FREE: Entrance Days in the National Parks

W H A T :    Free Entrance Days in the National Parks
W H E N :    September 24, 2011
W H E R E : Participating Parks (by state)

UK Play Day 2011

PLAYDAY is the national day for play, traditionally celebrated on the first Wednesday in August.

+ British Library Playground Games

P L A Y T I N E R A R I E S : Playgrounds Worth A Trip

Parque Gulliver in Valencia, Spain
Adventure Playgrounds
Puckelball Pitch in Malmö, Sweden
Showa Kinen Park, Tokyo
City Museum in St. Louis Missouri

P L A Y T I N E R A R I E S : Bay Area

Best playgrounds in the Bay Area

The list and comments have some favorites (Adventure Playground, Yerba Buena Gardens, Children’s Park) and new finds we’ll try in future itineraries:

• Always Dream Play Park
• Berkeley: Totland, John Hinkel Park
• Danville Parks
• Healdsburg’s Giorgi Park
• Napa: Playground Fantástico
• Pleasanton Parks
• San Francisco: Presidio, Walter Haas Playground

Missing favorites:

• San Francisco: Alta Plaza Park
• Sonoma: CornerStone (Children’s Garden, Stone’s Throw)

And of course the best playground is always in the neighborhood park

P L A Y T I N E R A R I E S : Modern Playscapes

A constant destination in our itineraries, hard to find nice playgrounds…

An Introduction to Modern Playscapes | Blog | Slideshow
Designed for Play | Slideshow

YERBA BUENA NEIGHBORHOOD FAIR

C I T I N E R A R Y : VIENNA

A R C H I T E C T U R E

• 20ER HAUS
• Az W: Architecture Center Vienna (Architekturzentrum Wien)
• Hundertwasser Architecture
• KUNST HAUS WIEN | Museum Hundertwasser
• Hundertwasser House
• District Heating Plant
• Modern Architecture & Design
• Secession
• TopTours: Architecture close up: The Architecture Center Vienna offers new tours to the most remarkable buildings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

“IN”-PLACES

M A P S

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VIENNA CITY MAP

M U S E U M S

• MQW: Museums Quartier Wien | In | KIDS GUIDE

The MuseumsQuartier is one of the ten largest cultural complexes in the world and offers more than 60 different cultural facilities. More than 60,000 square meters of space provide plenty of room for modern and contemporary art and culture – and lots of exciting activities for kids.

• Az W: Architecture Center Vienna
• DSCHUNGEL WIEN | Theater for Young Audiences
• KUNST HAUS WIEN. Museum Hundertwasser
• KUNSTHALLE
• LEOPOLD MUSEUM | kids | virtual tour
• MUMOK | kids
• math.space
• ZOOM Kindermuseum
• Albertina
• Belvedere
• Chocolate Museum | Schokolademuseum
• House of Music
• MAK | Museum for Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
• Museum of Fine Arts
• Natural History Museum
• Shoe Museum | Schuhmuseum
• Technical Museum | Family

P L A Y S E E I N G | SIGHTSEEING FOR FAMILIES:

• Prater
• Schönbrunn: Things to know:
• Kindermuseum: Here you can find out about the kind of world the imperial children lived in, a time wheel will tell you the difference between a child of the imperial family and one from the middle classes. You can play with the toys from imperial times and learn the secret language of fans or lay the table for an imperial banquet!
• Maze – Labyrinth – Labyrinthikon
• Strudelshow: Bakers to the Crown
• Zoo Vienna
• Cooltour4Kids

SHOPPING with/for children

TRAVEL | ACCOMMODATIONS | Family Special

V I D E O : Children of the World

ARTISTS & FARMERS

at a favorite play place, Cornerstone Gardens:
SONOMA PROJECT
video ARTISTS & FARMERS: *the SHEPHERD & the DOLLMAKER* (teaser) from TINBIKE on Vimeo.

CAMP ITINERARIES: The Playborhood

Turning a neighborhood into a playground

Let’s Play in Spanish!

W H A T: Free concert for kids with Susy Dorn
W H E N: Saturday, October 3rd, 10:15
W H E R E: Mountain View Library, map

Let’s Play in Spanish is a fun learning program that kids just love!