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Museum Going
Emily Bazelon's writing on Slate has appealed to me for a long time (though I have an extra fondness for Dahlia Lithwick), and today Bazelon discusses taking her children on an extended museum jaunt and its relative success.
I actually love taking the children (mine are younger and easier to bully) to museums. They don't seem to mind what they see as long as they see it quickly and keep moving. There are exceptions, of course. Felix can remain transfixed in front of the elephants at the American Museum of Natural History for some time and hasn't yet become smitten with arms and armor the way that I was (see last week's entry on our trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art that turned bloody).
The key I think for museum trips with the toddler set is to keep them brief and this is difficult when one pays huge entrance fees and one wants to get one's money's worth. I don't have a solution for that, except to say that I have had good luck puttering my kids around Chelsea where they can see quick hits of art, form some opinion and then run down the broad streets without interfering too much with other pedestrians.
While part of my desire to art-ify my kids is selfish: I like it and I want to experience it with them, I have to say that looking at art is not a bad thing to have in one's bag of tricks on Days of Questionable Weather.
posted by Elise at 5:58 AM
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