Animal Crossing Helps Teach Kids About Museums During the Pandemic
An Animal Crossing fan has thanked the game for helping to teach their child about museums during the pandemic. With the pandemic making it unsafe to be out in crowded spaces, many are finding that they get not just their entertainment but also some of their knowledge from video games. Even a game as mundane as Animal Crossing is proving to have educational benefits.
Animal Crossing, with its vast array of creation and discovery tools, offers gamers the opportunity to create and explore all kinds of different locales. While some have used this opportunity to recreate basic staples like a 7-Eleven, still others have made wildly inventive and fantastical structures and islands. For those just looking to relax and look at some art, though, the Animal Crossing museum, with its art wing and café expansions, offers the perfect place to do just that. As it turns out, that can also be informative, especially for those who haven’t visited many places in real life during the pandemic.
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Destructoid reported on a post by user capn_queso on the Animal Crossing subreddit in which the poster described how Animal Crossing helped teach their child what museums are when the family is unable to visit them during the pandemic. According to the post, the daughter, when asked if she remembered visiting any museums, responded that she had in Animal Crossing. Adults might not be terribly fond of Blathers and his overreactions to everything, and they have likely seen much bigger museums, but for some kids, digital attractions might be all they’ve known since the pandemic began. For this user’s daughter, it appears that the in-game museum left quite a strong impression.
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