What is a children's museum?

Children's museums, unlike more traditional museums, offer objects and materials for children to use and manipulate. Exhibits are carefully chosen to enhance children's creativity, curiosity and unique learning styles.

In a little more than 100 years, children's museums have changed the learning landscape for children, families and communities. They are now among the assets a strong community offers its children. Across the country, in hundreds of communities, they are a kind of town-square where children and families play, learn and grow.