Comments on: Learning About Other Cultures at Museums

By: Rashmi Turner

Rashmi Turner — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:42:56 +0000

Thank you for sharing this post. Taking kids to museums and libraries are good ways to teach them about other cultures. I think it’s great that you’ve made this a priority with your children. The exhibits you listed look like great resources! I hope the Global Wonders series helps parents, like you, who don’t live in culturally diverse areas expose their children to a variety of foods, languages, customs and traditions from everywhere around the world.

-Rashmi Turner
Founder/CEO, Global Wonders

By: Susanna (A Modern Mother)

Susanna (A Modern Mother) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:24:53 +0000

We’re lucky to live just an hour outside of London…

Our latest outing was to the National Gallery: http://tinyurl.com/6hlomh

We are even luckier that all the museums are FREE!

By: Dominique

Dominique — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:45:49 +0000

We don’t have children, but we love going to museums ourselves. The Detroit area has a lot of great museums and cultural organizations…I just finished blogging about the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s outreach programs and the Detroit Film Theater at the Detroit Institute of Arts this past week. We also recently visited the Motown Museum here, which I’m planning to write up come January and Motown’s 50th anniversary.
Plus we’re close to Toledo (Ohio) and the college town of Ann Arbor (Michigan). Toledo has a very good art museum and zoo. I haven’t been in the Ann Arbor Art Museum since they closed for a major renovation, but it promises to be quite nice when it reopens…and the college has many small and specialized museums.

I also have a favorite Nature Center (Madison Heights, MI–yup, in the blog) near my home. It has about 1 1/2 miles of nice walking trails. The center also has a lot of programs, many of them geared to home-schooled kids.

By: jamie

jamie — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:41:36 +0000

Parties! We try to participate in Dia de los Muertos, Diwali, and Chinese New Year celebrations. Luckily for us (SF bay area), the kids get it in school too. My first grader's class in particular is like the United Nations. He's in there with kids from Israel, Greece, Sweden, and India this year. Last year it was England, Mexico, Japan, China, and Turkey. So different from my own childhood! jamie’s last blog post..How to Keep Your Backpack Safe

By: Momma Mac

Momma Mac — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:05:56 +0000

My oldest daughter goes to an immersion school so she is exposed not only to another language but a lot of the traditions of another culture.

We also try to make it out to California about once a year, typically to the Bay area where most of my dad’s family still lives. I love that area and hope to move back someday.

When in the Twin Cities, we often go to museums and have even found that going to places such as the Mall of America or finding that family owned neighborhood Thai restaurant are great ways to expose them to different cultures!

By: Kelly from Almost Frugal

Kelly from Almost Frugal — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:52:45 +0000

We don't have a lot of museums in the city in which I live (it's very sporty, not cultured). But I like to take my kids to the modern art museum- I think it gives them a different way to look at the world. Kelly from Almost Frugal’s last blog post..Questions Anyone?

By: Tricia

Tricia — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:49:58 +0000

Great ideas!!!

By: ELLIE

ELLIE — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:48:49 +0000

Well – first we do live in a culturely diverse area – so I do not think that has been much of an issue for my kids when they were growing up – and considering that I am puerto rican and my grandfather is black – I think we pretty much live diverse…my boys are blonde hair and blue green eyes – my daughter has auburn hair and tannish eyes – but they are very big into celebrating what culture they have been brought up in…actually they can cook some great puerto rican food – they are much more comfortable in diverse areas with diverse people then just “white” anything!
Just my two cents
Ellie

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By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:46:54 +0000

I do live in a fairly diverse area and my children are pretty diverse (1/4 Mexican, 1/4 African American, 1/2 White) and we try hard to expose them to all of the cultural aspects of these backgrounds. We attend Kwaanza celebrations, for example, and see Dia de los Muertos exhibits and we are also trying to expose them to Spanish. My mother was a big believer in museums and I remember as a kid that she'd drag us all over to see any museum she thought would be interesting. I fought it at times then but now realize that I learned so much about the world through those visits. Matthew’s last blog post..Reason #2302 parenting gives you gray hair: Traveling with children

By: califmom

califmom — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:43:39 +0000

We live in the San Francisco Bay Area. So, finding diversity is fairly easy. Although, I'm finding that most homeschoolers in our city are other Caucasian, middle-class families. That means more effort is needed to build diversity into our days. For example, my kids practice yoga with a Hindu teacher. We also take field trips to places outside our suburban community, and travel to new places when we can. We're getting ready to take the kids to Kaua'i for the first time. When the budget is tighter, we travel via DVDs and the library. califmom’s last blog post..Cory Friedman's Blog