Hello, rather awesome Australian Museum…
- Rockstar probably wishing he could play with the exhibits…
- Be careful what you wish for… (yes it’s a jailcell)
We didn’t really know what to expect, so were expecting something like San Francisco’s Zeum. It really wasn’t, though there was a children’s area… I liked the animal bones exhibit… Rockstar liked running around the animal bones exhibit…
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- Caught In The Act: Kings on his Berry again…
- And again…
Who’m I kidding, Rockstar liked running around the entire museum, we took turns watching him (and answering umpteen What’s This Fors and How Comes) while browsing the exhibits…
- Former PM Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Indigenous people
- Some of the art speaking out…
They have a bunch of interviews and art done by the “Stolen Generations”… I learnt something… Kings got called away for some work thing when we were done browsing this floor, if you didn’t guess by him being on the Berry – but lemme finish putting up a few more pics from this floor and pretend this counts as blogging…
- Here’s another…
Then we move to the kiddie section, and – Kings leaves to run about in this neighborhood getting something printed, signed, and Fedex-ed while we entertain ourselves here, catching up to us in the the museum gift shop
- Rockstar trying to stop me taking another pic at entrance to kids’ section
- Then getting absorbed in all the animal-themed games…
It’s quite crowded (most of the booths are occupied) but I find it strangely quiet, everyone is supervising their kids erm discreetly, and even when the kids run about I don’t hear a single shrieker in their midst. Not even loud “outdoor voices.” As if influenced by the atmosphere, Rockstar behaves the same. Hmm.
- Him looking at the lines and hairs on his hand under a microscope. Then bugs. Yechh.
In the gift shop, which I think is brilliant if slightly chaotic with older kids all over the store exploring the merchandise, I get a little worried Rockstar might get run over by a couple dueling about-5-year-olds, clacking those long plastic “grabber” arms operated by squeezing a lever… Needn’t have worried though, they maneuver around him like pros… Actually all the kids going nuts in the store don’t so much as brush into him..
Beside us, an elderly man purchases a genuine fish fossil… I’m tempted to get the one next to it for AUD 66, but Rockstar isn’t very interested <disappointed> I haven’t explained fossils yet 🙁 (He picks an animal join-the-numbers book, Aussie animal playing cards, and two sets of animal picture slides. (I add a little plastic microscope).
Hurried shot along the streets in the drizzle as Kings speedwalks off with Rockstar on his shoulders
You would’ve thought after all this Rockstar would crash right, but he doesn’t…
We found San Francisco’s Zeum vs The Australian Museum (kiddie section especially) worlds apart; while the former features a lot of technology – kids playing against a green backdrop which computers then superimpose a deep sea scenery or matrix-ish code, the latter emphasizes nature – plants, animals…..
All the while I thought children will get bored very quickly in museums but looking at your photos above, Rockstar enjoyed this museum visit. He looked so deep in thought looking at his hand under the microscope.
He was running around too… But I think when they start to attend Kindy they sit still more, they had a field trip last year where the kids were given magnifying glasses halfway through in the botanical gardens and can see they are all quite into doing it..