"The museum of the children"

We visited a very unusual place in Buenos Aires called "Museo de Los Ninos"- the Museum of the children.  The first thing that strikes you is the price - not unreasonable in itself, but its the only time we could think of where the entry fee is more for children than for the adults, a good early indicator that this is a very child-focused place!

The Museum is basically a huge indoor area where they have created a variety of work environments so that children can pretend to do the jobs that adults do in a really fun way - everything from driving a bus, working in a shop or bank, being a dentist, to media and sports roles. It's designed in a very colourful, interesting and informative way that had the children running off from one place to another in search of ever greater excitement. 

Career choices at present are somewhat early in being defined and change from one week to the next, and often revolve around transport.  The other day we heard dustbin men looked cool because they get to hang off the back of trucks. That fell out of favour somewhat when they went on strike though.  Frankie considered the idea of being a taxi driver, because you meet a lot of people, but then discounted this on the basis he might get carsick. Then being an Aqua taxi driver looked great, because you get to drive a boat! This week we've discovered the on-line Coffee Shop Game which has got them thinking about all sorts of businesses of their own they might want to run.  

So here are a few of the fun role plays that the boys got up to.

Working in a bank, although probably not popular because they may have picked up on  Daddy's comment on all the charges for overseas transactions and how difficult it is to get money when we are travelling!

Next please!

Driving a bus, where Louis pretended to be a passenger with lots of questions.......

I'm sorry, I haven't got any change......

A few that the boys' dentist would be proud of (but has it helped them brush their teeth more rigourously morning and evening?)

Firstly role playing receptionist and patient.........

Patient - I'm going to die in 51 seconds.....Receptionist - Could you just wait a minute please?

Then getting into the real action

You must get into all the crevices.....

Say AAAAhhhh!

Spending time in the media area, the boys got a chance to be behind the camera......

As well as in front of it

And even doing some directing too!

Frankie added, briefly......

We had just arrived at our destination.  We went through this thin path and on the way up we saw lots of strange mirrors, we pulled funny faces.  We got up and first thing we did was hopping in and out of taxis.  Some of the other things that we did were pretending to be a builder in a gingerbread house and going as fast as you can in a shopping market.  You could also be a bankman and a dentist.  So we had a good time but then it was time to go back.