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Special events
The Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota is all about hands-on play and unique programs and events. Read below to learn more about what is happening in the Museum. If you would like the Museum’s upcoming events delivered to your inbox, click the button below to join our mailing list!
Special events at the Children's Museum
STEAM Explorers
STEAM brings together a powerful combination of skills, techniques, and experiments! Join us weekly on Friday mornings to explore a variety of STEAM related child-led play activities! …
Sensory Awareness & Accessibility Playtime Night
These quarterly events invite children with sensory challenges or other special needs and their families to experience and enjoy the Museum free of charge at a time when there is a limited number of visitors present. …
Math Happens
Join us each and every weekend for Math Happens! A Math Room is a welcoming, hands-on space where visitors of all ages can explore math through play, puzzles, and discovery. Activities are designed to spark curiosity and invite open-ended exploration – no worksheets, no pressure. Just joyful, creative encounters with math in a comfortable setting. […] …
Math Happens
Join us each and every weekend for Math Happens! A Math Room is a welcoming, hands-on space where visitors of all ages can explore math through play, puzzles, and discovery. Activities are designed to spark curiosity and invite open-ended exploration – no worksheets, no pressure. Just joyful, creative encounters with math in a comfortable setting. […] …
Baby Play
Join us on the Infant and Toddler Play Porch! With a goal to support first-time parents or those who are caring for an infant, the Museum staff – who have a background in and a passion for early childhood development, will offer content specific to our birth to two age range. Although topics such as […] …
Bookmobile
The North Mankato Taylor Library Bookmobile makes weekly stops at the Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota on Wednesday afternoons from 2-3pm. Join us for story time on the Lauri Kuch Memorial Stage each week! …
Mini Med School with Mayo Clinic Health System
Join Residents and Providers from Mayo Clinic Heath System for a one-of-a-kind playful experience in the world of medicine! Mend a teddy bear at the casting and suturing clinic, look at x-rays and build a full skeleton, use microscopes to look closely at bones and skin and dress up like a doctor and try out […] …
Social Emotional Learning with MSU Graduate Students
Join us for a three-part Social Emotional Learning series, created in collaboration with MSU’s Counseling & Student Personnel Department in the College of Education and the Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota. Each month the Mental Health and School Counseling Graduate Students will join us with a different SEL activity for families. …
Faith Belt Studios Shadow Puppet Show & Workshop
We are so thrilled to invite you to the Museum to welcome artist Faith Belt for a Shadow Puppet Show and Puppet workshop! Join us Thursday afternoon from 4-5pm in Cecil’s Imagineering Loft for 2 short performances – one at 4:00pm and one at 4:30pm followed by a short show and tell from Faith on […] …
STEAM Explorers
STEAM brings together a powerful combination of skills, techniques, and experiments! Join us weekly on Friday mornings to explore a variety of STEAM related child-led play activities! …
Mini Med School with Mayo Clinic Health System
Join Residents and Providers from Mayo Clinic Heath System for a one-of-a-kind playful experience in the world of medicine! Mend a teddy bear at the casting and suturing clinic, look at x-rays and build a full skeleton, use microscopes to look closely at bones and skin and dress up like a doctor and try out […] …
Faith Belt Studios Shadow Puppet Show & Workshop
We are so thrilled to invite you to the Museum to welcome artist Faith Belt for a Shadow Puppet Show and Puppet workshop! Join us Thursday afternoon from 4-5pm in Cecil’s Imagineering Loft for 2 short performances – one at 4:00pm and one at 4:30pm followed by a short show and tell from Faith on […] …