(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Children’s Museum of Memphis is hosting the traveling exhibit, Top Secret: Mission Toy, June 13-September 13, 2009. This intriguing exhibition from the Canadian Children’s Museum allows kids to have a unique opportunity to play toy detective with toys from around the world.
We all know that children play with toys because it’s fun, but did you know that toys also help them develop important cognitive, social and motor skills? They help socialize children, teaching them to share, compromise and cooperate with their peers. Many toys also foster creativity and imagination, critical thinking and problem-solving.
Nobody knows toys better than kids. Children don a lab coat and embark on an important mission: to inspect toys from around the world. They use their investigative and playtime skills to check out dolls and balls and secret codes, find out why tops are tops, and how string can be a fascinating thing.
“Toys are an essential part of growing up,” said Richard Hackett, museum chief executive officer. “Toys are often overlooked for their important role in educating and socializing our children.”
Top Secret: Mission Toy shows that toys take many forms and shapes, from simple wooden tops to remote-controlled robots. Toys are an important part of life in cultures around the world - showing that a child’s need to have fun is a universal concept. The exhibit was created by the Canadian Children’s Museum and highlights that museum’s rich collection of toys, interactive devices, games and other activities.
Top Secret: Mission Toy is included with museum admission. For more information, visit CMOM.COM.
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Top Secret: Mission Toy at The Children’s Museum of Memphis
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The World's Largest Brachiosaurus at The World's Largest Children's Museum
/PRNewswire/ — They lived 145 million years ago, walked on four legs, were three times as tall as giraffes, were as long as humpback whales and weighed up to 88 tons. They were so large that they probably had no predators, so they ruled the late Jurassic world and they are sure to rule The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. An approximately 50-foot-tall, 75-foot-long mother dinosaur will appear to lift the roof of the New Welcome Center, allowing her 30-foot-long child to enter the building. The gentle plant-eaters are among the most widely known dinosaurs in the world. Will you recognize them when you come face-to-face with them?
The three giant Alamosaurs bursting from the Dinosphere exhibit's exterior help get children excited about entering the world of dinosaurs. It is our hope that the addition of the Brachiosaurus to the new expansion will continue to compel children and their families to explore the world of science," said Dr. Jeffrey H. Patchen, president and CEO of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
Gary Staab of Staab Studios, located in Kearney, Mo. sculpted the two giant Brachiosaurs. They are the largest dinosaur sculptures that his studio has ever created. Staab Studios www.staabstudios.com has permanent displays at museums around the world including the National Geographic Explorers Hall in Washington D.C. and Denver's Museum of Nature and Science.
The six-month creation process began with sketches of the Brachiosaurs, and then a team from the museum worked closely with Staab to create small, highly detailed models. The models were posed and scanned, and then the life-sized sculptures were carved in foam supported by an internal steel armature. A structural coating of polyurea was added to the foam pieces. Then the skin was sculpted and painted so that it would appear to be highly realistic, a hallmark of Staab Studios since it began in 1989.
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