I spent some of today with ds (8) at this exhibition - "The Heart"
It was astoundingly good - one of the richest and most inspiring things I've seen in this country ever. Broad idea is to show what a "heart" can mean from every perspective & discipline you can think of - medicine and art and the history of ideas and music and anthropology and more - and ds spent a wild hour (which was all we had - nothing like enough) charging from exhibit to exhibit in a sort of frenzy of fascination. Me too.
My favourite was the shape of a heart as built up from MRI scans (so not-quite a heart - just what MRI can tell you, remotely), cast in silver, with branching arteries like silver seaweed - an unfathomably beautiful thing. Ds specially liked the real working heart-lung machine - size of dining table & twice as high - and imagining that what that was doing was only what's inside his own chest. And the compare-a-whale-and-a-hummingbird-heartbeat graphic wall.
The standard of ideas and curating is superb. I'd go and see anything there ...
PS: the website says it's really meant for at least age 14. However, ds at 8 was totally up to it.