Brooklyn Children's Museum is the first children's museum in the world, lying in Brooklyn Park, New York. It was set up in 1899. The museum has created a good environment for children to be educated through their own experiences, doing things by themselves so as to help the children to know the outside world. The entrance to the museum is a cockled metal tunnel galvanized, where a water channel is designed, and large-typed current water controlling equipment models such as water wheels, water gate, etc. are designed. Around the channel is a huge Fool-typed maze, inside which are models of greenhouse-jungles, windmills, steam engines, model tanks and so on. In it there are all kinds of more than 50 thousand objects and samples in a variety of subjects, which show the law of natural development and the course of cultural development of human beings through exhibition. Children may have classes, do exercises and experiments and sometimes may have activities such as visit

   I was only seventeen when grandma Elsie died. She was my last living grandparent and I was her only grandchild. Until the lawyer read her will, I never fully appreciated the depth of the old lady's love. It was a moment I will never forget--a day that made me the richest kid in town.

  Mom, Dad, Aunt Sophie, Uncle Bill and I sat around a small conference table in her attorney's office. She wanted her daughter's and their husbands to share what little monetary wealth she left--the proceeds of her small insurance policy, an antique cameo, a few bracelets, some costume jewelry and her wedding band. She also bequeathed them the deed to her house, her bank account, a few shares of stock in the local Gas and Electric Company, as well as the America flag she was presented with at Grandpa Edwin's military funeral.

 

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