United Nations
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"Very informative"
Love the outside: the flags (we played but where is the French flag!), the gun sculpture and all the other sculptures they have and that I can not remember.
Inside: I wish I could tell you how good the tour is, but well, I can not! We arrive early afternoon and the tour were all booked for the day. So this is definitely a visit that you want to plan early morning.
The cool factor: you can post your postcard from the post office downstairs with UN stamps and mailed from the UN post office!!! Not sure if any of our postcard receivers noticed but I was happy to do it!
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"A good and informative tour"
There used be a time when you could roam in the beautiful UN gardens along the East river. Alas no more can you do that but you can get a peek into the chambers where the world body meets. Parents beware, babies are not allowed into the tour. My mom watched our tot in the chapel while we went on the tour!! Its informative and kinda cool to see the aging chambers in which the general assembly and security councils meet. A nice place to stop by. The bookstore is cool too. There is also a cafe and post office inside the building.
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"Fun with the Family"
Technically, this eighteen-acre complex is not part of New York or the United States but is an international zone with its own security force and post office. Founded in 1945, the 185 member nations meet to promote world peace and self-determination and to provide humanitaian, economic, and social aid to the world. Tours are offered daily in several languages.
Take a moment to look at the poignant exhibit of artifacts from the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If the General Assembly is in session, you’ll be able to listen on headsets as delegates debate and discuss their ideas, while being simutaneously translated from or into English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese.
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"The United Nations"
The UN is a great place to take older kids who happen to be curious about the international world. That might mean high schoolers. Since the UN is actively in operation, there is a sense of immediacy and that is missing in a museum. There are tours that can take you around the various conference rooms.
The rooms and building structures are abit dated and feel like some odd '60s sitcom. The neutral Scandinavian countries funded the UN's creation after WWII since their treasuries were relatively intact.
Fun fact: Did you know that the UN has its own stamp for use only in the UN's own special postal zone?
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"Full of history"
There is a lot to see and learn here, but you definitely want to keep it to older (school-age) kids here.
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