If you have kids between five and ten, put the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis on your list of vacation spots. If you are familiar with COSI, consider the Children’s Museum similar with more of an “art” emphasis. There are plenty of hands-on activities… not quite as many as COSI, but plenty. There are many more static displays.
The center piece is now a Dale Chihuly blown glass piece called Fireworks of Glass.
There are hundreds of individual pieces in this 43-foot tall monstrosity. It starts in the basement and goes all the way to the roof of the fourth floor. Since it’s glass, you can get underneath it in the basement and look up through.
There were also hands-on art lessons for the whole family. Chihuly paints using a “quick” style using his whole body to place the paint. In the classes we used pastels since paint would not dry quick enough to take home.
Here are our two artists at work. We plan to have a home exhibit this fall.