The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is trying something new to introduce kids to the materials that make art.
The studio space incorporates new technology. This light table lets children manipulate their own drawings.Then, there is the advanced technology used to encourage children to play with the physics of light. When a child places an image from the Met's collection on a special screen, it's projected onto the wall as a 2-dimensional figure. But some twisting of dials makes the light shift and the shadows move, creating a 3D effect.
Another station makes instant copies of a child's drawings and projects them onto a table, where they can be flipped or the colors can be changed. The 81st Street Studio is free to all and doesn't require a reservation; children and their grownups are welcome to drop in.The Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe kids who visit, of course, don't know that they're learning about light or the physical properties of wood. They think they're playing. But that's fine, the museum says.
"We are hoping that it will occur to some children to ask us questions about what they're playing with," said Patty Brown, a volunteer."We are not going to be didactic about it or heavy-handed because they will never want to come back. But there will be the odd child who will ask questions." And if they do, she said, she and the other volunteers will help the family connect what they're touching in the play space with what they see upstairs in the larger museum — giving them a hands-on understanding of art.The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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