Company Profile
The Children's Museum Group
Company Overview
The Children’s Museum's main offices, museum, and preschool have recently moved across town to a new location at 180 Mohegan Drive in West Hartford CT. We continue to offer hands-on fun with STEM/STEAM exploration for children and families, school and community groups, and home-schooled children. At the Museum, Nature Center, and Preschool and in classrooms throughout Connecticut, we encourage children to become creative thinkers and lifelong learners. All the while, supporting families and the community in their role in our children’s advancement. The Children engage in our interactive labs, workshops, multi-sensory exhibits and demonstrations, a live wildlife sanctuary, vacation camps, birthday parties, scout activities, and special events. Our unique Children’s Museum Preschool, co-located with our West Hartford Museum, integrates science experiences into early childhood learning and a play-based curriculum. Our nearby Roaring Brook Nature Center in Canton offers environmental exhibits, nature programs, concerts, and acres of outdoor hiking, bird watching, and winter cross-country skiing.
Company History
The Children’s Museum is a non-profit educational institution that strives to inspire life-long learning among children and their caregivers by providing experiential learning programs covering STEAM, health, nature and the environment. Founded in 1927 as a one-room natural history museum in The Pond House at Elizabeth Park in Hartford, The Children’s Museum is the fifth oldest children’s museum in the nation.
The Children’s Museum moved to its current location in 2022. It is unique in its cluster of components:
*The highly respected science-curriculum-based Children’s Museum Preschool was established in 1946;
*Former home to The Travelers Science Dome which opened in 1968 and closed in 2022;
*Roaring Brook Nature Center in Canton, established in 1948, which became part of The Children’s Museum in 1973;
*The Wildlife Sanctuary opened in 1981;
Sophisticated in-school and on-site educational programs aligned with Connecticut’s curricular standards; and
The museum itself with hands-on, minds-open, child-centered interactive activities.
Benefits
Employees of The Children's Museum Group receive an employee discount on gift shop merchandise, preschool tuition, and special event fees, and will receive their own museum membership which includes ASTC reciprocity.