Learn While You Play in Brookings
Sep 12, 2012
We toured the new Children's Museum in Brookings this week and quickly discovered that it's for children of all ages. Anybody from toddlers to teens and older will enjoy the games and exercises in the beautifully restored 1936 school building in downtown Brookings. Photos by Bernie Hunhoff.
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The Children's Museum of South Dakota is designed for children of all ages. -
The museum is staffed by creative people with experience in childhood learning as well as design. Jill Kosbau, pictured in a play restaurant, was a designer in Denver before moving home. -
Jill reads the news in a television news room, where boys and girls can see if they might want to follow in Tom Brokaw's footsteps. -
"Our Place on the Prairie" is an exhibit that teaches youth about life here on the Great Plains. -
Anyone interested in home-building? Children can see how houses differ around the world, and they can try their hands at building their own homes with plastic "cement" blocks. -
A life-size dinosaur thrills visitors, and terrorizes others. He watches over an outdoor playground that includes fountains for splashing and a prairie grass maze. -
Even farm kids will be interested in the inner workings of the mechanical cow. -
A smaller dinosaur occasionally spooks passers-by, but he's all roar and no bite.
$29 for 1 Year |
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