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Minnesota Children’s Museum has 26 years of experience in the children’s museum industry, and 16 years of experience booking and traveling national exhibit tours. During the past 26 years, the Museum has served more than 5.1 million children and adults through on-site visits and an additional 7.7 million through traveling exhibits. The Museum continues to grow and develop as an industry leader.

The Museum serves the children’s museum field through its well-established traveling exhibits program. We are recognized for producing exhibits that are educationally solid, beautifully designed, expertly produced and conscientiously maintained while on tour. Our staff members create experiences that spark children’s learning through play. By educating ourselves about children’s development, educational theory and standards of the formal education system, we build developmentally appropriate educational activities into each exhibit component.

Current Touring Exhibits

Curious George™: Let's Get Curious! Letting curiosity and inquiry be their guides, visitors explore familiar buildings and locales from the Curious George™ book series and television show on PBS KIDS in Curious George™: Let's Get Curious! The exhibit presents key concepts in science, math and engineering, which are woven and layered throughout the exhibit. Activities invite visitors to learn like George - through direct experience and problem solving!
Adventures with Clifford The Big Red Dog™ Adventures with Clifford The Big Red Dog™ transports visitors to the world of Clifford, Emily Elizabeth and all of the residents of Birdwell Island. Like tourists visiting Birdwell Island, visitors will start their journey to the exhibit aboard the Birdwell Island ferry, complete with seagull sounds and clanking ship bells. During the adventure, children and adults will discover Clifford's Big Ideas - 10 simple, tangible, life lessons designed to help young children navigate their world.
Jump to Japan: Discovering Culture through Popular Art a project of The Freeman Foundation Asian Exhibit Initiative Discover aspects of Japanese culture through people, things, situations and stories depicted in works of Japanese art. At the heart of the exhibit are environments and activities that present a broad depiction of Japan - traditional and contemporary, urban and rural, past and present, fantastic and realistic.
The Amazing Castle™ As visitors explore The Amazing Castle and its eight themed areas, they are introduced to seven storybook characters who are part of the castle community. From entertaining to sewing, each character has a special role. As they move through the castle, village visitors playfully explore the interconnectedness of community members in a setting inspired by fantasy and history.
Go Figure! Throughout this hands-on exhibit, five popular children’s books are brought to life in gigantic reproductions of the artists’ original illustrations. Inside each large-scale book, visitors find an attached copy of the featured book, a math based interactive relating to the book’s narrative, and tips for parents on supporting their child’s early explorations of math concepts. Exhibit components are modular and easily adapt to a variety of gallery layouts.
Run! Jump! Fly! Adventures in Action™ Featuring the theme of action adventures popular in children’s books and movies, Run! Jump! Fly! Adventures in Action™ inspires young people to get physically active. The exhibit invites visitors to step into scenes right out of action adventure stories and jump into action star training – play activities that build strength, coordination, balance and endurance. Visitors climb a canyon wall, balance on a “snow” or “surf” board, pedal “flycycles” and practice kung fu stances.