Airports are like fine upscale mini-malls. Viewing the different collections is a great way to spend time between flights. Art collections adorn many of the mall areas with everything from the History of Air Flight to Western Art of the Southwest. Many travelers spend hours browsing the art areas to look at the latest exhibits. Traveling Art Shows are popular with some of the larger airports. For the last twenty years Phoenix Sky Harbor has had public art displayed in terminal four. Philadelphia, PA has the Exhibitions Program providing artwork in the terminal for those traveling through the city of Brotherly Love.

If you are traveling with children and you have a layover in the Mobile Regional Airport there is a Children’s Art Village and Art show. There are gifts and other services available for the children while visiting this area of the airport. This is a great way to see and do things with your child while experiencing a layover. Atlanta has a puppet-filled display for the children. Be sure to see it when visiting this busy airport. Boston brags about its playtime area designed by the Boston Children’s Museum. Denver has a big art museum for the little ones with airplane sculptures for them to examine.

San Francisco is another great airport for traveling parents and weary children. They have a museum with huge rotating exhibits. The exhibits are a pleasant addition to the terminals. There are also a several nice aquariums in the San Francisco Airport. The aquariums are there to teach children about the many different kinds of ocean life. This airport is so child friendly that it may be worth the time to schedule a layover in this airport just so that you and your children can enjoy the terminal. Spending time in this busy airport will make any layover a welcomed bonus.