Muncie Children’s Museum had a wonderful time at Magic at Minnetrista: Total Solar Eclipse. Throughout the three-day celebration, nearly 1500 visitors gathered at Minnetrista Museum and Garden to experience the total solar eclipse! Thank you to Minnetrista Museum and Garden for their partnership of this celestial celebration! We would also like to take the time to thank the Simons Foundation and its ‘In the Path of Totality’ initiative for their generosity and support.

Muncie Children’s Museum will have the temporary mini exhibit highlighting the solar eclipse open throughout the month of April. Special thanks to our sponsors: Simons Foundation, NISE, Rotary Club of Muncie, Psi Iota Xi – Alpha Chapter, and Tom and Carol Gardiner. Make sure to stop by to check it out along with our exciting new exhibits, the water table and model train exhibit.

What connects Muncie to other cities in the United States? At a surface level, it may not be much. But for a few minutes on April 8, 2024, those of us #InthePathofTotality will be connected by a total solar eclipse — visible to more than 30 million people across the U.S.

Muncie Children’s Museum is excited to offer a new Temporary Mini Exhibit along with scheduled activities prepared for our visitors to explore and learn more about the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse. Make sure you come check it out!

Follow our Facebook page for more information on scheduled solar eclipse activities.

Do you love our weekly activities, looking for a discount on a birthday party, or want to visit other museums while on vacation? Consider a Muncie Children’s Museum membership which is good for a year of family fun at the Muncie Children’s Museum!

For more information, please visit: https://www.munciemuseum.com/programsevents/

Join us at the Muncie Children’s Museum for these 2 fun-filled family events!

For additional information, please visit: https://www.munciemuseum.com/programsevents/

There’s MORE TO EXPLORE at the Muncie Children’s Museum in 2023!

For the first time in 25 years, the Muncie Children’s Museum has embarked on an exciting fundraising campaign to reinvigorate this long time staple in Muncie, Indiana. Since 1977, the Muncie Children’s Museum has provided fun educational and interactive entertainment for children of all ages with numerous unique play areas. We are so grateful for our wonderful community and are excited to announce we’ve already raised over $2.6 million! Check out the renderings of our new model train layout and water table coming mid-summer/early fall 2023 to the MCM!

We are still seeking donations of any size to help us meet our goal! You can help us reach our goal of $3 million and play a part in creating new educational and fun areas kids can enjoy for years to come. For additional information on future exhibit changes or to help support the More to Explore Campaign, please visit http://moretoexplore.net

Throughout the year, we have had many visitors and Museum friends ask how they can help! You asked! We answered!

Thank you so much for supporting the efforts of the Muncie Children’s Museum and our Giving Tree!

You can purchase and donate items on our Amazon Wish List https://a.co/iGLlpu1

Or

Stop into the museum during the month of December and pull an ornament from our Giving Tree to find, purchase, and donate the specified item.

Items fall into four categories

Animal Care (Ball ornament with orange string)

Exhibit Needs (Gingerbread ornament with red string)

Cleaning Supplies (Tree ornament with blue string)

Unrestricted Donations (Star ornament with green string)

If you take an ornament from the Museum tree, please take an in-kind gift form with you so that we can send you a thank you note.

If you take a monetary gift ornament, please take a giving envelope with you to return your gift to the front desk or mail back to the Museum. You can also make online contributions here https://www.munciemuseum.com/donations/ and designate your gift to any of the four categories.

We wish you a happy holiday season!

From the Museum Children’s Museum Staff

Thank you to our sponsors: Friends of the Muncie Endurathon and the Hamer D. And Phyllis C. Shafer Foundation!

Check out our calendar for more information on specific activities!

In keeping with current requirements for Indiana schools, the Muncie Children’s Museum will continue to require masks for visitors age 8 and over for the safety of our visitors and staff. We will evaluate our mask requirement on a monthly basis.