The Bakken Museum stands just on the shoreline of Lake Calhoun, where the view of Minneapolis matches how the museum inspires visitors to have a hands-on approach to science, technology, and humanities to create a world where learning is magical.
As we entered the Bakken Museum, we knew this was not going to be a typical museum where touching the exhibits is discouraged instead it is greatly encouraged. The museum encourages visitors not only to touch, explore but also to learn why and how things work through electricity, magnetism in life science and medicine. What we strongly believe in the hands-on learning approach is the best approach when it comes to children learning about the world around them.
As we explored the first floor, there were several different offered not only hands-on learning but allowed the children to explore with their minds how things work. One of the exhibits that inspired us was how our body produces electricity. We were amazed that by just moving our hands we could produce electricity.
Another one of our favorites was how much electricity it takes to light up a city. In this exhibit, some of us enjoyed moving various buildings around to experiment if the city would light up differently than the last experiment we made. And as we continued to explore and learn throughout the museum, we also learned how some items in the museum inspired technology we use today.
One of our favorite highlighted special exhibits that they had at the time of our visit was the Frankenstein’s laboratory. In the exhibit, we had a chance to hear about a young lady named Mary Shelly, who has challenged the social conventions of 1800’s and overcame the obstacles that changed the way we are inspired today in art, culture, and science today.
As we walked outside the terrace of the Bakken Museum, we reflected how the true meaning behind what the Bakken’s themselves believed that science and technology are the key learning and we did learn that the history of things play an important key to technology today.
Where do you go to get inspired?
