We have until the end of December 2023 to see the Designing Motherhood exhibit that just opened at the Gates Foundation Discovery Center in Seattle and we all really need to see it. This powerful exhibit examines birth and pregnancy and our own relationship with the subject-we are all products of birth after-all.
What to expect from the Discovering Motherhood Exhibit
Because it is free you can easily breeze through the exhibit or even maybe spend an hour or more with the 200 objects related to motherhood. There are some interactive portions where you can think about family leave in our country, how we feel about contraceptives, and how we are related to birth.
It will not be the most universally comfortable exhibit to experience because the topic is birth so you have to figure out what your own comfort level is and there are many signs in the exhibit that address this. I will be bringing my teenage boys here at some point during the exhibition and probably would have brought them if they were younger as well. I think they might enjoy trying the baby wearing activity and I think they need to know more about birth-so as a mom of teens I’m definitely thankful for a museum exhibit that might also get more conversation started at home. There are also a few inventions from the Seattle area that are featured in the exhibit that I need to go back and check out.
Knowing that women’s rights are so precarious in this country is one reason why anyone who feels that women’s rights are important should visit this exhibition too.
Visiting the Gates Discovery Center
The Discovery Center is free to the public when it is open and it’s usually open Thursday through Saturday 10am-5pm and the first Thursday of the month until 7pm. It’s located at 440 5th Ave North and right across the street from Seattle Center. And if you have kids in tow you are also near one of the best playgrounds in the city.
Terumi Pong is a Seattle-based family travel writer and mom of twin teenage boys. She loves coffee and pastries, shopping local and looking for greener ways to live. She is also known as Scout’s mom (Scout is a 5ish pound little black yorkie-poo)
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