Museum Exhibit #2
This is an exhibit at Mill City entitled 'Design a Cereal Box'. I like the layout of the exhibit. It's a big circle with lots of stools around it and 8 felt boxes one can design on. It's easy to interact with it by yourself or with a friend. The are felt pieces scattered all over the table with common cereal phrases and pictures that can be placed onto your felt cereal box. One of us was clearly engaged in this exhibit and one was not. I think the exhibit had kind of been forgotten about. The pieces were old and worn and there weren't a lot of choices. But you could interact with it in anyway you wanted, there was no correct cereal box design. I think with more updated felt pieces and a wider variety of choices this exhibit could have interested me a little more.
*author's note: I realize I wrote two lackluster reviews of Mill City Exhibits, but don't let this detour you! It really is a great place! They have a flour tower where you ride up and down a tower and learn how the flour mill worked, a mini movie about the city of minneapolis by local Kvein Kling. There are people playing historical figures that you can talk to and interact with, a baking lab, a water lab. It has lots of history about minneapolis and the flour mills and its all inside the ruins of a flour mill. The views from the top are awesome.
I liked that this exhibit used felt though,as opposed to maybe magnets or even a computer image. It is much more pleasing to the senses. I would have loved to see the exhibit before the images started to wear off and the felt started to feel dirty.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point. It definitely gives the exhibit a days of yore feel to it, which I think goes along with the whole feel of Mill City.
ReplyDeleteI like to see this back-and-forth dialogue in the comments box. Thanks for checking back in, Britt, to see what Justine had to say.
ReplyDeleteI can't help seeing the reading/writing potential in this exhibit, and how easily it could be duplicated in a classroom. As I pointed out in class, with our youngest learners, using environmental print--objects & images they see around them every day--is an effective strategy for supporting literacy development. This cereal box idea is smart, engaging, and cross-curricular. You can teach science, math, language, and history with this simply "design a box" activity--at many grade levels.
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