1. Practice speed walking before you go. You will need to follow them everywhere, and they will not walk slowly, appreciating the history.
2. Don't attempt to read any of the information signs. If you are good at the art of dressing up boring activities, you can try to make the information sound fun but usually it will backfire.
3. Prepare some useful answers for questions about 'buttock ornaments' and naked statues.
4. Try your hardest to keep out of sight of the museum staff, especially when the boys are lying on the floor hooting at the people below through the vents in the floor.
5. Don't try to be a history teacher. While you are impressing yourself by explaining the intricacies of the Aztecs, they will be wandering off climbing the totem pole.
6. Smile at the people fortunate enough to be visiting without children. If you smile, they will be more forgiving when the boys push past them to see the bows and arrows or shout 'you can see that statue's bum cheeks!'
7. Walk through the inevitable 'you have to exit through it' gift shop as quickly as possibly shouting 'NO, NO, NO, NO, NO' until the boys realise you will not be buying them yet another wooden sword or fake gemstone.
8. Remember that one day you can go back and visit everything in your own leisure, including reading all the information signs.
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