Thursday, January 24, 2013

Minnesota Museums

Minnesota’s museums have moved away from that stuffy image that museums used to have, where they were places only meant for snobs and school field trips. Minnesota’s museums today are fun filled, exciting places for all ages, and easily visited with a charter bus, coach bus, party bus, mini bus, passenger coach or school bus chartered from Bus Charter Minneapolis. Visit Minnesota’s museums in style and comfort as your reliable, friendly charter bus driver takes you and your group where you need to go.
The Science Museum of Minnesota, founded in 1907, is located on the banks of the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul, and easily reached by charter bus. The Science Museum's programs combine research and collection facilities, a public science education center, extensive teacher education and school outreach programs, and an Imax Convertible Dome Omnitheater to provide science education to their audience of more than a million people per year, including charter bus visitors. The Science Museum of Minnesota is known for its interactive exhibits, dynamic exhibitions, and internationally distributed large format films. The museum was an early innovator in the use of live theater as a humanizing interpretive tool and continues to be a training ground for other museums wishing to include live programming in their exhibit halls.
For the kids, and the kid in all of us, take your charter bus and head down to the Minnesota Children’s Museum. Moving away from the traditional philosophy of having “do not touch” signs on exhibits, the Minnesota Children’s Museum is dedicated to providing children with a fun, hands-on and stimulating environment to explore and discover. Three of the most popular exhibits are Habitot where babies and toddlers can safely explore, climb and crawl, the Crane, which in the World Works gallery and the Maze, which is a giant anthill. The crane and giant anthill are part of larger exhibits where children can enter the muskrat lodge and pretend to be a busy beaver, crawl under the 500-gallon aquarium, challenge your balancing skills at the bouldering wall, come face-to-face with turtles, make waves at the wild water table or turn a gooey mess into paper art.
Take a charter bus trip to The Landing, and step back in time to see what life was like for people who lived in the Minnesota River Valley 150 years ago. A recreation of 19th-century life in Minnesota, The Landing is a park open for tours, educational events, group events and weddings. This 88-acre living history museum depicts life in the Lower Minnesota River Valley from the 1840s to 1890s with authentic 19th-century buildings, demonstrations and a scenic river trail and overlook. Costumed interpreters and authentic buildings help recreate a time when settlers were establishing farmsteads and villages on the frontier. Charter bus visitors are encouraged to participate in daily activities and occupations in The Landing, making this a fun and educational time for all interested in America’s early history of frontier settlement.
For a fun filled, exciting time in Minnesota, give Bus Charter Minneapolis a call to find out how they help with their fleet of charter buses and friendly, personalized service.