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Re:Museums on prescription: Brussels tests cultural visits t... by dale_glass on Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:06AM (#32936062)
Children need museums that cater to them. Dragging a 6 year old into a building full of weird paintings or sculptures is a waste of time and only annoys the kid.

There are plenty museums full of cool stuff that's either interesting them, or can be played with, or are outdoors and can be handled as just a pleasant walk through a cool looking place.

Re:Museums on prescription: Brussels tests cultural visits t... by oboes on Thursday September 22, 2022 @08:20AM (#32937851)
There actually used to be a very interesting science museum in Brussels called Scientastic [1].

The museum was aimed at children and the exhibit consisted of many practical "magic tricks" illustrating some piece of science or technology. Things such as electromagnets, refraction effects, color theory, optical illusions, simple mechanical devices, simple chemistry experiments, etc. For example I remember first learning about the brachistochrone curve at this museum, even though I was too young at the time to know or care about its name. Or that you could use red cabbage juice as a natural pH indicator.

Unfortunately the museum never got much funding or interest from the government, and at some point the museum was destroyed (possibly illegally) to make room for a shopping mall.

[1] https://www.scientastic.com/EN/IntroE.htm

Re:Museums on prescription: Brussels tests cultural visits t... by bodge5000 on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:01AM (#32936818)
I remember going to the National Space Centre (there might be multiple in the UK, the one I remember was shaped like a giant white beehive) a lot as a kid. In fact, it seems to my memory that up until the age of ~14 every kids birthday was hosted there, and we never seemed to get bored of it.

Looking back on it, I find it funny that out of all the amazing things there (a full sized rocket, some kind of capsule you could actually sit in and play with the controls on), the thing that continually fascinated me the most was a little audio visualiser with a microphone, so when you spoke into it the line would deform.

Re:Museums on prescription: Brussels tests cultural visits t... by defaultwizard on Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:36AM (#32936243)
I think the science museum (also in London) is the perfect kind of museum for children. There's so many weird things that will interest the children in there.
Re:Museums on prescription: Brussels tests cultural visits t... by ben_w on Thursday September 22, 2022 @05:36AM (#32936650)
Absolutely; or at least, I have fond memories of it from the early 90s when I was a kid myself.