Portland Childrens Museum

This was one cool place to take a couple of two / three year old boys. On top of all the great things below there was: a ship, a grocery station, a farm section, a veterinary office, a treehouse that covered three stories, a space display and much, much more. It was a great way to spend the afternoon.

The third floor had a Ranger Room with some live and some stuffed critters. Slater loved this snake puppet and spent a great deal of time tromping around with it and showing it to everyone that entered the room. There was also a live honey bee hive and a huge turtle tank.

The museum has an entire enclosed toddler area (a mom's dream come true). Jade and Kelly played in there for half an hour, but also got out and enjoyed following their brothers around to the "big kid" displays. As always Jade's favorite activity was Slater watching and he kept an eye out for her too.


LLBean had a fish stream on the third floor. Jade liked to climb the bridge and watch Slater play. He was busy sorting fish, arranging bars to change the stream flow and climbing the rock wall.

The fireman exhibit was extremely popular, the truck was two child-size stories high, contained a fire-pole, turn out gear, hoses, stairs, steering wheels and an entire display of fireman equipment.