212 West 83rd Street
(between Broadway & Amsterdam Avenues)
(212) 721-1234
www.cmom.org What's
New?
 The
Children’s Museum of Manhattan is a great place to take kids
aged 2-10. Museum is hardly the right word to describe this
creative learning center that encourages hands-on experience. Like
the Children’s Museum in Washington DC, this center has a range
of activities for small children that educate as well as
entertain. Kids can participate in daily workshops and other
activities that include climbing, drawing and painting. Kids can
even produce their own shows for CMOM-TV in the Time Warner Media
Center, a professionally equipped television studio.
 One
of the main exhibits is the Body Odyssey, where kids
can walk through rooms representing different parts of the human
body. Children will learn how the body works by running through
the blood tunnel, climbing through the digestive path or going
down "the wrong pipe" to visit the lungs.
A great exhibit for both
children and adults is Seuss!, a colorful make believe land
based on the Dr. Seuss series of books. Kids can drive the
clean-up machine, cook green eggs and ham and ride the seven hump
wump.
The newest addition to the
Children’s Museum is the John Lennon exhibit, a collection of
the drawings, poems and figurines the Beatle made for his son
Sean.
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