The children's room at Pueblo Grande Museum and Cultural Park in Phoenix is a low-budget model of what a museum can do to interest young children. There are wooden blocks in a carpeted pit that the children can use to recreate a Hohokam site, if they are old enough to understand the functions of the various blocks, but they can just play with blocks if not. There's a model to hang jewelry pieces on, drawings on cheap paper that can be colored, and text on the wall to be read. The text is accompanied by historic photos and maps, so the level of intellectual communication can be quite high. I have seen pre-K and middle school kids playing in parallel, and both groups appeared fascinated. Roger Lidman is the director of the museum, and I'm sure could tell you more. Jannelle Warren-Findley Graduate Program in Public History Arizona State University