Children's Museum, Denver

The Children's Museum of Denver is located in the Central Platte Valley. The Museum's mission is to create a community where children, newborn through age eight, and their grownups learn through play. Through interactive exhibits, daily educational programming and special year-round events, children are encouraged to explore, discover, create and learn.

A distinguishing aspect of the Children’s Museum of Denver is the commitment to developing and fabricating exhibits with an in-house team. To assure well-rounded and educationally sound exhibits, a full-time exhibit team works in conjunction with the education department to create and design new experiences. Exhibits are tested in WillitWorks, a prototyping area within the Museum where children and their grown ups can be directly involved in their creation.

The Children’s Museum of Denver offers educational opportunities for groups within the Museum and in the community at schools, organizations, festivals and more. School groups attend field trips to the Museum for facilitated educational programs, which can also be brought to the school classroom and taught by Museum staff. Programs are designed to support Colorado Model Content Standards in life science, earth science, reading and writing, math and music, in addition to Colorado's 21st Century Skills of self-direction, critical thinking, invention, collaboration and information literacy.