Eileen Ogintz, Tribune Content Agency
The You, Me, We! exhibit at the Boston Children’s Museum encourages families to connect around questions of fairness, stereotyping and discrimination. Explore soil, leaves, veggies, worms and more at the Fenway Farms at Boston Children’s Museum, a replica of Fenway Park’s rooftop garden at the museum. Kids can learn about local plants and share their own gardening and food stories.
Check the association of children’s museums to find one near where you plan to visit. Your membership at your local children’s museum may get you in for free. And in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Children of Gettysburg 1863 explains the Civil War’s famous battle with activities and lessons focused on the children who were there. The museum is housed in the historic Rupp House where in 1863 John and Caroline Rupp lived with their six children. Find a place to hide during the battle, see what a soldier carried and more.
World Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, for example, lets kids play in kid-sized shops based on real ones in Brooklyn’s multicultural neighborhoods, helping them to better understand the importance of such diverse communities as they become storekeepers, bakers, shoppers, grocers and more. Put yourself in the shoes of a child who changed history or discover how you can become an “everyday superhero.”