Remember what you wanted to be when you grew up?

A firefighter? A captain of a ship? A doctor? teacher? A mom?

"Children’s museums serve as town squares and build local capital. For children and families, the children’s museum has emerged as the community institution providing a unique, interactive environment where children and adults connect."
– The Case for Children’s Museums

Stimulating the excitement of learning

Development in the early years depends on providing young children with exposure to new and stimulating experiences; caring, responsive adults; and safe and nurturing communities. The Children’s Museum of Green Bay will encourage children to learn according to their own developmental readiness, in their own styles, by offering hands-on activities that allow them to tinker, experiment and observe. No child will fail here.

The multi-sensory exhibits will enhance curiosity, teach problem solving and encourage social interaction and communication. They will help children learn about the world around them, whether it’s running the grocery store, building a new house or cruising under the sea in a submarine. As boys and girls freely interact with the exhibits, they will develop curiosity and creativity, leading their own learning experiences.

This museum will ask children to ―Please touch. In this safe, creative and educational environment, children will develop self-confidence and social skills and experience different perspectives through role-playing.

Children’s museums create wonder by:

• Providing families with quality leisure activities where children and adults participate as a family
• Offering active, unstructured, open-ended activities that naturally promote learning
• Inviting visitors from near and far to a safe, hands-on environment where creativity and fun go hand in hand

Our collaborative process involves the community.

Whether it’s an exhibit, education program, outreach activity, festival or summer camp, our planning is a collaboration with many community groups and input from children themselves. Museum experiences complement and reinforce learning that occurs at school and home, when kids are building skills and knowledge in multiple ways.

Exhibits and programs are:

• Created and built by experts in the field.
• Evaluated for meeting age-appropriate cognitive, emotional, social, and problem-solving skills.
• Designed through a process that includes children and educators.