Museums can be fascinating, but for children particularly they can be rather boring. Children are interactive learners. One museum however understands this and is doing something about this problem. The Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, has hired a Dutch Designers named Maaike Roozenburg to 3D scan and print many of the objects found within their walls. More details on this story can be found here: http://3dprint.com/8980/3d-printed-museum-replicas/

What they do is 3D print molds, and then recast the objects with these molds, allowing museum-goers to handle the replica objects. Below is a picture of one of these replicas: