Monday, August 25, 2014

Museon in The Hague


 I am a a hoarder. I collect trinkets and papers and flyers and tickets and magazine cutouts and newspapers and train tickets and photographs. Mark is the kind of person that likes to throw things away and he calls my collection "junk" or "random crap".  He dreams of the day I will get rid of it all.


 I was going through a stack last week, and I was surprised to find 3 tickets to Museon, the children's museum for Science and Technology in The Hague. The tickets were valid until the end of the summer, so we decided to go this weekend. It was really interesting. The museum has collections in the domains of geology, biology, archaeology, history, science and ethnology.


 Currently there are a couple of temporary expositions, one on mimetism, or as it is called: "imitation is an art, and another one focusing on ways to achieve peace. There is also a section that details the history of the Peace Palace in The Hague, another one that goes through several Peace Nobel Prize winners, yet another one about children during the war, as well as the (very vast) main collections on Evolution, Immigration, Geology, Biology, Science, Machines...


Worth noticing is the "baby care" area where not only is there a nice and tall changing table, but also a high-chair, sink, and a box, in case your kid needs a break, a meal, a change or a nap. How was your weekend? Did you go to any interesting places?

 First image courtesy of the wikipedia 

8 comments:

  1. jajaja...
    Me siento tan identificada con tu esposo... Por un mundo libre de objetos acumulados! ;)
    No soy mucho de museos, pero la semana pasada estuvimos en Alemania y me conseguí una exposición de fotografía... ahí si me podía quedar dando vueltas!

    Saludos!

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    1. Que lindo, me encantan los viajes espontáneos.

      Y sí, cada que tiro algo a la basura o lo dono o lo recirculo, Mark es feliz!

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  2. Yo tambíen junto de toooodo jaja NLE, también me regaña por eso. ¡¡¡Qué padre lo de los cambiadores!!! Por el bien de madres y padres del mundo así debería de ser en todos lados.

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    1. Sí, cada vez veo más y más- Sobretodo también áreas de cuidado de bebé que son neutras, es decir, no están en el baño de mujeres. Así también los papás pueden ir !!
      He visto áreas así en los aeropuertos de Amsterdam y Ginebra, en este museo y en el Marks & Spencer

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  3. Me fijaré en los sitios en México, tal vez exista alguno, ja, esperemos que haya cada vez más y más.

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    1. Sí, ojalá que sí, sobretodo los que son neutros, para que los papás también puedan acceder!!!

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  4. Ok, not related but does your husband know my husband? Because they sound alike!
    The Museons great too!

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    1. It is a really nice museum, definitely have to go back one day, we did not get to see all of it in proper detail.

      Haha... I think there is always a hoarder in every relationship.

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