Indianapolis - The Children's Museum

Indianapolis is AMAZING. It’s really beautiful, there’s art all over the place and the canal is… Well let’s just say it’s a really nice city.

The children’s museum is the biggest in the WORLD! There are so many great things there; you could even play the world’s first video game!!! (‘Pong’ – my dad beat me easily!).

On the third floor there was an exhibit called 'The Power of Children’ about three kids who changed the world (Anne Frank, Ruby Bridges and Ryan White). We got to see a short performance about Anne Frank and a bit about Ruby Bridges.

The building was genius-ly designed, in one area the roof was lifted up by giant dinosaurs and in another a dinosaur was breaking through the wall.

There was a really interesting exhibit on the 2nd floor called ‘Take Me There - Egypt.’ You first got on a plane, then went into two different modern Egyptian homes, a market, a coffee shop, and the Nile River and you could even make a virtual postcard!



Us in Egyptian clothes

My favourite floor was floor 4. On floor 4 there was the science lab and the carousel (including the history of video games).The science lab had a part for older children. Every week they change the subject. This week’s was plants. I played the first video game invented. My mum and dad played it. My dad is good at it. There was also a carousel I went on. 

On the second floor there was Barbie fashion exhibition.  I liked designing their clothes. 

In the basement there was a dinosaur exhibition.  I liked digging up the bones like a palaeontologist.  It was the best children’s museum ever!

To find out more about the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, click here.

In the evening we went to a Moroccan restaurant, and I suddenly found out that I really like Moroccan food. The restaurant we went to was called Saffron Café. I had a Shawarma Kebab. It was pitta bread with seasoned lamb, which was DELICIOUS! Mum and Dad had tagines which were a kind of Moroccan stew.