Keeping your balance and losing your balance are a big part of growing up.  Understanding how balance plays a role in science, engineering, cultural traditions, and art is fundamental to learning.  The Balancing Act exhibit weaves a tapestry of multicultural and science-based activities for children to experience different aspects of balance firsthand, including constructing a mobile from fanciful shapes, levers and

counterweights; walking a tightrope; playing stacking games with featherweight blocks; operating a teeter-totter for plush toys; building a balance and motion machine of runways and ramps; and creating artwork based on ideas of harmony, scale, and aesthetic balance.

Balancing Act was developed and produced by the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, in partnership with the Youth Museum Exhibit Collaborative.

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Balancing Act is the tenth exhibition in the Museum’s Chase Gallery, our new home for visiting exhibitions, generously donated by Chase. The Chase Gallery hosts a changing schedule of new traveling exhibitions from across North America every three to four months.