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The original documents are located in Box 2, folder "1976/10/01 - Visit to Children's
Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana" of the Frances K. Pullen Papers at the Gerald R. Ford
Presidential Library.
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Monday, September 27, 1976
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
be kept. Here you might keep paper both cologal 11
Indianapolis museum is not just to look at
By Alice Taylor Reed
The curator invites you to pick up old bones,
40 observed during a several months' tryout.
Special to
The one selected seemed best adapted to with-
The Christian Science Monitor
'ride' a fire engine, and walk into the past
standing the handling and noise of the visitors.
Other small cold-blooded animals live in a
Indianapolis
over mountains and waterfalls. And 10 more
tour conductors decipher this message and ex-
glass-enclosed space where they can be ob-
This museum is not just for looking. There
trains are parked on sidings, waiting for a sec-
plain the picture alphabet to those who come
served by school tours.
are real dinosaur bones you can pick up and
tion of track to clear so they can go.
on school tours.
Highlight of the Natural Science gallery is a
handle; a fire engine you can climb on, ring
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
The showpiece of the Americana gallery is
simulated limestone cave, cool and dark and
the bell, sound the siren, and turn the heavy
opens the doors of its brand-new building Oct.
the Hoosier Home diorama, an authentic fur-
wheel that steers the truck. There's an Indy-
2. Built on the same corner in the central city
damp, with 120 feet of passageways through
nished log cabin from the 1830s. It is flanked
typical cave formations.
500 race car you can hop in and sit in the
where it has been for 29 years, the new build-
by real trees, in a wilderness setting. Museum
The core of this gallery is the Discovery
driver's seat.
ing houses some of its long-time favorite exhib-
visitors enter the huge diorama and become
Desk, with more than 80 drawers of animal,
And there's a carousel with 42 hand-carved
its plus a host of exciting new ones.
part of it when they tour the cabin. On special
rock, and plant specimens. Students can check
wooden animals you can ride on, up and down
Thousands of Indianapolis children have first
occasions they can observe costumed pioneer
out a drawer for a learning experience from
and round and round to the music of a merry-
learned about Egyptian mummies from a trip
women cooking and spinning and making soap
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objects. Some of the drawers have birds' nests,
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go-round band organ.
to the Children's Museum, and the new build-
and candles under the trees and in the fields
some rock collections, some tree twigs and
The gallery that houses the carousel has
ing has a simulated Egyptian tomb to house its
outside the log house.
leaves and seeds. Some are ecology drawers
other beloved toys and amusements from ear-
mummy, Wenuhotep, daughter of the Egyptian
The most activity-oriented gallery is the
with instructions on how to construct a food
lier eras, including a toy train layout where 5
priest who lived nearly 3,000 years ago. The
Natural Science gallery. Here exhibits relate
chain or a food web.
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trains operate at once through cities and
walls of the tomb are painted with scenes and
to the elements and the environment. A turtle
Just outside the Natural Science gallery is a
all
towns, past an industrial park and a circus,
messages written in hieroglyphs. Volunteer
pit houses a live turtle chosen from more than
walled outdoor learning area, an 8,000-square
foot microcosm of the State of Indiana's natu-
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ral features - from sand dunes in the north-
rial
west corner bordering Lake Michigan down to
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the flat terrain of central Indiana and the
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Solve these thinking inlogination you want !!!!!
gently rolling hills of the southern portion.
The gallery includes a greenhouse using fluo-
rescent lights where continuing experiments
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on how to grow houseplants and how to raise
food will be carried on by schoolchildren in
atly
their free time, assisted by the museum staff.
There are special activities every afternoon
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after school and on Saturdays. They include
craft classes, merit badge classes for Boy and
tion
Dwe these letters XBTCO
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see how many different things
Girl Scouts, a choir, story hour for young chil-
to make the following:
you can draw that have
dren (illustrated with objects from the mu-
A large
this as Part of its shope
seum collections), a course in the emergence
Something ride on
of "third-world" countries, and a mother-
Something that whistles
A sweet
daughter weaving class. There are geology and
biology field trips.
Something that makes you laugh
A noisy
Dedicated to "everyone who is - or ever
was - a child," the museum exhibits pose
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questions as well as answers. The Emergence
example :
of Man gallery outlines several theories, and
the Story of Our Earth gallery asks, "Why did
the turtles survive and the large dinosaurs
not?"
The museum is open to the public every day
By Bill Oakes
but Monday and admission is free.