Tuscaloosa has a Museum Especially for Children

Tuscaloosa is a county of the center west of Alabama, on the banks of the river Black Warrior; his capital is the city of the same name, which with his 83.000 inhabitants lodges universities, schools and important hospitals. The city has a predominantly industrial activity since it is the hearth of the plant of international assembly of Mercedes Benz who settled here in 1997, in that luxurious sports vehicles take place.

Precisely here, in Tuscaloosa, there is Childrens Hands-On Museum, CHOM, dedicated to personitas from 0 to 13 years that find here a space where to see but especially to touch, to create, to experiment and to discover. It presents twenty-one explanatory spaces organized in three plants so that the children could learn by means of the game things related to the everyday life, the history of the United States, the art, the health and much more.

For example, the children will meet a market of fruits and vegetables, where his favorites will be able to choose, take them, weigh them, buy them and pay them. Another interesting space is that of Captain Tim Parker, who explains the importance of the river in the life of the city, for the transport and the fishing. Also they will be able to visit a village of the tribe Choctaw, traveling about the year 1700 and experiencing the everyday life of the original peoples, realizing your own ceramics pieces and touching real animals skins.

The Study of Art allows them to explore the visual arts and others, compose your own compositions or sculptures, disguise itself, see a marionettes spectacle, and up to getting inside a kaleidoscope. A recreation of the city in the year 1872 will allow them to know the ancient life style: the bank, the barber’s shop, and to know the importance of the drugstores at the beginning of the XXth century. There waits also the recreation of a typical house of the Japan, with a beautiful garden for the meditation, for the forest and the beavers, and to finish, the attic of the grandmother offers them disguises and objects of the everyday life of the XIXth century.

The CHOM is a community museum, which was born in 1984 from an idea of the schools of the county of Tuscaloosa with support of the University of Alabama; his rooms are designed to stimulate the curiosity of the children about his community and his place in this one, with the participation of the adults. At present it is a space recognized by the community, it has big educational prestige and it is an important tourist destination.

It is very easy to come to Tuscaloosa across interstate routes from Birmingham, Mississippi and Northport; or in plane since it has its own airport. If the idea is to remain, the city is provided with an accommodations fan for all the budgets. Eating will not be a problem: there are tens restaurants of all the styles, bars and coffees.

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