Discover the world of science and technology at the NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam – a perfect destination for a family day out.

The NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam is a must-visit destination for families travelling with kids. The museum’s interactive exhibits, hands-on experiences, and engaging workshops make it a fun and educational experience for kids and adults alike. In this article, we’ll take you on a guided tour of the museum, exploring each section in detail and highlighting the top 5 attractions and features. We’ll also provide information on pricing and value for families, and direct you to royalty-free images to fuel your travel inspiration.

Phenomena (Ground Floor)

The journey begins on the ground floor of the museum, where you’ll find the Phenomena exhibition. This area focuses on natural phenomena like light, sound, and electricity, allowing kids to experience and understand these concepts through interactive exhibits.
One of the highlights here is the “Chain Reaction” exhibit, which demonstrates how energy is transferred from one object to another. Kids can create their own chain reactions using various objects like marbles, dominoes, and other contraptions, making it an exciting and educational experience.

Machine Park (Second Floor)

On the second floor, you’ll find the Machine Park, an area dedicated to the world of machines and engineering. Children can explore exhibits that demonstrate how various machines work, from simple levers and pulleys to complex systems like cars and cranes.
A popular exhibit in this section is the “Build Your Own Roller Coaster” activity, where kids can design and construct their own miniature roller coaster tracks using foam tubes and connectors. This exhibit encourages creativity and problem-solving skills while teaching the basics of physics and engineering.

Water World (Third Floor)

The third floor is home to Water World, an area that highlights the importance of water and its role in our everyday lives. Kids can learn about the water cycle, water purification, and how water can be harnessed to produce energy.
The “Water Lab” exhibit is a particular favourite among kids, offering a hands-on water play area where children can experiment with dams, pumps, and waterwheels to understand the principles of water flow and pressure.

Humania (Fourth Floor)

The final section of the museum is Humania, located on the fourth floor. This area explores the human body, mind, and behaviour through interactive exhibits and activities. Children can learn about topics like genetics, emotions, and the intricacies of the human brain.

One standout exhibit in this section is the “You & Your Senses” experience, which allows kids to explore their five senses through various activities and tests. They can engage in activities like identifying smells, matching sounds, and testing their taste buds, providing a fun and interactive way to learn about the human sensory system.

Top 5 Attractions and Features:
1) Chain Reaction (Phenomena, Ground Floor): Kids can create their own chain reactions using marbles, dominoes, and other contraptions.
2) Symmetry Playground (World of Shapes, First Floor): Children can experiment with reflections, rotations, and translations to create symmetrical patterns.
3) Build Your Own Roller Coaster (Machine Park, Second Floor): Encourages creativity and problem-solving skills while teaching the basics of physics and engineering.

4) Water Lab (Water World, Third Floor): A hands-on water play area where children can experiment with dams, pumps, and waterwheels to understand the principles of water flow and pressure.
5) You & Your Senses (Humania, Fourth Floor): Allows kids to explore their five senses through various activities and tests.

Price and Value – Families:

The NEMO Science Museum offers various ticket options to cater to different family sizes and ages. Children under the age of 4 enjoy free admission, while tickets for children aged 4-17 cost €17.50, and adult tickets are priced at €19.50. The museum also offers family tickets, which provide discounted rates for groups of 4 or more, starting at €62.50.

Considering the variety of exhibits, hands-on experiences, and educational value offered by the NEMO Science Museum, it’s an excellent investment for families seeking an entertaining and enriching day out in Amsterdam. The museum’s focus on interactive learning and engaging content ensures that both kids and adults will have a memorable experience, making it a great value for the entire family.

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Sometimes when you travel, you literally stumble into rare stories that write themselves, chapter by chapter. Steeped in densely woven experiences that curiously and serendipitously unfold over time, the characters don’t even realise how engaging their narrative might be.
This story focuses on a Limpopo property, Walkers River Camp, approximately 20 minutes east of Hoedspruit, nestled just beyond the Timbavati gate of Kruger National Park. The owners, Howard and Ingrid Walker, and their sons, Steve and James, have been planting their seeds in the area for over 25 years, and, over the six nights we stay there, the pages turn.

It’s apparent that the Walkers have established a successful hospitality track record in Dullstroom, as the original owners of Critchley Hackle Lodge and Walkersons Hotel and Spa, but it’s their love for the bush where the beating heart of their tale starts, purchasing and renovating farm after farm in the area. Falling in love with Walkers River Camp in 2005, they embarked on a project that transforms a rundown camp into a home, and more recently, a private retreat. In the bar area, a wall shares framed photos of the many contributors of real blood, sweat and tears to transform the camp…only to see several years of hard graft washed away in a matter of days during the freak floods of 2012. 

Once again, as a family, and with a loyal team, they start over, restore the camp and improve it. Many of those photos in the bar still have mud on the back as the water rose to head height and sent furniture and their prized guest journals downriver. Some sofas and tables were later retrieved a few kilometres away.

The Walker twins have the bush in their DNA, schooling in White River, and gaining diverse experience in many camps and lodges in the area. The years of working the farm, building, renovating, and starting over are evident as they show us their new property, a birth child of the pandemic. As international travel ground to a near halt, the twins set to work to realise the dream of Walkers Safari Lodge with a team of four, building most of it by hand themselves, from floor to ceiling.

A sense of deep ownership and connection – perhaps it could be gratitude – radiates from them, glad to have been able to invest themselves into realising a new dream. Its flank of eight bedroomed modern country cottages hosts wooden decks with plunge pools and a majestic savannah panoramic of the Small Drakensberg. The main lodge on the centre is as wide as it is high with an open plan lounge, kitchen and dining area that spills onto a landscape deck. This is the quintessential view of grand African plains, scorched yellow grass, and the misty silhouette of mountain peaks in the distance. 

With this project nearing completion, we stay at the original Walkers River Camp, the boy’s former home, a horseshoe of five guest cottages overlooking a boma, swimming pool and, at the end of the lawn, a riverine. The game almost never stops moving. Giraffe and elephant investigate at close quarters, especially when they come right to the electrified perimeter fence. Nyala and impala vault the many wires from a standing start.

One of the co-rangers, Megan, a highly experienced trail guide of 16 years, who spends many days driving us feels like an extended branch from the family tree. Frequently, Megan comes and sits with us at the edge of the riverine, sharing stories as the wildlife roam freely and unperturbed. It’s as though they know and trust her and the team of warm and attentive staff there. On several occasions, elephants are just a few metres away. On another, we race out of the camp after one of the staff sees a leopard kill and we track the leopard to Megan’s glee. “I love my job,” she says on more than one occasion. 

On one evening drive, we see James walking casually across the savannah with his fox terrier puppy, ‘Djinn’. It’s impossible to tell the two apart, both sharing a passion for the environment in which they have grown up and remain. They share a lifetime of stories from all-night searches in the wild bush for their childhood dog, Pepper, to the day a pack of hyenas kill a leopard that approaches their den, or touch rugby with school friends in a muddy pan. They navigate the labyrinth of jeep tracks and long grass, like their backyard in order to pinpoint the big five, rare birds or recent kills – albeit a sprawling neighbourhood at 1100 hectares. 

They talk of bush mentors and family friends like author Mario Cesare and Mush Nicholls of Forest Creek Lodge planting the seeds of love for the bush in their parents, Howard and Ingrid, who harvested the crop, and replanted those seedlings of passion in their sons. A natural ring in a circle of life. Each generation paying it forward from the experiencing, learnings and teachings of those before them.

Walkers River Camp doesn’t want to compete with other properties – it has something that many cannot buy – a deep knowledge of the wildlife and the geography of the land itself.

All too often locations are selected and properties developed with investment in mind. Travel superbrands seek out the best beaches, or views, or city centrality. This leaves just a handful that organically emerges from an individual or family that opens their doors to share the deep beauty that they have sculpted over time, something that goes beyond financial returns and into a lifetime relationship. Whether it be the rich earthiness of Walkers River Camp, with its perpetually moving riverine of wildlife, or the up-and-coming modernity and luxury of Walkers Safari Lodge, with its vast savannah rolling like a red carpet in front of you, the reality of this story is that you have to read each chapter yourself, turn the pages and experience an immersion into something quite unique in Kruger. 

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