Minnesota Children’s Museum Camps

Minnesota Children’s Museum Camps include activities such as exploring the performing arts, using actor tools like body, voice and imagination to create characters and solve problems, and telling stories inspired by books such as “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” “Where the Wild Things Are,” “Rosie Revere, Engineer,” and “The Dot.” Campers take part in hands-on engineering and design, robotics, carpentry, flying objects, architecture, and using tools that squish, cut and connect things. Some sessions include Dramatic Mysteries at the Museum camp activities such as evading red herrings, dodging evil foes and solving mysteries, as well as exploring and telling humorous stories like Elephant, Piggie, Pigeon, and Dragons Love Tacos, and using hammers, drills, levers, wheels and axles, lifting objects with a crane, and making a force field.

• Ages: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Week-long, full day spring break camps Monday–Friday 9 a.m.–4 p.m., plus four- or five-day summer camps with half-day sessions and limited one-day camps in late June and early July
• Price: $211.50–$430.00 per camp, with museum members saving 10% using code MCM2026

Spring break camps are taught by a professional teaching artist from Stages Theatre Company, and summer camps are led by an expert educator from The Works Museum or a teaching artist from Stages Theatre Company. Spring break camps and summer theatre camps include a Last Day Sharing on Friday from 3:30–4:00 p.m., where families and guests are invited. Each student is asked to bring a labeled water bottle, two snacks, and a lunch each day, with no refrigeration or warming available, and to wear comfortable clothes suitable for movement and shoes with backs; costumes for Last Day Sharing are allowed but not required and should be comfortable and easy to move in.

Students should check in no earlier than 15 minutes before camp starts and must be signed in and out each day by an adult, with students only released to an authorized adult. An adult must stay with any student who arrives earlier than 15 minutes before start time, and if a student is not picked up within 15 minutes after class and the museum has not been contacted, emergency contacts will be called. If a child is going to miss a class, parents are instructed to call 651-225-6056, and there are no make-up sessions.

Minnesota Children’s Museum states that its mission is to spark children’s learning through play. The museum partners with The Works Museum and Stages Theatre Company to bring some of their camps to Minnesota Children’s Museum Camps and offers need-based tuition assistance for camps through Stages Theatre Company’s Open Door Program and through applications submitted directly to Stages Theatre Company or The Works Museum. Campers receive free admission to the museum, and a flyer offers $2 off admission for adults and other children, valid anytime between the start of camp through the summer, and campers can stay and play on the last day of camp or return later and still be free with the flyer. The museum’s All Play program provides discounted tickets and memberships to income-qualified families, and Minnesota Children’s Museum is funded in part with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund created by a vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008. Minnesota Children’s Museum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community organization and is described as a leading producer of hands-on rental exhibits for children’s museums and discovery centers.

Last updated February 23, 2026.