Minnesota Children's Museum

Earth World: Discover Minnesota's unique habitats up close.

As a unique exploratory-play exhibit, Earth World is designed to promote thoughtful interaction that allows kids to gain a deeper understanding of the natural world around them. Imagination and fun colllide in this interactive exhibit that puts immersive Minnesota environments like forests, prairies, and wetlands under one kid-controlled roof.

Habitot®: Creep and Crawl into hours of fun and fascination.

Toddlers love to reach, touch, creep, crawl, and cruise around in Habitot®, a world sprinkled with mats and pads for sensitive knees and toes.

Four tot-friendly Minnesota "habitots" including a prairie, cave, pond and forest, encourage toddlers and infants to safely investigate a fun, interactive, and experiential world created just for them. There are fabric flowers for plucking; mirrors for gazing; buttons for pushing; and peek-a-boo holes for exploring.

Our World: Explore community and diversity in a world teeming with excitement.

In Our World, unique neighborhood experiences encourage kids to connect, cooperate, and communicate. This gallery is a mini reflection of Minnesota's diverse neighborhoods and includes immersive, community-building experiences kids love.

Children can pretend to cook up and serve a meal to customers at the Korean restaurant; become managers or cashiers at the corner grocery store; drive all over town or anywhere else they imagine in the Metro Transit bus; and even perform current hits on the rock-star stage as they watch themselves on a video screen.

Rooftop ArtPark:

Visit Rooftop ArtPark, where nature and art merge in an immersive outdoor gallery located on the fourth floor of the Museum’s roof overlooking St. Paul. The whole family can dip their hands into the stream bed's cool water and create imaginative masterpieces in the sandcove.

Young visitors can scamper up the 12-foot tree fort and dance under the shadow dome, mimicking the shadows, shapes and movement of trees and plants.

World Works: Uncover secrets of the world in an environment loaded with fun and intrigue.

World Works is an action-packed, hands-on environment that encourages investigating, experimenting, problem-solving, and observing. Every area of this gallery is specially designed to foster observational skills and spark a passion for learning and exploring in children of all ages.