Leonardo’s Basement Workshops
Leonardo’s Basement, 2 Malcolm Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414
About
Leonardo’s Basement Workshops offers summer workshops where participants work on engineering, building, art, design, invention, and craft projects. The program focuses on having kids and teens design and build engineering, art, and technology projects in workshop, makerspace, woodshop, metalshop, and artstudio settings. Summer workshops include more than 20 different options, with sessions where there is not a cell phone or tablet in sight and extended day is available.
• Ages: 6–17 years old
• Schedule: Weeklong workshops with options Monday–Friday from June 15–August 31, 9:30–noon and 12:30–3:00 (no workshops the week of June 29)
Leonardo’s Basement Workshops is entering its 27th summer of creative project building. According to its mission statement, Leonardo’s Basement provides year-round workshop classes to design and build engineering, art, and technology projects in unique social and physical environments to help people of all ages develop personal and technical skills to become curious lifelong learners and successful human beings. The program describes itself with the phrase “Helping kids fail, since 1998.”
Last updated June 27, 2026.
• Ages: 6–17 years old
• Schedule: Weeklong workshops with options Monday–Friday from June 15–August 31, 9:30–noon and 12:30–3:00 (no workshops the week of June 29)
Leonardo’s Basement Workshops is entering its 27th summer of creative project building. According to its mission statement, Leonardo’s Basement provides year-round workshop classes to design and build engineering, art, and technology projects in unique social and physical environments to help people of all ages develop personal and technical skills to become curious lifelong learners and successful human beings. The program describes itself with the phrase “Helping kids fail, since 1998.”
Last updated June 27, 2026.
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