Minnesota Children’s Museum Camps

Minnesota Children’s Museum Summer Camps include hands-on engineering and design camps where children explore topics like robotics, carpentry, flying objects and architecture. Camp options include activities such as wiring a flashlight, constructing a propeller car, designing a bridge, building and testing simple rockets, learning basics of flight and propulsion, and participating in a simulated space mission. Additional camps focus on the performing arts, where participants use their body, voice and imagination to create characters and solve problems in sessions such as Acting Adventure: Enchanted Explorers and Acting Adventure: Super Sleuth Troupe.

• Ages: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Summer camps run in June, July and August, with weekly camps Monday–Thursday or Monday–Friday and limited one-day camps from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Price: $120–$430 per camp, with a 10% discount for museum members using code MCM2026

Specific camp themes include Creative Kids Club, Make it Cool with Tools!, Make it Superpowered!, Silly Storytellers, A Day in the Life: Junior Engineers, Ahoy, Engineers!, Astroneers, Crash Test Contraptions, Critter Carpentry, Engineering for Animals, Fling and Fly, Junior Robotics, Lego Engineering, Mini Golf Construction, Sci-Fi World Builders, Cardboard Creations: Fun House and LEGO to the Rescue. In Make it Cool with Tools!, children work with hammers and drills and use tools that squish, cut and connect things, while Make it Superpowered! includes lifting objects with a crane, using levers, using wheels and axles and making a force field. Critter Carpentry involves practicing woodworking skills, building a hedgehog using a hammer and nails, learning about sawing, sanding and drilling, and creating wooden creatures with wiggly arms and legs. Engineering for Animals focuses on creating adaptive equipment for animals with injuries or disabilities and inventing a way to rescue a pet from a tree. Fling and Fly includes constructing mini-catapults, flying saucers and rockets, and Junior Robotics involves exploring robotics concepts through games, wiring and building, programming roving bots to navigate a maze and designing and wiring a robot to bring home. Lego Engineering includes building elevators, wind-up cars and catapults with LEGO, exploring gears and pulleys and making a block print with LEGO pieces, while Mini Golf Construction has children design and build a mini golf hole and club, combine designs to create a mini golf course and play a round of golf. Sci-Fi World Builders has participants design elements of a sci-fi planet and customize designs with motors and LED lights, and Cardboard Creations: Fun House covers basics of cardboard construction to build a fun house with options like wobbly floors, mirrored rooms and secret passages. LEGO to the Rescue focuses on engineering rescue tools such as ziplines, catapults and air-powered systems.

Camps are led by an expert educator from The Works Museum or a teaching artist from Stages Theatre Company. Weekly camps with The Works Museum run Monday through Thursday, and most camps with Stages Theatre Company run Monday through Friday. One-day camps such as Cardboard Creations: Fun House and LEGO to the Rescue run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and pizza lunch is provided for these one-day camps. Prices include $235 for many listed camps with The Works Museum and Stages Theatre Company for non-members and $211.50 for members, $345 for Acting Adventure: Enchanted Explorers for non-members and $310.50 for members, $430 for Acting Adventure: Super Sleuth Troupe for non-members and $387 for members, and $120 for one-day camps Cardboard Creations: Fun House and LEGO to the Rescue for non-members and $108 for members. Museum members receive a 10% discount on camps by using code MCM2026 at registration, and need-based tuition assistance for camps is available for those that qualify.

Minnesota Children’s Museum partners with The Works Museum for engineering and design camps and with Stages Theatre Company for performing arts camps. Families are invited on the last day of Stages Theatre Company camps to a sharing of skills learned throughout the week. Minnesota Children’s Museum operates as a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit community organization and is funded in part with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008. The All Play program provides discounted tickets and membership to income-qualified families. The museum’s mission statement is that Minnesota Children’s Museum sparks children’s learning through play.

Last updated June 27, 2026.