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6 Days of Creation
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Venue: The Jewish Children's Museum
Cost: General Admission: $10
Children under 2: Free
There’s no better place to start an exploration of Jewish life than “In the Beginning…” Follow the biblical story of creation with a three-dimensional, multi-media display. Press a button to transform darkness into light. Look through a “telescope” to see the moon, planets, and stars. Peer into a lush aquarium, pet realistic looking animals, and much more.
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Shabbat
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Science
Venue: The Jewish Children's Museum
Cost: General Admission: $10
Children under 2: Free
After six days of creation, God rested on the seventh day, and so the museum’s look at the creation story concludes with a fun-filled presentation of Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest. Walk on a giant table set for the Shabbat meal and discover the many wonderful symbols, rituals, and customs.
Giant lava lamp candles catch the eye and feature surprises hidden in their bases. Climb on one challah and braid another. Watch a video about wine presented in a huge kiddush cup, and use matzoh ball computers to print out recipes for traditional dishes and learn about Shabbat traditions from around the world.
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Jewish Holiday
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Science
Venue: The Jewish Children's Museum
Cost: General Admission: $10
Children under 2: Free
Stroll through a replica of an old-fashioned shtetl—a village—to explore the Jewish holiday cycle. Weave your way in and out of storefronts and homes, peer through windows and visit “outdoor” displays. Investigate a shofar-maker’s workbench. Sit in a beautifully decorated sukkah, and “shop” for the perfect lulav and etrog. Press olive oil for Chanukah and become a news correspondent in a real newsroom in order to publicize the miracle of Chanukah. Retell the Purim story with puppets, and search for information on a large, interactive Passover Seder plate with plenty to lift up, look under, and flip open. Play a virtual reality bow-and-arrow game for Lag B’Omer, and try writing your name in Hebrew like a Torah scribe (an easy to follow chart shows you exactly what to do).
Chanukah Newsroom — As part of the holiday exhibits, visitors will learn about the miracle of Chanukah. One aspect of observing Chanukah is to publicize the miracle—this is why we light menorahs near a window. Children will get to do this in the museum by becoming television newscasters! Video monitors will feature a news anchor reporting on the “breaking news” of the Maccabees revolt against the Syrians. He will then cut to field anchors for reports. Museum visitors will then be prompted, with easy-to-follow instructions, to record their own 60-second reports, which they can make up or read from a monitor. These segments will then be integrated into the “newscast.”
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Kosher Supermarket
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Venue: The Jewish Children's Museum
Cost: General Admission: $10
Children under 2: Free
Enjoy role-playing fun and gain an understanding of the basics of the Jewish dietary laws. Stock up on kosher products with scaled-down shopping carts, artificial food, working scales and checkout scanners. At the checkout scanner, instead of ringing up prices, answer questions about various items on a touch-screen monitor.
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Kosher Kitchen
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Science
Venue: The Jewish Children's Museum
Cost: General Admission: $10
Children under 2: Free
With the shopping done, it’s time to head to the kosher kitchen. Sort the two sets of dishes and utensils into the appropriate cupboards.
Open the refrigerator and get a real surprise—it talks! And it has a great sense of humor too! Set the table for Shabbat dinner, and watch a kosher cooking show featuring real kids as chefs.
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World of Good
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Venue: The Jewish Children's Museum
Cost: General Admission: $10
Children under 2: Free
With a city skyline as a backdrop, explore fundamental good deeds that are universal to people of all faiths yet are grounded in biblical teachings, including honoring parents and teachers, faith, charity, visiting the sick, watching one’s speech, and respecting animals and resources. Play “pushke-pinball” to give charity to a worthy cause. Create a get-well card for children in a local hospital. Figure out the path through a maze by identifying the proper way to behave towards parents and teachers.
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Six Holes of Life - Mini Golf
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Venue: The Jewish Children's Museum
Cost: General Admission: $10
Children under 2: Free
The fifth floor features a full-size 6-hole miniature golf course where children can play while learning about major Jewish life cycle events including the bris, baby naming, Bar Mitzvah, and wedding.
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Gallery of Games
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Venue: The Jewish Children's Museum
Cost: General Admission: $10
Children under 2: Free
In the fifth floor’s Gallery of Games, the walls are literally teeming with activity. Kids can create images of Jewish objects as they “Paint a Picture in Light” by inserting colorful plastic pieces into a lighted board. They can also search for “Hidden Jewish Treasures” by pushing in special nails to reveal concealed shapes.
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