The Mind Museum: Making Science learning fun for kids

Parents do not need to be scientists, doctors or engineers to support their children’s science learning.  As long as they are willing to encourage their kids’ curiosity, they will be able to help them get interested in how the world works, and maybe even pursue careers in the different disciplines of the sciences. 

It takes just one spark of curiosity for a child to be drawn into the sciences. The Mind Museum at Taguig, the Philippines’ first world-class science museum, is a good place to start an educational and fascinating science journey with the kids. 

Located at Bonifacio Global City (BGC), The Mind Museum houses more than 250 interactive exhibits in five galleries that span the entire range of nature’s elements -- Atom, Earth, Life, Universe, and Technology, and an outdoor Science-in-the-Park. This 12,500 sqm learning facility, aims to present science in an engaging way.

A different kind of Learning

 The Mind Museum at Taguig is a venue for experiential learning. Children can actually touch and try the exhibits to have a better understanding of various Science concepts. The museum, for instance, features a game area in the Atom Gallery called Carbon: Basis of All Life on Earth –  where children can create their own carbon compound models, and thus help them understand why carbon is such a versatile atom! 

Exploring the museum also gives children the chance to experience things not normally done in school classrooms. They can go star-gazing even on broad daylight. Thanks to the facility’s Spaceshell, a mini-planetarium in the Universe Gallery. The area shows constellations and gives an idea on how the outer space looks like. It also screens videos and short films about our solar system and the universe.
There are special seats as well as where the electromagnetic waves in space are translated to what can be heard by humans.

Appreciating life and Science

 The Mind Museum likewise helps children appreciate life and science because most of the exhibits are attractive and insightful. This can help change their perception that science lessons are intimidating. 

The Technology Gallery features the different gadgets, tools, and technologies used in fashion, transportation, printing, and other industries across history. It gives an overview of how technologies have helped us improve their daily lives.  One of the more captivating exhibits in the Technology Gallery is the obstacle-avoiding robot named MIMO, which uses the same sensors installed in cars today. 
In the Life Gallery, the main attraction is the exhibit about the human brain and what parts work when a person feels, senses, and thinks. This interactive display is an excellent tool to make children understand the complexities of the brain.

 

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Science that grips kids’ attention

 Kids naturally crave for exciting activities that’s why The Mind Museum has made sure that its exhibits are not only informative but awe-inspiring and breathtaking.

At the center of the gallery is the 40-foot first T.rex skeletal exhibit in the country named Stan, after Stan Sacrison, who in 1987 discovered the most complete male tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever unearthed.  The exhibit is cast from real fossils.   The adventure and learning does not stop indoors. The outdoor Science-in-the-Park is a sure hit among the kids. Here you have four pockets: Music, Math, Living, and Water.

It is often said that education is the best gift parents can give to their children. If this is so, then experiencing The Mind Museum at Taguig is one of the best educational activities parents can share with their children. It will nurture their children’s curiosity, tickle their imagination, and renew their interest in science. It’s also a fun bonding and learning activity for the whole family.

The Mind Museum at Taguig is a world where imaginative minds can be built; a place that fascinates and inspires; a center where both young and old can learn in a fun and engaging way amazing facts and the process of discovery and their applications. The Mind Museum at Taguig tells the story of science to Filipinos. It helps inspire future scientists, engineers, doctors, etc. that would help progress our country. It is a place where science comes alive.

What’s Inside

 The Mind Museum is an enthralling learning facility for kids age 6 to 96.  It has over 250 interactive exhibits.  It is a showcase of “What we know, how we know it and what we do with what we know.” The galleries feature science facts, the process of discovery and their applications in technology.  It is a place where visitors can learn science principles in a fascinating and interactive way, where teachers can find new and exciting ways to supplement their science lessons, and where students can satisfy their curiosity about how the world works.   

Divided into five main galleries, it tells the story of the Atom, Earth, Life, Universe, and Technology:

• The Atom Gallery has exhibit pieces that show the strange world of the very small in terms of forces and particles.

• The Earth Gallery tells of the story of the planet and our archipelago across the breadth of time; it includes a 3D animated film made by an all-Filipino crew that features 4.6 billion years of the planet's natural history and evolution in 12 minutes.

• The Life Gallery is a dive into deeper understanding of how life surrounds and inhabits us – from microbes to large animals (such as a life size ‘butanding’), and from DNA, cells to a giant human brain model.

• The Universe Gallery features the mysterious vastness of the universe and holds clues to where we came from and where we are going.  The gallery also contains a unique planetarium which simulates star-gazing from the point of view of literally laying down on a bed beneath the stars. 

• The Technology Gallery, located above all four galleries, shows how we, with the tools we invent and innovate, are able to express our evolving humanity.  It is the story of how we humans have explored ways of being alive! 

The Mind Museum also has an outdoor Science-in-the-Park where visitors can experience playful science through four-themed pockets: Music, Math, Living and Water.  Other educational offerings include facilities such as an auditorium, laboratory and classrooms, for educational workshops which explore how things work and the relationship of science to other fields of learning. 

 

For more information, visit www.themindmuseum.org or call at 909-MIND (6463).