Don't miss out on Seattle museums

"Seattle museums?!"

"No, please, no more museums! Anything but musuems!"

OK, so museums have a bad rap, especially where kids are concerned. Who hasn't been to a museum thinking it's full of cool items, only to discover that you'd rather be back in school studying for an Algebra test? I've been to a few of these museums myself and let me tell you that there are some that I would never ever want to subject my own kids to.

Anywhere but a museum...

Well, thank goodness Seattle has figured out a way to appeal to the whole family in the museum department because there are some cool museums that the whole family is going to love (take the Seattle Art Museum, for example), and some of the best museums I've ever been to have been here in Seattle.

We try to go to a new museum (at least one!) every time we get back to Seattle and what's great is that the kids actually look forward to visiting the museums.

No, really, they actually love learning at all the museums that we go to so it's something that we continue to do every visit.

What's great is that there are a bunch of different museums to choose from, no matter what you're interested in or no matter how old your kids are. There's everything from the Seattle Art Museum to the Pacific Science Center to the Boeing Museum. Like I said, tastes for everyone.

(And speaking of the Pacific Science Center, there are a ton of other "museums" at the Seattle Center that you can check out while you're there, such as the Seattle Space Needle, The Children's Museum, the EMP or Experience Music Project, and the Science Fiction Museum. Oh, yeah, and don't miss out on riding the monorail.)

So no matter what kind of tastes you (or your kids) have, there's always a museum in Seattle that will fit what you're looking for.