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Building the #MetKids Time Machine

Aliza Sena, associate coordinator for Digital Learning, shares the design inspiration behind the #MetKids Time Machine.

As you may know by now, #MetKids was made for, with, and by kids. That means that when we decided to make a time machine to explore The Met collection, we needed to hear from kids like you about what it would look like and how it would work.

Our trusty #MetKids Advisors rose to the challenge, drawing and sketching a world of time-travel devices. Countless clocks, buttons, gears, maps, and switches later, we had a good idea of what you wanted to see, and understood the importance of time traveling through millennia (that's a cool word that means thousands of years) in style.

Here are some of the brilliant designs that inspired us:

Time Machine Drawing by Franklin, age 9

Drawing by Franklin, age 9

Jeremy's Time Machine

Drawing by Jeremy, age 10

Time Machine drawing by Sophia, age 8

Drawing by Sophia, age 8

Time machine drawing by Seobin, age 12

Drawing by Seobin, age 12

How do these drawings match up with your idea of a #MetKids Time Machine? Let us know in the comments. Happy time traveling, #MetKids!


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