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New York Times – Digital Field Trips: Museum Adventures Abound for Kids
06/18/2020
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Cultural institutions are finding creative ways to engage young visitors virtually this summer, and many of the offerings are free.
Laurel Graeber | June 18, 2020
Museums have become extraordinarily creative in throwing open their virtual doors to young people still on lockdown. Educators are providing at-home opportunities to emulate renowned artists, go on odysseys to the stars, collaboratively create a picture book on women’s history and even chill out with a skink. Here’s a selection of offerings, many of them free.
Children’s Museums
Almost as soon as quarantine began, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan instituted CMOM at Home, a daily series with themes — from Magical Monday to Surprise Sunday — and related projects and videos. The over 80 selections now online include instructions for doing a dinosaur march with the musician Laurie Berkner and saying hello in multiple languages with the organization Callaloo Kids.
“We’re showing the world to children every day — different ways of cooking or dancing or talking,” said Leslie Bushara, the museum’s deputy director for education and exhibitions. The CMOM at Home on June 28 will celebrate Pride with the band Queer Kids and a rainbow-wand art project. A later episode will focus on the artist Delano Dunn. “It will be an activity where children can explore racial identity,” Ms. Bushara said.
