Healthy Fun

Healthy Fun

MCM’s health and nutrition gallery, Healthy Fun, demonstrates how body systems work, encourages physical activity and explores different kinds of food options. The museum partnered with health experts, educators, and advisers to create exhibits about the human skeletal structure and gastrointestinal system. These exhibits explicitly show how food and exercise affect a child’s growth and development. Each exhibit also incorporates an active component—an obstacle course, bike riding, climbing—as well as interactive activities.

Also, visitors are introduced to simple, fun, and rewarding ways to make better, more nutritious food choices, including picking fresh ingredients and eating a variety of foods to achieve a balanced diet. MCM’s goal is to introduce children to small changes they can implement now which will make big differences later on so they can grow up to be healthy and strong.

Kareem’s Dreamy Day

This exhibit is designed to teach children about healthy living and sleeping habits through nutrition, exercise, social wellness, and bedtime routines. Each of Kareem’s friends will teach guests about a different aspect of health so that they can learn to build their own dreamy days.

  • Climb with Cody into a 12-foot tree house climber, look through a periscope into a magical world, and slide down to the backyard.
  • Rest with Rocky and practice healthy bedtime routines to get a good night’s sleep.
  • Make meals with Mateo in a state-of-the-art play kitchen, where guests can learn how to pack a healthy lunch, practice cooking a nutritious meal, play with sizzling stoves and gurgling sinks, and discover recipes for a healthy day.
  • Practice mindfulness and learn sign language when you Play with Mei.
  • Exercise with Ella and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Fitness Instructors with an interactive exercise video made just for children.
  • Dream with Kareem in an artistic loft where guests can relax, dream, and use their imagination. Activities include listening to soothing nighttime sounds, reading a book in a quiet nook, exploring colors and worlds of glitter, and learning about sleep.

Ride the Trails

This exhibit, designed to teach children about physical exercise and heart health, features three specially designed, accessible bicycles that encourage visitors to engage in fun and active play. Children are invited to embark on an adventure with Rocky the Reader by pedaling through three immersive, local bike trails found within our community.

  • Practice riding a static bike, which comes in three different sizes, including one that is wheelchair accessible.
  • Explore three local bike trails in Jackson, MS.
  • Learn how to keep your heart healthy by checking your heart rate as you exercise.
  • Rocky the Reader provides motivational support as you ride each of the trails.

This exhibit is made possible thanks to support from the Jackson Heart Foundation.

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