Why the Museum for Grown-ups?

One of my reasons for pursuing the Museum for Grown-ups to get adults back in touch with their childhood ability to learn new concepts through creative play and repetition. I thought it might be helpful to outline my thought process on why it is necessary for adults to become reacquainted with this idea of play and learning.

My museum concept is based on how children learn. One of the most prevalent methods of teaching children, and the method most commonly utilized in Children's Museums, is the idea that children learn through play. Play is how children experience their world and bring meaning to it... and it is through this medium that they are able to process new concepts and repeat ideas until it becomes part of their body of knowledge. Also, kids are free of many of the societal constraints or restrictions that bind and define the adult world... and it is this freedom that allows them to be more explorative and interactive with their world without worrying about bills, family problems, reputations, etc. These are things that worry adults and often hinder them from expressing creativity or interacting with their world and those around them.

So if kids all over the world learn through creative, interactive play, then it stands to reason that pretty much all adults, at some point, have experienced this. So therefore, by re-acquainting adults with play we are able to allow them to experience their world in a freer manner, get back in touch with the purity and inquisitiveness without worry or burden. Adults can then experience their world and bring meaning to it... therefore learning new and increasingly more difficult concepts, etc.