Minnesota Children's Museum Updates!

I attended the Minnesota Children's Museum SmartPlay Ambassador program kick-off meeting at the museum last weekend and had a great time! I met the other 2014 ambassadors, got to know them a bit and we learned more about the new and exciting changes coming to the museum for this year and beyond. 

The most exciting change is that the museum will be expanding and renovating and the artist renderings of the new museum look amazing. It won't be until 2017, but I'm already excited to bring my kids there (Sophie will be 9 and Jack will be 7-- so hard to imagine). The multi-story play structure in the middle is the most intriguing to me.

Another exciting piece of news is that the museum will have a Thomas the Train exhibit in June 2014! Almost every little kid I know loves, so this will be a very popular exhibit. I'm proud of fact that our local children's museum creates so many of the amazing traveling exhibits for other children's museums all around the country.

Other upcoming exhibits include the return of Creativity Jam in May 2014, the last round of Clifford the Big Red Dog in September 2014 (and then Clifford will be going into retirement) and Sid the Science Kid in January 2015.

Right now, the museum is featuring a brand new Dinosaur exhibit. My kids had so much fun climbing on the dinos and checking the place out. Sophie learned about dinosaurs last month in kindergarten and we've visited the dinosaurs at the Science Museum, so we thought this exhibit was perfect. Another exhibit that recently opened is called Native Voices and teaches kids about the Native American tribes in the state of Minnesota.