The Kimball

Today Caleb, Elise and I went to the Kimball. We parallel parked on the road between the Amon Carter and Kimball. You have to walk across a wide grassy area before you can enter the Kimball from this entrance. If you look at the picture, the Kimball is the building that looks like a bunch of greenhouses. Entering this way allowed Caleb and Elise to run around after being on their best behavior in the museum. Nothing is as appealing to Caleb as a clean slate of green grass. He liked being able to run around with his eyes closed without hitting anything.

There is one problem with parking on this side--no handicap ramps, so we ended up having to take Elise and her stroller up steps. Fortunately a museum man in a blue sports coat helped us up the last few steps. All of the museum people were very friendly by the way. The steps are wide and short, so it's worth it to go in on this side of the museum, especially since it is also the side with the big reflecting pool and waterfall.

Caleb kept asking if each statue was a bad guy or Goliath, except for one Asian sculpture with four hands. He said that one looked like Doc Ock. (from Spiderman).

Tips:

• Leave before they get bored. We probably only stayed 30 min. total and that included buying something at the gift shop.
• Give them a place to run and shout afterwards. In fact, have a back up plan if your kids seem tired, grumpy, or in a generally wrong frame of mind for looking at art. And, personally I intend to take full advantage of all free museums before taking my kids to ones I have to pay for.
• Caleb was good with just a few rules that we practiced ahead of time and talked about in the car: Don't touch anything. Do not stand too close to the painting. And do not point to close to the paintings. Oh, and Use your quiet voice.