Museo Pambata - Learning through Play

Museo Pambata will always elicit happy memories for my family. It's actually our default go-to place every time we want to bring our kids somewhere where they would surely enjoy. Unlike the usual museum where all the displays are enclosed, in Museo, you can touch and play with them.  As usual, we had an amazing day.

Museo's facade

Maynila Noon/Old Manila
You can ring the bell of the galleon or smell the spice boxes.  Or lift the phone and listen to the story of famous heroes.  You can also ride the train or go into a miniature church.  Play with chopsticks. And try on "period" dresses.

Riding the train

Praying inside the miniature church

Playing with chopsticks and trying on period dresses

Katawan Ko/My Body Works
Here's an interesting way of learning about the human body. You can examine your fingerprint. Or go inside the mouth.  Or see how the digestive organ work.

Examining fingerprints

Looking at digestion

I Love My Planet Earth
Simulated rainforest and coastal area. It's fun learning about our world.  The slide is proof of that.

Learning about rainforests and coastal areas

Pamilihang Bayan/Marketplace
They have a whole gamut of fruits, vegetables, seafoods, etc.  Para talagang palengke.  In all the sections in Museo, this is where we usually stay the longest. My kids go gaga over marketing or cooking in their carinderia or pretend to man the stalls, with us, of course, as the customers.

Mock-marketing

Manning the carinderia

Living the barrio life

Paglaki ko/Career options
Farmer? or Fireman? Writer? Illustrator? Barber?  The options are scarce but the girls didn't mind.

Haircut or massage?

Writer or Storyteller?

Farmer or fireman?

Kalikasan/Environment
Waste segregation.  Energy conservation. All about saving the enviroment.

Learning about the enviroment

Details:
Museo Pambata
Roxas Boulevard corner South Drive, Manila
Tel.5231797/98 or 5360595
www.museopambata.org

Admission Fee:
P100 (kids and adults)

Schedules:
8am to 5pm (Tuesdays to Saturdays)
1pm to 5pm (Sundays)