"Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." John 17:3
Mike and I decided to take our kids along with lots of their cousins to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. It is the world's largest children's museum according to Wikipedia. Hard to believe, but that's what it says.
We started out at the Ruby Bridges exhibit. You get to see what life was like for Ruby in New Orleans in 1960 and conditions for black students compared to white students at the dawn of the civil rights era. You also learn about things like the drinking Fountain for “Whites Only.”
What Ruby's class room must have looked like.
Another big favorite for me was the exhibit for Ann Frank!! Talk about moving.
Again, according to Wikipedia:
Born Annelies Marie Frank 12 June 1929 Frankfurt am Main, Weimar Germany Died Early March 1945 (aged 15) Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Lower Saxony, Nazi Germany Nationality German until 1941 Stateless from 1941
The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the year the Nazis gained control over Germany. By the beginning of 1940, they were trapped in Amsterdam by the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of Anne's father, Otto Frank's, office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, were eventually transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both died of typhus in March 1945.
Otto Frank, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that Anne's diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl. It has since been translated into many languages. The diary, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from 12 June 1942 until 1 August 1944.
Her kitchen
Who doesn't love a Carousel?
If you're a rich kid you have doll houses like this!
OK, Egypt may be cool, but it isn't even safe to go there!
