This museum rawked...hard. I had seen this place mentioned in a number of Baltimore mommy blogs and put it on my mental list of places to take the kidlets. And boy am I glad we did. It's on the pricier side, $12.95 admission for adults, kids under 2 free and $13 parking but oh-so worth it. In fact, they offer memberships starting at $99 (for family of 4) and we're thinking of getting one.
Why so cool? The exhibits have a learning element to them yet are designed to be lots of fun for the kids. For example, our favorite was the Wonders of Water permanent exhibit. The cuteness was overwhelming. You walk in and there are little raincoats and rubber shoes for kids to put on. We had dressed Pig in a fast-drying thin romper and her yellow crocs so we decided to forego the outerwear, besides, there's also a drying wall (think: whole wall of those bathroom handdryers). Pig went crazy over the plumbing section. There was an elevated area with what looked like small sprinkler heads trickling water embedded in the ground. Pig and K got busy afixing pieces of plastic pipe onto them and creating enough water pressure to move the water about. I was busy trying to keep Pig from using these pipes as her personal drinking fountain.
Carrying Moo and maneuvering the stroller, I had a hard time keeping up with Pig and K who were running from exhibit to exhibit at the frenetic speed that a toddler amazingly is able to achieve. Pig and K floved the huge climbing er, thing in the center of the museum:
Needless to say, I was really nervous about them climbing this contraption. Luckily there weren't many kids at that time so Pig and K were able to take their time going up and down the climbing net tubes.
All in all, this museum gets two hooves up from The Barnyard and we will definitely go back soon.
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