The Leonardo Museum

The art lab

We went to the Leonardo this past weekend. Right now they are featuring the mummy exhibit, but that seemed a little expensive (and mature) for our little boys. We went through the rest of the museum, though. It seemed it was a little too mature for us, too. We don't "pan" too many adventures, but this one wasn't really suitable for little kids (ours are 6, 3, and 1).

On the first floor, there is an art lab. There is drawing, clay, and a few other projects. The problem was, there is no one there to help the little guys. I know I'm the parent, I get that, but having an expert come and talk to the little ones and give ideas sure helps. (This did get better later on.)

We went upstairs to Level 2 and found that most of the stuff up there was geared toward the 10-15 year-old crowd. We had fun with the motion capture for a few minutes, and there was a cool animation display, but both were more "watch your parents perform" than hands on for little kids.

They loved making that skeleton dance with the motion capture.

The highlight for the kids was the project center upstairs. This one had a helper, and the project for the day was paper airplanes. The young lady that helped us was great and the kids loved making the planes and bringing them home-- Unfortunately at the $32 it cost for our family, those airplanes were sixteen bucks apiece!

I wouldn't really recommend the Leonardo for young families. Maybe if we had kids in the middle grades, we'd have had more fun.

We'll try this one again in about ten years . . .

There was a section where you learn about pixels and colors, like on TV and phone screens.

Making a movie.

Making paper airplanes