Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art
Chicago Scenic Studios, Inc.: This fall, eight months after the flood and with help from many different teams, the Museum reopened better than ever, with redesigned and reimagined exhibits to serve the Museum’s audience.
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I grew up in museums, surrounded by the ever changing landscape of art and those who created it. Perhaps I was spoiled in this way. Still, despite my awareness of this anomaly, I always find it curious when I hear people of all ages mention how uncomfortable or out of place they feel inside museums, surrounded by the big blank silence of everything and the sense that all of this "art" is so very important for absolutely no real reason at all. To me, this is all just the reality of the situation. I have grown to feel comfortable within the awkwardness of it all, to experience the sense that I am just as watched as the paintings on the walls with joy rather than disdain. And the fact that I feel this way is in my mind a testament to the importance of children's museums, to the vital lesson of interaction which they teach young could-be creators. Settings like these foster an ease of interrelation between the observer and the displayed which can carry that child into the next stage of his or her life, supporting an appreciation of the arts and a culture of museum-going which seems to be quickly dying out in this age. Maybe I'm biased. Maybe I'm the only one who still hugs the guards at my local fine arts museums, the same guards who once walked a younger me to my car when I attended classes in the associated art school down the street. But I couldn't care less. Children's museums are as important as the art which hangs in any adult gallery, for they are what raises its observers. To think otherwise is to deny those galleries a profitable future.
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