Any brave parent who has taken their child to a museum knows that too often kids just want to press all the buttons and play on the escalator. Children’s museums are learning they need to make the museum experience as much fun as the lift panel.
The result can be seen in designed spaces such as Melbourne Museum’s new Pauline Gandel Children’s Gallery where the museum space has been transformed with climbing nets, gigantic pull​eys, a lullaby cocoon, and a sprawling garden complete with dinosaur fossils waiting in the sandpit.
