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JAPAN & NATURE EXHIBIT

April 27 – June 13, 2010
(Produced by Brooklyn Children’s Museum)

This object-based interactive exhibit invites children and families to discover and explore how their counterparts in Japan celebrate and experience the natural environment. Organized around universal aspects of childhood—family, school, play, and holiday celebrations—the exhibit encourages investigations of how people living in Japan today understand nature through special seasonal and everyday environments and family activities. The exhibit features items collected from Japanese children and selected objects from the Museum’s collections.

CHILDREN OF HANGZHOU EXHIBIT

June 26 – September 5, 2010
(Produced by Boston Children’s Museum)

Children of Hangzhou enables exhibit-goers to visit a real family in a contemporary China and experience the impact of modernization on the lives of the girls and boys in a family that bridges old traditions and new ways of life. Inside recreated models of a Hangzhou apartment, pagoda, open air market, school classroom, rice field, and modern shopping mall, visitors try hands-on activities and participate in the lives of the local children as they go about their daily play, school life, and work in China today.

OUT ON A LIMB EXHIBIT

September 18, 2010 – January 2, 2011
(Produced by San Jose Children’s Discovery Museum)

The fun and wonder of the natural world is explored through elaborate tree houses in Out on a Limb. Children enter the exhibit and are immediately inside a series of tree houses with virtual aerial views and real experiences of nature.  Children can help birds build nests and care for their young, climb a tree tower, make and decorate their own club house, weave a sculpture or build a chair with willow bark and bamboo, read and role play stories of nature, and study and draw objects in nature in their very own tree naturalist journal.