I have piece in The Washington Post Weekend section today on various museums in the area that offer story times for children and families.

Story time at the museum
By Jessica McFadden
Friday, October 30, 2009
If you’re a parent or grandparent of young children, you have undoubtedly become a practiced bedtime storyteller, complete with voices for each character. And it’s very likely you’ve also become a regular at your neighborhood library or bookstore’s story times.
Full Article Here

And here are the museums with regular story times covered in the piece (all these story times I have added to the APISS events calendar too):

National Air & Space Museum
Thursdays & Fridays at 11 am, Saturdays at 11 am & 1:30 pm.

National Museum of the American Indian
Daily at 11am (includes discussion about a museum exhibit) and 1pm (included coloring activity.) Free, no registration necessary.

Kreeger Museum StoryTime
Second Thursday of each month 10-11am. $7 materials fee for the art project. Call to reserve one month in advance.

Alliance Francaise French Story Time
Saturdays 11:30am-12:15pm. For kids with enough French to understand a simple story. Free, call to reserve.

College Park Aviation Museum
Stories for kids ages 3 to 5 are on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Story and activity for school-age children every Friday from 2-4:30 pm. Story time is free with museum admission.

Maryland Science Center in Baltimore
Tuesdays at 11 a.m. for kids ages 3 to 5. Story time is free with museum admission.