Every month, a few museums in Seattle (and Tacoma) open their doors to visitors for free! With the ages of our girls, I love this, as we don’t usually stay for very long. It’s a bit crowded, but it’s free, so no complaints from us. Since this day is always a Thursday, we don’t have many opportunities to take advantage of it because of school and AWANA. So when the first Thursday of the month fell on a vacation day, we headed up to Seattle! We hit 3 museums and a Conservatory – The Seattle Asian Art Museum, Volunteer Park Conservatory, The Museum of History and Industry and The Museum of Flight. Lots of walking, but like I said, we just kind of walk through and look. 🙂
We started off at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. We had seen this from the outside before and I’ve always wondered what it was like inside.
Of course we had to stop and take a picture on the camel before we went in.
Next we walked over to the Volunteer Park Conservatory. This was my favorite part of our day. One of the rooms was still decorated for Christmas and had a train going around in the middle. It made me miss the train around our tree!
Molly and Ashley kept walking around the room, following it. They were mesmerized by it and didn’t want to leave!
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- Dad – this made me think of your train we used to set up at Christmas!
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- I think Molly was pretending to drive the train.
We then hopped in the car and headed over to The Museum of History and Industry. We had never been here (actually I had never even heard about it until that morning.) It was so much fun! There were so many interactive things to do and lots of stations to sit down and explore things! We’ll definitely have to come back with Tom and spend a lot more time here now that we know about it!
Look – no rain!
Outside the museum there was a tug boat we were able to go on before we headed into the museum.
Workin’ on the railroad
Great drawings and paintings in one of the rooms
This was their favorite part of the museum – a HUGE wall of things that opened, closed and moved when you rotated a wheel down at the bottom – all having to do with places and history in the Seattle area.
Back in the car, we ate dinner as we drove to the Museum of Flight. This museum was the most crowded, so we only stayed for a little over an hour – just long enough to look at all the planes and talk a bit about WW1 and WW2 . . .and show my daughters how little I really know about these. 🙁 Sage and I are looking forward to going back to this museum with her class at the end of the year.
Good thing school starts up again on Monday because the girls are exhausted from all this fun!