Children's Museums in Massachusetts - Boston Children's Museum, the Discovery Museums, Children's Museum in Easton (Paperback)

Chapters: Boston Children's Museum, the Discovery Museums, Children's Museum in Easton. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: South StationCourthouse Station MBTA boat routes F1, F2, F2HBoston Children's Museum is a children's museum in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the education of children. Located on Children's Wharf along the Fort Point Channel, Boston Children's Museum is the second oldest children's museum in the United States. It contains many activities meant to both amuse and educate young children. The idea for a childrens museum in Boston developed in 1909 when several local science teachers founded the Science Teachers Bureau. One of the Bureaus main goals was to create a museum: "it is planned to inaugurate at the same place, a Museum, local in its nature and to contain besides the natural objects, books, pictures, charts, lantern slides, etc., whatever else is helpful in the science work of the Grammar, High and Normal Schools. The specimens are to be attractively arranged and classified and the room open daily to children or anyone interested in such work." The Womens Education Association also helped the Science Teachers Bureau with the planning for the childrens museum in Boston. After four years of planning, The Childrens Museum officially opened on August 1, 1913, at the Pinebank Mansion located along Jamaica Pond in Olmsted Park in Bostons Jamaica Plain neighborhood. It is the second oldest children's museum in the United States. The first museum contained two cases: one devoted to birds and the other to minerals and shells. The exhibits were kept at childrens eye level, used simple language, and complemented the lessons taught in school. George H. Barton served as the museums first president. During the early years of the ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=334847