4 Types of Museums to Explore with Your Kids

1. The Creation Museum and Ark Encounter
   This may not be feasible for some folks, particularly if you live a long way away, but if you live within reasonable driving distance, we’d love to have you visit! Where else can you go where you won’t have to fight secularist influences in every exhibit and can just let the kids read and learn? And kids 10 and under are free! If you want your kids to grow in their Christian walk, learn, and not have to worry about the exhibits or signs, the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter are the premier Christian attractions in the country.
2. Natural History Museums
   These, and the rest of the museums on the list, will require more work, though they may be less expensive than driving cross-country to visit us. There is a lot of good information in natural history museums and many of them will have dinosaur skeletons for kids to look at. However, the signs will also be filled with evolutionary bias and secularism. You will need to prepare your children in advance (hopefully you’re already teaching them to think critically) for the museum exhibits. You may also need to answer questions or give gentle guidance about the signage during the trip.
3. History Museums
   Often these are less work than natural history museums, although in recent years signage may have become more woke. There may also be some revisionism in the way the material is presented. However, history museums, particularly local ones, are a great way to connect your children with their heritage and their community. This is especially true if your family has a personal connection to the events in question. Growing up, we were told stories about our family’s connections to major historical events all the way back to the Revolutionary War. That had a major impact on the way I thought about history.
4. Art Museums
   These museums can be iffy. Because art has been heavily infiltrated by the woke and has historically been a very progressive field, you should exercise discernment before taking your children to them. Art may include depictions of people without clothes or genuinely disturbing, sometimes anti-Christian themes. You should fully vet museums like this to ensure that the content is appropriate for your children. However, provided you do some vetting in advance, giving your children access to truly great art (not the banana-duct-taped-to-the-wall slop that passes for art these days) can expand their horizons, particularly if they have an artistic bent.

Museums can be incredibly beneficial tools for helping your children learn and grow. However, you need to exercise discernment in preparing your children for the secularist dogmas that are hidden in many museum exhibits and signs. If well prepared or if you are ready and able to counter the indoctrination, then museums can be very useful as you teach your children to follow the Lord.

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