Minnesota Children's Museum
Minnesota Children's Museum
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About this organization
Mission
At Minnesota Children’s Museum, our mission is sparking children’s learning through play. The museum’s vision for our 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.
About
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 in the museum and beyond.At the Museum, the mission is sparking childrenfs learning through play. The museumfs 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 helpinstill a lifelong love of learning by nurturing real-world skills children need. The Museum encourages parents to support their childrenfs playful learning to maximize skill development in the critical early childhood years. The Museum remains committed to ensuring that all families have access to the museum through the Play for All access program and efforts to improve the Museumfs impact with families facing adversities through community partnerships. 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, as well as a satellite location in Rochester. 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 entitiesacross North America. The Museum's traveling exhibit program leverages the museum's core strength of producing engaging exhibits that foster children's learning.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The filing sets forth the mission of the non-profit as “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.”.
When detailing its responsibilities, they were listed as: “Sparking children's learning through play”.
- The state in which the non-profit is legally permitted to operate is MN.
- The address of the non-profit for 2020 according to the filing is 10 West 7th Street, St Paul, MN, 55102.
- The number of employees reported by the non-profit on their form as of 2020 is 234.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$923,220.
- The organization has 40 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1979.
- The organization pays $5,203,927 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $550,399 in fundraising expenses.