You do not believe in your eyes! How did this amazing little charm escape the worldwide attention and praise?
Well, you will not believe in your eyes, indeed it is. And I think that this is exactly how it escaped from something like evaluation.
Some of you have visited the so-called 'Children's Hall' country. Wikipedia defines them as "institutions providing exhibits and programs that stimulate children's informal learning experiences", but in contrast to traditional museums, children's museums are by children.
Some of these museums are vividly wounded. I am convinced that in my hometown Indianapolis I will be poisoned by the fact that I grew up with one of the largest, oldest and most respected children's museum in the United States. The children's museum in Indianapolis is a truly wonderful experience. It is a science of the fifth floor and a historical exhibit, and there are various events and events. When I am 36 years old, I am enjoying today like a child's era.
On the second day of my vacation at Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, I took several hours to kill with my 4 - year - old son, my son and my wife were doing different work. While trying to find some good attractions here for young viewers, I found the website of The Children 's Museum in South Carolina. I grew up at a child's museum, which seemed like a plan.
We only ran about 12 miles. It was only me that enjoyed a pleasant holiday with me. It taught us that we are heading for a fun place.
I began to have doubts as I approached the accused place. There are several signs, signs, brochures and advertisements in all the sightseeing spots in this town. I have never seen anything at The Children 's Museum in South Carolina. In fact, I had to deeply dig deep in the web to find it. It was not listed in search of the most basic attraction of the Myrtle Beach area. Very strange.
When I told mine that my convenient little Magellan GPS arrived at me, there was nothing. In order to see if there is something I can do with it, I peep twice away from the road and do a bulldo back and forth. After pulling back behind the roped, empty parking lot, we came to a small building that looks like two store strip malls. One store was Office Depot. The other was a child museum in South Africa. Uh oh. Not because of location but because office depot was bigger than museum. But that's okay. We are deceived by what seems to be very simple, flat and small outside, many times. A lot of time, is that so? Even if I walked through the main entrance, I did not relieve anxiety. It was too late. With the eyes of my son, we have already arrived at "a fun place" and we were dedicated.
At $ 7.00 per person, we plunged because he was a reasonable investment to maintain employment and make me happy while I guess. It was the first two minutes after payment that I decided to enter another door leading to the office depot in the afternoon, so I noticed that I was providing more fun and excitement. This is probably an unusable observation, because I generally visit the Office Depot, while my 4 year old son is not generally.
My first impression of the place was that it was not so badly dirty. I would not say exactly that any stretch of imagination is "pretty", but it was not covered with dirt. Everything was old and in a state of devastation. It certainly was smaller than the office depot. It contained various exhibits that you can find by sitting on the back shelf of old kindergarten classrooms.
One of the first "big" attractions was the Magic Sc hool Bus. This is a plywood structure painted in yellow. There was a huge old steering wheel on the front, and you could turn it if you were sitting in the "driver's seat". There was TV and VCR in front of the bus. The TV itself is different from me in the past 20 years. Indeed, it was the youngest generation of cable lady TV appearance to the mid-1980s model. The program displayed on it was a misoperation due to some animation of children mischiefing by driving a bus. Avoid animals on the road, fly to space, etc ... Of course, for safety, there was a sign that asked the visitor "Please do not touch the video."
Outside the magical bus there were exhibits of space and astronomy. One of them was a table two feet wide, and above that there was really fine sand. This was an exhibit of "something like the moon". At the moment, if the exact words of some of these signs are incorrect, the museum's good owners need to forgive. It was obvious that we also seemed to actually be walking the moon. Because the gray sand which was crushed finely from the table was also generously scattered around the floor around it.
Next, in the space science section, there was an exhibition "What is your age like the other world"? Have you seen a similar exhibit in other places? Unlike most of the passive exhibits you might enter your age and indicate that your age is on Mars, this was very interactive. What fixed it to the wall was one of the big button calculator. In fact, I seemed to have a problem of consistently misplacing her standard calculator, so I bought the exact same model for my boss as last year's gag gift of Christmas Did. On the wall there is a calculation that the children need to do to answer the questions of the exhibition. You typed your age in the calculator and did your math yourself to get whether your age will be Jupiter. Of course your age is your age, which is related to the length of the orbit of the planet around the sun, but it is too much science for children's museums.
It is so in the space science section. In some places in the museum there was a PC set up to run a very simplified educational program. With an interactive flash game, you can click on things and see the animation that follows. Most of these programs may be purchased at discount racks at closed-out stores. I point out that the metal folding chair that you sit to use those programs was in very good condition.
Do not pinch the intestines of children, invisible to the human eye. It's a bare electrical outlet next door!
By this time, I was simply overflowing with the class, organization, cleanliness or a lack of fun in this place. The biggest exhibition was a huge train / car diorama that clearly made something truly clean, if it goes well. There was an electric switch, there was also a main switch to activate it. I did not do any of it. It certainly was worth the admission that it was going well.
In further examination, the Kid Medical Center was in one corner. There was a Gurney. There was a large metal appliance which can not be fully explained on the swing arm on the old dental chair. There was a wooden booth in front of the medical center. As with advice, peanut Lucy shows you to use as a business place. It was like a receptionist.
At the medical center there was a massive melt outline of a human being hanging on a wall that could attach a small stuffed human organ to Velcro. There was no actual guide on what is right or wrong or something is going on, but it was fun to invert the esophagus and move between the thighs of the patient. Yes, I am a 36 year old body, but I did not miss junior high school mentally.
So most fun things can hardly bear it. Totally tubular!
Outside the medical center, you were able to fully experience the tubular magic! [Exclamation point added by me to emphasize the exclusion of the exhibition]. Tubular was completely exhibited considerably. They obviously visited the Home Depot and picked up about 12 PVC tubes and joint connectors. I believe that this exhibition instruction "Please look at the type of structure you can build". We built for about 3 minutes 30 seconds.
Of course, science gorgeous artists will be perfect without paying respect to the old David Letterman routine "It is a float, which was entitled" Sink or Swimming "and among them There is a small plastic bathtub with water and plastic toys around it and you can get down directly into the bathtub and the universal questions people ask When you see small objects, Whether this thing is floating or not?
Other exhibits of interest:
Golf ball Thingy: I am fortunate if I could remember this name. It was three pieces of painted wood with grooves. You placed the golf ball in the groove and lifted the tree at an angle to see rolling off the ball and putting it in the hole in the lower table.
Papa John 's science of Pizza: Another plywood structure that was Papa John' s Delivery Truck like the Magic Sc Hool Bus. Correctly, Papa John was a small play toaster oven with several different sized plastic pizzas placed behind the driver's seat on the truck bed, so the pizza behind the truck Prepare for cooking and I was able to pass the top to the driver.
Wash the rock: Perhaps I am convinced that this was probably the most educational exhibition hall, but I had to pay an additional fee of 3 dollars for it, so I had the other children in the bathroom.
Discovery Center: There were several exotic animals in the cage. A couple of turtles, a couple of chinchillas, and a sad "rabbit I am rather testing mascara" is a rabbit in appearance.
Bubble Hoop: Here we step into the middle of a hula hoop suspended in a pulley and drop the hoop in the center of the soapy water tap that surrounds the hoop. If you dropped the hula hoop slowly, it was surrounded by huge soap bubbles popping up after a few seconds. It was definitely acknowledged clearly with split-second type of fun type.
Something wonderful event that you drop the ball to see something: This wonderful exhibit was out of order. This is obviously because the children brought the balls elsewhere in the museum and lost them.
Another touch of a remarkable class was a vinyl cushion vinyl bench seat. I do not know if it was an exhibition or just sitting. However, the vinyl cover's lip was skillfully repaired with black electric tape lovingly.
There were several others in the museum when I was there. Each of them seemed to have the same wonderful appearance as I did with what I witnessed. No other parents or guardians I saw there seemed to have been on a "return" visit to this place.
A woman was working hard on her laptop in a corner of a child's playground. Perhaps because the entrance fee for her and her child was worth it, she could do a couple of jobs and let her child run freely in places that are considered to be somewhat safe It was. At least they could not get out easily. Even if the museum staff did not see it, there was no doubt that the face sank in the bathtub of "Sink or Float".
Play area / evacuation path
For me, resistance was not a piece of work, but a playground for children. It was a standard "play" section of several infant toys and such a couple of Mashimat and the table (which was a woman of the aforementioned laptop sitting on this mat now this bonus). Well, that is not the playground in question, the emergency exit is in the middle of a playfield a few feet away from mats and toddlers toys. Yes, without taking anything beyond steps, children can go from a plastic toy or somersault table to a door with a big red push handle warning that "ALARM WILL SOUND" will be pressed. I did not dare ask how many alarms actually went to the moon due to this genius arrangement.
Well, my plan was to summarize this whole visit rather malignant. I actually purchased several items from the gift stand before departing in commemoration of this trip. I really wanted to rip it. Although the effort to do this was completely lacking, the appearance of the class was amazing. Efforts to make exhibits have a little air of purpose, or educational content is the best. It was basically a large, well-kept child's playground. But the day after the visit I saw going further a way talking about something about the "future home" of the new South Carolina Children 's Museum.
Take it all! The main floor of the museum is here! I felt somewhat sick of thinking very strongly about this place at this point. My wife thought that I needed to raise 14 million dollars or talking about the need to build a new one, so I thought that I had heard something.
After thinking about this for a while, I did not feel guilty. If I were a member paying taxes for this community, I did not know there was nothing in the group that built and maintained it, but in order to build a new child museum here I did not donate a one-off to him. , Do not mind, even if you actually halve this thing, there are no worthy attempts to put in this place. Even if there are one or two people with a heart, it is completely hindered by those who are told that "throwing a lot of toys in a big room and looking at the amount we can collect" I will. I have never walked around from this place, even if someone in the official concerned or attempted to make valuable things.
Please give yourself a benefit. If you are visiting Myrtle Beach, please do not go to this place anywhere in South Carolina. If you live in a community and want to build a new child museum here, please find out what the people planning it are doing and find out where it is. Please tell me how the new museum is comparable to other children's museums throughout the country, not necessarily the size, but at least about the quality and kind of exhibits. Even smaller ones actually have quite good things and are doing their utmost to make the most of what they have.
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