It’s hard to pry children from their smart phones, tablets and other digital devices these days, but a trip to a Miami museum not only has educational benefits but can be fun for adults and children alike. So the next time you’re looking for fun things to do in Miami, tell the children to power down and take them out to a museum.
Encourage curiosity
Exhibits in a museum can help children start to make sense of the world around them. For an example, a guided planetarium show can stimulate a child’s interest in stargazing, and seeing fish in an aquarium at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science may spark curious thoughts about the actual aquatic life on the Florida coast. While there are many fun things to do in Miami, a visit to the museum may turn your child into a future scientist.
Get interactive
Today’s museums offer interactive exhibits that even children with short attention spans get into. For example, kids can try to put together a scale-model bridge based on one of Leonardo da Vinci’s designs or race around the museum in an educational scavenger hunt. In many museums, the days of do-not-touch are long gone, you just have to seek them out. Museums give children a sense of where we’ve come from as a society and where we could be heading.