The New Children’s Museum
Hands-on contemporary art museum for kids inside a green-built downtown landmark of concrete, metal and glass.
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This guide to The New Children's Museum in San Diego follows Hannah Mykel, a senior play worker who spent four years listening to children shriek with joy on the ramps above her while earning under fourteen dollars an hour. On a Saturday morning in October 2019, she and forty seven coworkers stood in a hallway off the lobby waiting on a labor board official to read ballots aloud, the first museum staff in San Diego ever to try to unionize. Mykel loved watching kids discover the building's ever-changing, hands-on installations, even on a wage she could barely live on. Next time a child's shriek echoes off the concrete and glass above you, think about who keeps that ramp running.
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