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Show V 2 - The Daily Utah Chronicle Tuesday, January 10, 1995 jl NEW CLASS WINTER. QUARTER. Museum offers kids i When some people dunk of a museum, they think of a sterile environ-- ' ment with a policy. The Children's Museum of Utah breaks that stereotype and encourages children to use their imaginations with its hands-o- n displays. Exhibits at the museum, 840 N. 300 ' West, include optical illusions, a play hospital, a play ranch and obstacle mmm Mm.,. course that teach children what it is ' like to be blind or use a wheelchair. Museum staff member Mary Lou Humphry said that one of her favorites is an airplane cockpit donated by Delta Airlines. She says she enjoys watching the children play and if c seeing bow creative they can be. "It's interesting to hear them," she said. "One child wanted to go to Mars, and the other wanted to go to Texas." Children can also mimic their parents in their own "Kid's Town," a mock city complete with a bank, a grocery store and a gas station. The bank contains exhibits that show the value of various coins and bills. Some youngsters learn about the human body and shoot baskets in the Utah Jazz gymnasium. J The art exhibits, including three papier-macdinosaurs named Fifi, g, and are made by Clyde school children. The museum also houses live animals. Two gecko lizards and a tarantula live in glass cages and feast on crickets. : o Humphry feels that the museum is a good alternative to television and CHRONICLE PHOTO lamatlu video games because the children's Future health-car- e professional Daniel Wycoff gets some practice with ' creativity is not restricted. "They can open-hea- rt surgery at the Children s Museum. she be the to said. ; utmost," pretend Besides the exhibits, the museum them learn while having fun. Lewis located was formerly a bath house offers activities and workshops by staff does not limit his performances to chilcalled Wasatch Plunge. It contained members and people in the communidren. He says he also performs reguthe largest swimming pool in the ' United States and it used water from a ty. Some activities arc crafts, stories larly at local clubs. A ': and musical presentations.' ;, Upcoming events at the museum natural hot spring. i f' 1 arid Clint Lewis, a singer There is an exhibit on the second guitarist include a "bash the trash" workshop who is also blind, volunteers at the where U. theater professor Daniel floor of the museum with pictures of museum by doing children's concerts Elihu Kramer will teach children to the old building and pools. Some of and teaching them about blindness. make experimental musical instruthe pools still exist but are not accessifeels U. former a the Lewis, ments out of items that would normalstudent, ble to museum visitors, according to museum is important because "it lets ly be thrown away. Humphry. Some of the area will be kids be kids." He explained that it lets where the , The building see "museum" on page 3 museum is uch SOCIO-CULTURA- L R ANTHROPOLOGY OF TURKEY n i Onaran Incirlioglu Dr. Emine experience BY JOHN DRAPER Chronicle Staff Writer ' THE a hands-o- n Day : Tuesday & Thursday Time: 2:15-4:p.m. ST 215 10 Anthro 381 -- 2 Index : 9784 or Anthro 581-- 2 index : 9785 Jill 4' L. urn 4 '"Nt w wipiiiiiiiii? pplfIipli;lllti4: : I I iVJjU ctsE f 1 tzZuT) Salt Lake's newest name-bran- d clothing outlet: shipment just errived Huge Polo SAVE Name-branDRESSES men's & women's clothing d BLOUSES SKIRTS RUGBYS POLO SHIRTS COATS CHINOS JEANS JACKETS BUTTON FLANNELS DOWNS SHORTS SWEATERS AND MORE! PURSES r he Fing-Fan- v V' on regular price! 60-B-0 pilllfk lilBlSplllf :s;:;:;::::::;:;x::;.yc: " 1 & ::::::::::::::;::::::::::::: . y 1300 E. 3300 S. BRICKYARD PLAZA H ( N EXT T 0 T . J . v MA X X ) Ennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnfl , ik -- p fe $m$m toil' IK do taimfc ww i!U im (Ste mi M plliy 4 jiiiill ife. Jtoniy fiiii, mm mm llteta? mm M fnghi i j p i fc iDmn Mm C- - j |
