Parents are encouraged to take part in exhibition activities with their children.
"We need to make an effort to understand how in a new age of excessive exhibition activity, where the definition of a museum's value to society is being measured via the attendance of a particular show, we can come together to emphasize research, which is what should be at the fore of our mandate," he said.
From Thursday through March 23 a steady schedule of performances will unfold in the armory's cavernous drill shed, and free exhibitions and activities will take over its historic period rooms, many opening to the public for the first time since a recent renovation.
Showing: 9 to 13 October, Arts Centre Melbourne (Fairfax Studio), Melbourne The Melbourne festival is staging a kids' weekend with various shows, exhibitions and activities for children, and I've got my eye on the world premiere of Ployglot Theatre's Trailblazer.
In Times Square, between 42nd and 43rd Streets, exhibitions and activities will be staged on Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. "Who Will Speak for the Trees?," a family art project with storytelling, will take place on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Wave Hill, the Bronx; free on Saturday until noon and all day Sunday; wavehill.org.org
Gradually, however, its 27,000 square meters, about 290,000 square feet, of factory floors, warehousing space and dark corridors are being turned into a full-fledged venue for music concerts, art exhibitions and activities ranging from martial arts and dancing classes to skateboarding on an indoor ramp.
Children's museums as an important institute should take up the opportunity to develop its children by understanding their needs and to propose the exhibitions and activities.
The exhibition's activities for children include a Create a Comic workshop for ages 10 to 13 tomorrow at 7 p.m. ($25; members, $20) and a Comic Book Extravaganza on Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. ($10 and $7).
Born in Macclesfield in 1968, Shrigley is shortlisted for his solo exhibition Brain Activity, at London's Hayward Gallery.
