Thursday, April 9, 2009

Exploratorium

I went to the Exploratorium several times as a kid and have fond memories of driving down to San Fran, walking around Fisherman’s Wharf and going to the Exploratorium. So, for this trip to California, I had to take Christopher to experience some little bits from my childhood and it was so fun seeing it again through his eyes.
He LOVED the Exploratorium. He RAN from exhibit to exhibit touching and playing (the museum is interactive) with everything. I loved seeing how excited he got making a tornado, listening with bat-like ears, trying to walk across the pebbles when the decibel meter was seeing how quiet he could be, looking at the developing chickens and going in the weird shaped house that I remember from my trips.
Not sure that he learned a lot, I tried to read to him what the exhibits were about, but he was more interested in seeing how they worked and doing things and then running full speed to the next exhibit.
Here he is enjoying the Exploratorium of San Francisco.


Diverting Water (This was one of the biggest hits, isn't water usually though?):
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Playing with Black Sand and a Magnet, I loved this as a kid:
Black Sand Magnet
C and Brian listening with Bat Ears:
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The funky shaped room, they loved looking tall:
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Uncle Ronnie, Brian and C, I think making fog:
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Oh, and did I mention the Exploratorium is right down the street from the Golden Gate bridge? Pictures to follow later.

1 comment:

TP said...

That picture of the funky-shaped room makes me a little dizzy.