Justine Roberts

SKYLINE is a 2,500 square-foot exhibit designed to engage families in social learning. The activity in the exhibit is free-form construction using pre-drilled wooden struts and triangular braces, real nuts and bolts, and pieces of fabric with lined...

Wow. This new exhibit is beautiful, fun, surprising, sophisticated, and cool. The room itself is divided into 5 main areas. The entry experience is a giant wall and floor filled with falling multicolored digital confetti. As you get closer the...

The Mill City Museum may be small but it packs a big punch. It is dense, fascinating and highly effective. The massive former industrial General Mills mill ran from 1880-1965. After 25 years sitting empty, it burned down in 1991. Today’s museum...

Dublin is still a very low city so the 7-story tall Guinness Storehouse has a terrific view. They are well aware of this. In fact, the culminating moment in any visit to the factory museum is the Gravity Bar where visitors exchange the token they...

Storyville is not all that different from many children’s museums. It is a sweet little exhibit that harnesses the power of kids’ imaginations and solicits spontaneous storytelling and character development. The space consists of a series of...

I return to Riveropolis again and again as a point of reference and inspiration. Strictly speaking, Riveropolis is a temporary water feature by artist Gregory Gavin. What makes it charming and special is that the sculpture is actually co-created by...

Mass MoCA is about 3 hours from where I live and I travel with three small children, so it takes a compelling show to get me there. You Art What You Eat: Food as Art Material in Kidspace, the museum’s hands-on family gallery, did not disappoint. The...

Deep inside the relatively traditional National Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine in Oslo is the truly surprising and powerful exhibit experience: Klima X. Visitors begin in an ante-room where they trade their walking shoes for tall yellow...

Touch any book you want, and make any paper document available to the public in a robust form appropriate for unfacilitated exploration. That is the promise of this fabulous technology pioneered by...