Taking the Kids: What's new at museums for families
The "Blast from the Past" exhibit at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, Virginia, is the place to see the role weapons played in the decisive battles of the American Revolution. Are you ready to enlist as a member of the Continental Army or make cartridges in the Continental Army encampment? Come the weekend of Oct. 20 for the Yorktown Victory Celebration and "A Weekend of Revolutionary Noise" with re-enactor encampments. "Blast from the Past" runs through Jan. 5, 2019.
Opening Sept. 1 and coinciding with the centennial of Armistice Day on Nov. 11, Seattle's Museum of History & Industry introduces WW1 America, which tells the extraordinary stories of Americans during those war years.
FUTURE AUTHORS and ILLUSTRATORS. They won't want to miss the Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic. The exhibit opens on Sept. 22 (through Jan. 6) at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, offering original drawings, letters and more explaining how the much-loved stories of Pooh and his friends came to be.
Through Sept. 9, those in Cincinnati can see the Make Way for Ducklings: The Art of Robert McCloskey, an exhibit of 100 original artworks and more from the classic children's tale.
And The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts, is hosting the first ever U.S. exhibition of Paddington Comes to America through Oct. 7, celebrating the Christmas Eve 60 years ago when Michael Bond spotted a lonely bear in a London shop, took it home to his wife, named it Paddington and began writing about the bear's adventures. Perhaps the most fun, the recreated double-decker bus that doubles as a reading area for young guests to learn more about the London sites featured in the Paddington stories.
Spend time in a museum with your kids this summer, and 20 years from now you might be able to remind them where they first got inspired toward their career.
Have fun!
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