I’m posting early today for Pass the Torch Tuesday, and sharing another way I’m trying to pass the torch — by learning history, together with my kids. My comments are in italics.
***D’s Guest Post***
(Here is the new and the old.)
Yesterday we went to the Mill City Museum in Minnesota. We went to many places in that cool building with a scavenger hunt in our hands. We went into their own old boxcar station and saw a boxcar.
We played with play dough pretending it was cookie dough and cookie cut it with cutters after rolling it out with rolling pins in their kitchen.
We learned women cooked food and men ate it. It took three hours to wash all the dishes.
We went on this cool elevator and to look through a place called a flour tower. It was fun except a part when they showed it blowing up and a belt waving all over the place.
We invented cereal boxes with Velcro stuff.
We also did some fun puzzles that you built miniature bridges over flowing “rivers.”
We controlled gates and things so we could learn about waterpower and how you can get it to work. That was probably the best part.
(View of the dam and St. Anthony from the observation deck, represented by the water exhibit inside.)
I also liked playing in the courtyard which was actually the burned down part of Mill City Museum. I counted all the remaining windows on the wall, and seven floors had been blown off.
I really enjoyed going there and I want to go there again some time.
Mom’s note: My sister-in-law told me about the Mill City Museum last year – she said it was a great experience for her girls, ages 7 and 10 at the time. And she was so right! I agree with D – Mill City Museum is a well-planned museum with many interactive opportunities for kids. The multi-media show held the audience in a freight elevator, while it took us to each level of the original flour mill, and showed period equipment, told stories from workers, and video. We purchased the Minnesota Historical Society family membership (coupons available at historical sites, for $5 off through June 30, 2007.)
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1:56 am
D, you made me want to visit this place.
except I want REAL cookies… not play dough, thanks!!!
I always wonder who stood in the old buildings –w ho worked there… and what happened to them ???
2:47 pm
Love the perspective and texture in your photos.
Mike
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8:12 am
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