Children's Museum in Baltimore
By Wendy Perrin
En route to Washington, D.C.--where Tim and the kids and I are visiting friends this weekend--we discovered Port Discovery, the children's museum in Baltimore. It's easy to reach off I-95, and boy was it an excellent mid-drive pitstop. We ended up spending 4 hours there . . . and hated to leave! Whoever designed this museum had restless, athletic young boys in mind. There are countless ways to work off random excess energy, what with three stories filled with contraptions for climbing on, crawling through, jumping in, running around, sliding down, and pulling yourself up in.
Doug, 2, on a rope bridge 3 stories high. Charlie, 4, on Clifford the Big Red Dog's conveyor belt.
Tim remarked that this kids' museum really should be called a Daddy Museum. There are no weight or height limits for the equipment, which means Dads get to climb and pull and jump too.
Because museum guards man the exit, kids can't escape the building
while your eyes are turned the other way. And because all members of
each family are given a bracelet with a matching I.D. number on it, and
the exit guards check the numbers, there's no way your child can
disappear with the wrong person. What all this means is that parents
can relax while their kids run amok or, if they like, run amok with
them. How great is that?!?
Charlie in the bathtub drain in Miss Perception's Mystery
House. A 30-foot tunnel leads from the house's kitchen to the bathtub.
Kids investigate the house, seeking clues to the whereabouts of the
missing Baffeld family.
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