Lied Discovery Children's Museum is a find for boith kids and adults alike
The Lied Discovery Children’s Museum may be designed for kids but one step inside and it’s apparent that it’s much more than child’s play.
Both children and adults can enjoy more than 100 different interactive science, art, and humanity stations in this 22.000-square-foot facility that is considered one of the larger children’s museums in the country. Guests can take part in everything from experiencing a hurricane to playing a symphony of musical instruments with the wave of a hand.
The first floor allows youngsters five and under to take imagination to a whole new level. Tots can enjoy “Desert Discovery,” a station that includes a living room, bedroom, a crawling area, and a mining area where they can drop ore in buckets and send it across the “mountain.” They can also play in ToddlerTower, a spacious jungle gym for jumping, climbing, sliding and overall romping,
Other playtime activities include letting the kiddies put on dress-up clothes and act out plays on a stage. In a little more serious vein, they can also “work” at a bank as a teller and can even withdraw money from an ATM. Or they can go to the supermarket and buy groceries or “work” as a cashier or stock person.
On the second level of the museum, visitors will find exhibits for music and sports lovers and others. It is here that the “stringless” music station, which allows a child to play more than 100 instruments with the mere flick of the wrist, can be found. With each wave of the hand back and forth, different sounds can be heard.
The upstairs level also has a station called “What if you couldn’t?” in which while sitting in a wheelchair, guests try to shoot a basketball through the hoop. There are some interesting group activities on this floor as well, in which kids can star in their own mini-movie or gather inside a booth and experience a hurricane with winds up to 70 miles per hour.
Other fun activities in the museum include being able to take a picture of one’s own shadow and letting budding radio announcers take their turn at the in-house radio station K-KID. There is even an exhibit called “It’s Your Choice,” which teaches the importance of healthy eating habits to the entire family and encourages conversation between child and parents.
Exhibits and experiments at Lied rotate often, and older permanent ones are often replaced with new ones. It all goes to show that science is true art.
- by Bobbie Katz, Las Vegas Reporter for HelloMetro
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