At the new Bronx Children's Museum, walls flow and meander, rather than clicking around corners. Ledges dip into benches. Ramps spiral gently like ribbons of lemon peel. jdavidsonNYC reviews
since 2007 and was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2002. He is the author of Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York.It’s never simple for an architect to please a client, serve the public, stick to a budget, satisfy bureaucrats, and produce a pleasing whole, all at the same time.
It has taken $17 million and a lot of childhoods to get to this point. Kids who heard sugarplum promises back in 2005, when the project first started rolling, may have children of their own now. Even those who first climbed aboard the roving museum in 2011, or were assured in 2014 that the doors would open “,” could already be voters. Children grow up faster than adults act.
But step inside during a school-holiday Tuesday and the scene is one of cheery pandemonium organized around the theme of water. Budding hydraulic engineers cluster near a snaking river, piloting craft from dam to rapids. In another section of the museum, wannabe beavers gather rubber branches for a lodge.
Walls flow and meander, rather than clicking around corners. Ledges dip into benches. Ramps spiral gently like ribbons of lemon peel. In early photographs of the naked space, before it was filled with exhibits and populated by kids, the museum looks like it could be a wellness center in an expensive resort — all that silky blond wood, those sleek curves. Now that the little chaos agents have arrived, what endures from that meditative design is a sense of softened ebullience.
Ten minutes into my visit, a boy waylaid the museum staffer who was showing me around. “Do you work here?” he asked. “Why isn’t the snake moving?” Even before the staffer had had a chance to crouch and point out that serpents take naps, too, four more visitors had attached to the man like burrs to Velcro and our tour was momentarily suspended. Inquisitiveness takes precedence here. The pause gave me a chance to observe how astutely the design serves multiple generations.
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