Mayborn Museum opens XOXO: An Exhibit About Love & Forgiveness

Baylor’s Mayborn Museum welcomed a new exhibit that is geared toward children and families about love and forgiveness. It allows for many interactive and fun activities for kids to be able to do.

The exhibit, XOXO: An Exhibit About Love & Forgiveness, opened Sunday Sept. 17. According to the Museum’s website, the exhibit was first created in 2014 by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and now has made its way to Waco.

Dallas junior Relie Roberts, a worker at the Mayborn Museum, said “there’s been a lot of people, but I’ve noIced that it’s been slower than most exhibits. Which is nicer for not only us but for the guests because it’s more interactive and not just hands on but emoIonally too.”

The museum wants to encourage children to take a deep breath and explore these powerful feelings and the effects they have on parIcipants and on others. The exhibit offers many activities from solving puzzles, drawing things that make the person mad and shredding it, as well as exploring empathy blocks. It’s a nice way to just breathe and enjoy everything, Roberts said.

“It was really nice to be able to see the exhibit and be able to do some of the acIviIes,” Chicago freshman George Allen said. “Being able to just go through and understand the message the exhibit was giving was very cool and very meaningful.”

The exhibit will run until Jan. 7, 2024, allowing for people to come visit until the new year.

“I would recommend people to come see the exhibit because it’s really cool to come with people specifically,” Roberts said. “It’s just nice to be able to take a breathe from the crazy busy world and your day to day lives and just be able to come in here and reflect on yourself and others and your relaIonship with people.”