It s time for the balls to come raining down. A grocery store, veterinary clinic, diner, post-office and more provide opportunities for children to imagine, pretend and try out adult roles. Checking a dog s temperature, viewing an x-ray of a cat, shopping, cooking, serving up food at a diner or putting a baby to bed are just a sampling of the opportunities this exhibit offers. Children s abilities to understand themselves in relation to the world around them are developed in this global gallery of children. Based on DK Publishing s books Children Just Like Me and Celebrations , this exhibit presents images of children from their daily lives.
Children enter vignettes representing individual children from different regions of the world.
Meet Esta of the Maasai in Tanzania or Olia who lives in Russia. Children can compare their favorite foods, subjects in school and games with the international children and families they meet through this exhibit. Visitors create their own structures using different types of building material such as Duplo, Brio, unit blocks and simple shapes. A backdrop of the Cincinnati skyline, photographs from Museum Center s Collection and photographs of local construction workers reinforce the idea that all types of creations start small and with simple shapes. A 12-foot crane provides the centerpiece of the exhibit as kids take charge of their own construction site.