geared toward kids. However, pretty much every art museum has an education/outreach department that will have great resources. At first glance you may think art museums are not built for children. We’re going to help you have FUN at the art museum.įirst off, kids can have a blast at art museums. So don’t get intimidated by the prospect. I wish I had known that the beautiful cultured experience I was looking for was totally attainable. So, here is what I wish I’d known years ago. All too often that’s how parenting works. However, from the ashes of that experience I learned how to repair my mistakes and actually have a great experience. My patience ran out when my children all tried to go different directions while I was trying to have a quiet moment with a favorite Van Gogh painting. Their attention spans ran out in the first 15 minutes of looking at paintings they didn’t care about. Their feet wore out walking from the car to the gallery. But I was determined to give my kids some CULTURE, or burst into flames trying.Īs you might have guessed, it was a disaster. Yes, it was on such a day that I was going to attempt to walk the hallowed halls of the National Gallery of Art with my four children who were all under the age of nine. I saw sparrows burst into flames mid-flight and then melt into a puddle of feathers. ![]() It was around 250 degrees and 3,000% humidity. ![]() ![]() It was July and we were in packed traffic trying to find a parking spot in Washington DC at the height of tourist season. ![]()
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