Teaching kids and grown-ups about WAVES
January 28th, 2007 by levende
My fondness for museums of almost any kind caused me and my family to travel all the way to faraway Thyborøn in Western Jutland (DK) one summer. Arriving on the small ferry from Agger tange in the north, we could instantly smell that Thyborøn is a fisherman’s haven, situated on a peninsula with one side to the fjord and one to the wild and hungry sea.
The town hosts a gem of a museum that made us spend an entire day there: Kystcentret (The Coastal Centre), which turned out to become one of my personal favourites when it comes to museums that both kids and grown-ups can equally enjoy, and that at the same time makes learning fun and irresistable. Here, we could simulate waves, tides, floods due to global heating etc etc. And also learn much more about how building dikes protects the coastline.
Hands-on and irresistably edutaining!
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I love edutaining science-museums. I’d be curious what other water/wave/underwater museums that are spread around the world.
Personally I’ve been to the underwater aqaurium in Eilat, Israel (that I think is now converted into an underwater bar???). And a number of seaworlds and aqauriums around the world…
But recommendations would be highly appreciated :-)