{"id":364,"date":"2007-08-14T20:10:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T01:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/08\/14\/the-childrens-museum\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T22:01:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T03:01:33","slug":"the-childrens-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/08\/14\/the-childrens-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Children&#8217;s Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have kids between five and ten, put the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensmuseum.org\/\">Children&#8217;s Museum<\/a> in Indianapolis on your list of vacation spots.\u00a0 If you are familiar with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cosi.org\/\">COSI<\/a>, consider the Children&#8217;s Museum similar with more of an &#8220;art&#8221; emphasis.\u00a0 There are plenty of hands-on activities&#8230; not quite as many as COSI, but plenty.\u00a0 There are many more static displays.<\/p>\n<p>The center piece is now a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dale_Chihuly\">Dale Chihuly<\/a>\u00a0blown glass\u00a0piece called Fireworks of Glass.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/img_1503.JPG\" alt=\"img_1503.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are hundreds of individual pieces in this 43-foot tall monstrosity.\u00a0 It starts in the basement and goes all the way to the roof of the fourth floor.\u00a0 Since it&#8217;s glass, you can get underneath it in the basement and look up through.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/img_1487.JPG\" alt=\"img_1487.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were also hands-on art lessons for the whole family.\u00a0 Chihuly paints using a &#8220;quick&#8221; style using his whole body to place the paint.\u00a0 In the classes we used pastels since paint would not dry quick enough to take home.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/img_1655.JPG\" alt=\"img_1655.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are our two artists at work.\u00a0 We plan to have a home exhibit\u00a0this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have kids between five and ten, put the Children&#8217;s Museum in Indianapolis on your list of vacation spots.\u00a0 If you are familiar with COSI, consider the Children&#8217;s Museum similar with more of an &#8220;art&#8221; emphasis.\u00a0 There are plenty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/08\/14\/the-childrens-museum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[340],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leisure","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}