Children's museum

A children's museum is a " Welterforschungsort ", which is tailored to the needs of children. Children's Museums are increasingly founded since the 1990s in many countries and coordinated among museum educational criteria specific to the target group of children and adolescents. Most children's museums are devoted to specific topics and provide further age group- differentiated guided tours. Here are concepts such as learning by doing and Hands on to German: learning by trial and comprehension, to application. Unlike in most other museums touching is not only allowed but encouraged.

The aim is to awaken the curiosity and creativity of children, but also an interest in technology, history, society and much more.

In part also maintain conventional museums own departments for children. In contrast to normal Museum Children's Museums are given the knowledge and not the archiving and cataloging. " Children's Museums for adults" (and children) are the so-called Science Center.

History

The beginning of this specially created for children's museums goes back to the year 1899. On December 16, opened William Henry Goodyear, director of the art collection of the " Central Museum ", the doors of the world's first children's museum, the "Brooklyn Children's Museum " in Brooklyn, New York. From the beginning, it was important to him to give to the children of Brooklyn and Queens a place where they should feel that it was created specifically for them and the part of their interests, their passions, needs and desires and should be encouraged.

The "Brooklyn Children's Museum " did not long remain the only children's museum in the United States. In 1913, the second Children's Museum, which was founded " Boston Children's Museum ," and only four years later in the U.S. state of Michigan, the "Detroit Children's Museum ".

Similar projects and examples

At universities and colleges, the model of the Children's University is designed to teach children the science simple and understandable.

For Landesmuseum Württemberg ( Stuttgart) heard the boy castle. The Children's Museum in Stuttgart, which is since October 2009 the former administrative offices on the third floor in the building. It will be a cultural experience destination for four -to ten- year-old children and their families. On about 300 m² resulting exhibition area, which is supplemented by workshop rooms and a kitchen, and a journey through the country's history of Baden- Württemberg offers. The focus of the exhibition start Mysterious Wunderkammer. Treasure hunt in the boys castle is a ducal Wunderkammer of the Renaissance. Hands-on elements, original objects and other interactive switch planes urge to join in and try out. The playful implementation of history and culture is past come alive and so awakens fun at the museum visit.

The Children's Museum is one of the Children's Council, a group of children aged eight, who brings his ideas of a museum for children every two months. Together with the Children's Council important topics are discussed, the results are considered in the planning of the children's museum.

In Bern, the orthopedic surgeon and implant developer Maurice Edmond Müller founded the Creaviva as part of the monographic museum Zentrum Paul Klee. Purpose of the museum is to enable children, youth and adults in the way of practical art education access to art and culture. In the center of the activities and services of the Children's Museum opened in 2005 Creaviva is therefore not the collection or exhibition of art, but teaching in workshops, studios, and interactive guides. Here, Creaviva refers to the design of his offers to the works, techniques, and ideas of Paul Klee.