Museum Fun

To keep the boys happy I took them to a couple of museums during the week.
On Tuesday walked to the Melbourne Museum from our hotel, which was quite centrally located. We enjoyed walking through the Forest Gallery, which is an enclosed open air forest habitat, including wildlife. Tyler was fascinated with the insect room, which housed thousands of both living and non-living insects. Isaac liked the computerized bird migration activity. Nathan spent a lot of his time at this giant touch screen on the floor which simulated water. I could've spent longer in animal room if I hadn't needed to move along with the boys the the other areas.
The next day we took a train to Scienceworks, an interactive science museum geared to grade school children. Everything was hands on. Tyler spent most of his time in Sportsworks, an area filled with activities having to do with the body and its capabilities. Isaac was fascinated with the technology room where he spent much of his time at the computerized engine assembly station. What Nathan liked most at Scienceworks was controlling an excavation shovel which picked up and dumped balls in a cage. Once the hundreds of school children left for the day, the boys could use any of the displays with very little competition. We attended a special show in which we learned about the history of technological uses for electricity and the more recent developements in electromagnetic technology in the Lightning Room.