Fuzzy Bus

If you’ve come to the Phillipines with your family, and you’re staying in the hotels of the capital city, Manila , you may wish to check out the Museo Pambata, the fulfillment of a dream for mother-of-four Nina Lim-Yuson, who wanted to bring a hands-on museum home to her native country after experiencing the Boston Children’s Museum in the United States.

Working alongside the former Department of Social Welfare and Development secretary, Estefania Aldaba-Lim, Yuson and Aldaba-Lim proposed a dream museum to the mayor of Manila, Alfredo Lim, who had returned from a meeting from Mexico City with other UNICEF Mayor’s about the Rights of the Child. He approved of the project, leading to the museum’s opening in the historic Elks Club Building on December 21st in 1994, a little over 15 years ago.

The Museo Pambata , which translates simply as Children’s Museum, contains eight themed rooms, all with hands-on exhibits encouraging exploration and the discovery of a variety of concepts as the kids play. The rooms include the following themes: Environment, Old Manila, Children in the Global Village. There is a theme room for career options and a craft room, a market place and a hallway dedicated to the Rights of the Child.

Your children will find a room dedicated to Body Works, where they may take a trip inside the human body in the form of a tunnel maze, helping them to understand how our various organs help our bodies function. Finally, there’s Science Through Discovery, where the kids may take a look at scientific principles. In this room, they will find one exhibit behind glass — an actual Moon rock from the historic expedition of Apollo 11, the first manned landing on the lunar surface.

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