Keeping children entertained on family holiday excursions can be pretty tough business. For many parents, they will come away from a family vacation, needing another vacation. There is a hustle to the city of New York, a bustle that happens just walking down the street. This is the perfect place to take children. Be it a walk through Central Park and a look at the “Un-Birthday Party” Alice and Wonderland sculpture, to a ride around the Park in a horse drawn carriage. When it comes to museums, this is when most children sigh, thinking that museums are boring places filled with bunches of old things. However, one of the museums located conveniently close and accessible to your room at the best New York City hotel in Brooklyn, is the museum that is dedicated, yes–to children.
Aptly named, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum was opened in 1899, the first museum in the country designed and curated with the child in mind. And contrary to the belief that the city is expensive, the admission to the museum is just four bucks, free to those under the age of one year. Should you be traveling in the winter time, know that coat check is free at the museum. You are allowed to bring your own picnic lunch or have a bite in the museum’s cafe. There are many different activities and exhibits, all of which have inspired the inception of more than three hundred children’s museums throughout the world in the years that it has been operating.
This is of course, an interactive place, with everything from water parks created just for toddlers, to child sized cars, a library and a program that encourages creative thoughts and actions through various role playing activities. The array of interesting things includes elephant bones and live python snakes, to art stations and scientific labs. Should you find yourself traveling with kids through the city of New York, this museum is one stop that you must make, because to tell you the truth, it’s a pretty cool spot for adults as well.