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When your job is growing up, the most important thing you can do is explore your world. It starts with fingers and thumbs and gradually expands to brightly coloured toys, then maybe to sandboxes and potato bugs. We want to bring the world to our children, but sometimes parents stop short of visiting museums. The museums will recover from a little boisterousness, and there are ways to visit at a low cost — many waive their fees on certain days of the month. Here are five for you to consider.

The Redpath Museum, part of Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, is a treasure trove of hundreds of items, including dinosaurs, Egyptian mummies and a rock garden fit for budding geologists. You can prepare for your visit by reading the origin stories of some of the exhibits on the website. A famous origami artist and mathematician folded the giant Pteranodon, and a man with a passion for shells donated his entire 7,000-specimen collection.