The Children's Museum of Cleveland

About

We closed our University Circle location on January 3, 2016 and and planning and fundraising are underway for our new future home in Midtown.

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A Museum Without Walls for Now: While we are working on the renovation of our future home, we will continue to bring entertaining and educational experiences to your children. Join us for Museum Without Walls!

Starting in January, 2016 you’ll find us at neighborhood libraries, other cultural institutions and regional events throughout 2016. We’ll bring to you programs and experiences that your children will love as they learn through play. Check our website for a schedule of our Museum Without Walls programs as soon as it becomes available. We’ll keep adding locations throughout the region as the year goes on.

Our Future Museum: Located on Euclid Avenue between E. 36th and E. 40th streets in Midtown, our future home will feature 12,000 square feet of brightly-lit exhibit spaces designed to develop 21st century skills: creativity, problem solving, communication and collaboration. It is a fully-accessible building and offers three times the number of free, public parking spaces as our current location as well as convenient access from I-90, I-77 and I-71,

Mission

In line with community, market, and societal needs, The Children’s Museum of Cleveland is dedicated to providing unique, innovative, and impactful experiences, exhibits, and education programming, within and outside of the Museum, that will foster learning and development in all children ages birth-8; with a special emphasis on birth-5.

To achieve this, The Children's Museum of Cleveland will focus on:
* Fostering creativity via exhibits and programming featuring the arts and the concept of invention.
* Being a key resource for parents/caregivers to learn about parenting and how to accelerate their children’s learning and development.
* Creating powerful tools to enhance school readiness and literacy within CMC’s early birth-5 target cohort.
* Playing a role as a valued strategic partner and collaborator, complementary to other regional early childhood stakeholders.
* Creating a forum and incubator where childcare, education, parenting and academic experts can access and train young families and help advance the field of early learning.
* Being a community resource for information and programming on health/nutrition/exercise.
* Providing an appealing “town center” where all children and families can interact.
* Providing an exciting introduction to the world of cultural institutions and lifelong learning experiences for young children and their families.
* Developing and disseminating a broad/deep portfolio of multi-disciplined education programming.

The Children's Museum of Cleveland is committed to meeting the needs of all children regardless of background or ability.

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We closed our University Circle location on January 3, 2016 and and planning and fundraising are underway for our new future home in Midtown, just three miles away. We anticipate opening Phase I of our future museum in late 2017.