The museum will open officially with 120 children entering the museum!. The whole International Playschool in Pynikki with children ranging between 3-6yr olds are going to come as our first field trip group. What better way to open a childrens museum than welcoming 120 kids?
Our guest of the day for the opening ceremony is Irene Roivainen from Tampere city and UTA, Lasse Paananen from Luova Tampere and others.
We will post the details of the opening weekend and the activities we are planning for that weekend soon...Stay tuned!!!
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Matikkamanse
Matikkamansen Sirpa Haapaniemi ja Tuija Husu kävivät vierailemassa ja juttelimme mahdollisista matematiikkaan liittyvistä näytösesineistä. Heillä oli ideoita varsinkin geometristen palapelien suhteen. Näistä voitaisiin saada varsin mielenkiintoisia asioita ihmeteltäväksi ja mietittäväksi.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Paloauto
Mittasimme ovien kokoja, ja jouduimme toteamaan että seinän sisään piilotettu ovi on avattava.
Tampereen aluepelastuslaitoksen Veijo Kaján sai meille lainaksi ihka oikean paloauton!
Kokoa on paloautolla aika lailla, rakennukseen sisälle mahduttaminen vaatii jonkin verran työtä.
Auto tulee esille näkyvälle paikalle, hankala sitä olisi piilottaa :)
Olemme hyvin innoissamme tästä.
Tampereen aluepelastuslaitoksen Veijo Kaján sai meille lainaksi ihka oikean paloauton!
Kokoa on paloautolla aika lailla, rakennukseen sisälle mahduttaminen vaatii jonkin verran työtä.
Auto tulee esille näkyvälle paikalle, hankala sitä olisi piilottaa :)
Olemme hyvin innoissamme tästä.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Brio, Klein bottles and Dinosaur bones
What do all of them have in common? None what so ever. Just wanted to update on those three exhibits that are in progress. Brio (Thank you Ms.Kati) very graciously sent us lot of tracks and trains for the 3meter long Finland train table. We painted it this weekend and today its standing on its legs!!! Just a little more painting and gluing the tracks left before trains can make their way all around the country. Dont know about kids but I can't wait to play with it (I mean try it out).
We found some really cool Klein bottles and ofcourse had to get one along with one that is sliced in the middle to show how it really does look like a Mobius strip. This company is in Oakland Ca. When the order went in, the confirmation email came with a note:
"A reasonably intelligent (well, not overtly stupid) person (namely me) will read everything over before filling your order. I won't charge your credit card until I actually box up your Klein Bottles and they're ready to go out the door."
Never recieved such a funny note in an order confirmation email. Once the order got shipped, got another email with another funny yet memorable note saying he just came back from a bike ride to the postoffice mailing the stuff. and in the end of the note was
"I dinged your credit card for USD$xxx. And in case you collect digits, the credit card authorization ticket is xxxxx".
And the literature they included with the Klein bottle was equally funny and special. Thank you Cliff for making the whole deal a fun exercise. We can tell you love your work!!. Haven't seen such a sense of humor in product sales and as promised the Klein bottle is awesome.
Did I mention we are also building a 3.5meter long T-rex wooden puzzle? each piece is light enough for even a 3yr old to hold yet the details Richard put in are amazing. As usual, I got to paint the pieces and the paint we used have a very nice texture.
I wonder if I am giving away all the surprises!!! Nah! there's plenty left:) have a good week everyone
--Sheela
We found some really cool Klein bottles and ofcourse had to get one along with one that is sliced in the middle to show how it really does look like a Mobius strip. This company is in Oakland Ca. When the order went in, the confirmation email came with a note:
"A reasonably intelligent (well, not overtly stupid) person (namely me) will read everything over before filling your order. I won't charge your credit card until I actually box up your Klein Bottles and they're ready to go out the door."
Never recieved such a funny note in an order confirmation email. Once the order got shipped, got another email with another funny yet memorable note saying he just came back from a bike ride to the postoffice mailing the stuff. and in the end of the note was
"I dinged your credit card for USD$xxx. And in case you collect digits, the credit card authorization ticket is xxxxx".
And the literature they included with the Klein bottle was equally funny and special. Thank you Cliff for making the whole deal a fun exercise. We can tell you love your work!!. Haven't seen such a sense of humor in product sales and as promised the Klein bottle is awesome.
Did I mention we are also building a 3.5meter long T-rex wooden puzzle? each piece is light enough for even a 3yr old to hold yet the details Richard put in are amazing. As usual, I got to paint the pieces and the paint we used have a very nice texture.
I wonder if I am giving away all the surprises!!! Nah! there's plenty left:) have a good week everyone
--Sheela
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Another successful event at Ideapark
Yesterday we were at ideapark. We took last time's favorites - Bernoulli blower, trains and Fun flystick. We added the "Chinese Spouting Bowl" and "Theramin" to the list. Richard also set up a Microphone for kids to sing and set up the amplifier such a way the output sounds quite funny. All the exhibits have been a blast and was a good mixture for little ones to adults. Theramin is the only musical instrument in the world that's played by not touching it. It was quite fun watching the children just wave the hands and giggle when its makes sounds.
Most of the visitors succeeded in making the water "jump" with the Chinese Spouting bowl. But we forgot the camera so don't have any pictures to add to the blog:(
Most of the visitors succeeded in making the water "jump" with the Chinese Spouting bowl. But we forgot the camera so don't have any pictures to add to the blog:(
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Article in Aamulehti and Press Release
Yesterday was an exciting day for us. Two major things happened yesterday.
First article about the museum came yesterday in Aamlehti - big regional newspaper. It was a big article too. We need to scan it and post it here soon. The news suddenly made the museum a bit more real.
City of Tampere issued a press statement yesterday regarding the Opening of the museum. http://www.tampere.fi/tampereinfo/viestinta/tiedotteet/2010/5nnrhAQO3.html
42 more days to go to the opening. and we will be in Ideapark again tomorrow from 11am - 3pm. Come check us out. We are bringing 3-4 exhibits that can fit into a car to play. One of them is a cool one to make water jump in a bowl!!!
more news soon....
First article about the museum came yesterday in Aamlehti - big regional newspaper. It was a big article too. We need to scan it and post it here soon. The news suddenly made the museum a bit more real.
City of Tampere issued a press statement yesterday regarding the Opening of the museum. http://www.tampere.fi/tampereinfo/viestinta/tiedotteet/2010/5nnrhAQO3.html
42 more days to go to the opening. and we will be in Ideapark again tomorrow from 11am - 3pm. Come check us out. We are bringing 3-4 exhibits that can fit into a car to play. One of them is a cool one to make water jump in a bowl!!!
more news soon....
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Museum opening date and location and...
Sorry about not posting since New year. It only means that we have been busy getting everything lined up!. We have the grand opening date for the museum....Pencil it in everyone...
Its April 9 2010 at 10am!!!
Just 44 more days left for the opening and ofcourse so much to do before that. We also have our first team member joining this monday - Richard. He is a wonderful teacher in our local International Playschool. He is a musician, awesome teacher, knows his science, great with kids and very very creative designer and builder and puts kids safety first before anything else. What else can we look for in a team member who will be working on children's exhbiits and be with children every day? He has been volunteering his free time to build a couple of exciting exhibits. Welcome aboard Richard. and a big Thanks to Shawn Rizzo, director of International playschool in Pynnikki to be so understanding and helpful and let us steal one of her longstanding employees.
Luova Tampere has been helping us with networking, marketing plans and branding. A special thanks to Liina Kangas for all the help she is giving us from setting up meetings with all important people around the city to help us find a builder who can build the birthday rooms and gift shop in the museum.
And we are planning for a grand opening weekend. Friday it will be the official opening but on saturday we are planning some fun stuff. We will post more on this as time come closer so please do watch the blog. And we promise to post more often from now on so we can update everyone what exciting things are happening from now till THE DAY:)
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