MINNESOTA CHILDRENS MUSEUM
10 West 7th Street, St Paul, MN 55102 www.mcm.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Minnesota Children's Museum is dedicated to providing children with a fun, hands-on and stimulating environment to explore and discover. The museum helps to instill a lifelong love of learning by nurturing the real-world skills children need to become engaged citizens in the future.

Sparking children's learning through play

Experience and Outreach: Play is critical, as it builds bodies and brains. Minnesota Children's Museum's experience and outreach includes all aspects of championing the power of play in our community and providing a high-quality visitor experience at the museum. This includes admissions, memberships, field trips and other group events, special programming, safety, operations, evaluation, community partnerships, access programs, parent resources, and other work to support and encourage playful learning both at the Museum and beyond the walls.At the Museum, the mission is sparking children's learning through play. (Continued on Schedule O)The museum's vision for the community is: Kids play more. Adults do, too. All families thrive as a happier, healthier and more innovative community through the radiant power of play.The Museum serves the community as a welcoming space for all families to engage in playful learning. Core to the Museum's mission is providing open-ended play experiences that not only delight children, but also help instill a lifelong love of learning by nurturing real-world skills children need. The Museum encourages parents to support their children's playful learning to maximize skill development in the critical early childhood years. There is a strong commitment to ensure all families have access to the museum through the Play for All program and improve the Museum's impact with families facing adversities through community partnerships. Free online resources for parents and caregivers are also available for all. Through this work, the Museum envisions a community that grows more inclusive as families play together and learn from each other.The Museum operates eleven galleries developed with the latest research in playful learning. The Museum is the leading producer of traveling exhibits for the children's museum industry, reaching 2.5 million additional visitors annually. The Museum's current portfolio consists of 15 active exhibits, which are rented to children's museums, science museums, and other family-serving entities across North America. The Museum's traveling exhibit program leverages the museum's core strength of producing engaging exhibits that foster children's learning.

Traveling Exhibit Production & Design: Includes exhibit maintenance for active exhibits on tour throughout North America, along with the design and production of new exhibits to build the museum's portfolio of traveling exhibits.

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