Port Discovery Children's Museum

Our mission is to connect purposeful play and learning.

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Towson dance students join us for some singing and stretching.

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A Dormouse appears to be laughing as it sits on top of a yarrow flower. The amusing photograph, taken by Italian photographer Andrea Zampatti, in Italy, shows how the heat had a strange effect on this little critter. Photograph: Andrea Zampatti/HotSpot Media

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Happy mouse!

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The girls from Takoma Park making their watercolor butterflies!

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We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

― Charles Schaefer

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“Life is more fun if you play games.”

― Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald

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art comes in all colors, shapes and flavors.

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THIS IS A CAKE!

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Kid President meets the REAL President!  See the video tomorrow @ 9am PST / 12 Noon EST - Only on our youtube page!  http://youtube.com/SoulPancake

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Curiosity’s Parachute Flaps in the Martian Wind

Apart from being a minor curiosity and a lovely reminder that we have satellites capable of observing temporal weather events on another planet, these flapping events may help explain why the Viking landers’ parachutes still remain visible from orbit since their landing in 1976 — windy events dust-off the bright parachute material. Also, the motion of a large piece of fabric on the surface of Mars provides a direct view of the weather conditions on the ground, much like a windsock on an airfield provides pilots with general information about wind direction and speed.

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This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

― Alan Wilson Watts

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“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”

― Plato