Two Museum’s Childrens Art Spaces

Last week when Anna was showing me photos from her recent visit to the Baltimore children’s museum, I realized I’d never posted the photos I took of the children’s spaces at the museums I went to during our January Rushmer Christmas trip.

Rushmer Christmas was in Birmingham this year so we added a trip to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta to see their outsider art collection. Of course  I had to check out the children’s spaces too. The Greene Family Learning Gallery for infants to eight year olds has “two distinct spaces for creative play that combine cutting edge technology with hands on activities”

According to their web site Create is “an open studio centered on creative process and devoted to developing young visitors art-making abilities.”

The Paul Klee quote leads to one of the technological experiences.

And one of the pieces from their collection “Peekaboo” by Nabil Nahas inspired one of the hands on activities.

It reminded me of the CCM Young Artist Program chandelier project. I’ve never seen the handy built in trays before though.

Across the hall was Experience: “a deeply immersive gallery that enables visitors to explore what art means, how it feels, and where it can take us”

The next day we went to the Birmingham Museum of Art and to Art Venture and its “15 hands-on learning stations for toddlers to tweens”.

The Sonat Gallery offers opportunities for crawlers and toddlers to explore light, color and texture.

The Hess Gallery aims to “inspire a love of making” for 5 – 12 year olds and has activities including a maker space and a stop motion tech station.

Quite the spaces!