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.

¡ Holy Guacamole, Spring Break is almost here!

To continue our awesome lineup of Spring programs, celebrate your spring break fiesta-style at the Muncie Children’s Museum!

We’ll be reading “Dragons Love Tacos,” learning about Frida Kahlo, and making Frida-inspired artwork, along with several other crafts! And don’t forget to check out our virtual Spring Break Fiesta to be featured on our Facebook page! We’ll be sharing ideas on how to make your own salsa, making your own miniature piñatas, tortilla disc golf, and so much more!

When: March 24th – 27th

Where: The Muncie Children’s Museum in Downtown Muncie!

How: Visit munciemuseum.com for more information on times for in-person programming and our social media for ideas on how to have fun at home!

We’re partnering with the Muncie Symphony Orchestra to bring you Music on the Move, presented by The Indiana Arts Commission, The National Endowment for the Arts, and The Community Foundation of Randolph County.

Throughout the week, MSO Ensemble will perform 3 different pieces of music, to be featured on our website, Facebook page, and Instagram! You and your family can listen to each piece and then make an art piece inspired by the music. Then submit your pictures in the comments on social media!

On Thursday, March 25th at 10 a.m., your family can join Marcy Paul, MCM’s Director of Exhibits and Education, in a casual, personal, and interactive musical conversation with MSO Woodwind Ensemble on zoom. Questions can be submitted via a Google form link that will be sent to you once you sign up!

Sign up here starting March 18th: https://app.etapestry.com/cart/MuncieChildrensMuseum/default/item.php?ref=1145.0.451666039

Happy Holidays!

We hope to spend this holiday season with you and your family. Below are our holiday hours:

12/23-open 10am-12:30pm and 2-5pm

12/24-10am-12:30pm

12/25-closed

12/26-open 10-12:30 and 2-5pm

12/30-open 10am-12:30pm and 2-5pm

12/31- open 10am-12:30pm and 2-5pm

1/1-closed

1/2-open 10-12:30 and 2-5pm

It’s time again for Amazing Elf Adventure, one of the Muncie Children’s Museum’s biggest events of the year! But this time, we’re doing things a little bit differently…

Have you ever dreamed of becoming an elf? Do you want to learn what it takes to become one of Santa’s helpers? The word on the snow is Santa is planning on hiring new elves for this holiday season. Will you be one of the lucky few?

In partnership with Light Up DWNTWN, we are kicking off Amazing Elf Adventure on Thursday, December 3rd with the virtual tree lighting and an interactive scavenger hunt throughout downtown Muncie! Visit DWNTWN Muncie’s website for more information on this month-long event!

We will then launch a series of video scavenger hunts on our Facebook and Instagram pages for you and your family to enjoy, with the chance to win a grand holiday prize!

Introducing At-Home Elf Kits!

To bring Amazing Elf Adventure home to you, we will be selling Elf Kits to accompany our online elf hunt!

Kits will include an elf hat, your official elf license, mini candy cane, a bell, a coloring book, a Christmas craft, and a personalized video message from one of our elves to your child!

Kits are now on sale for $20 per child. Click here to purchase your kit today!

For More Information

Continue to watch our website  OR visit our Facebook Page and Instagram for details.

We would like to invite the community to our Day of Play!

A Day of Play is designed to bring the museum right to you through both fun and educational activities!

From Saturday, August 21st to Saturday, August 28th, you and your friends and family can participate in a list of 10 challenges (both at-home and at fun locations throughout Muncie) and try to earn a prize!

Sat, Aug 21st – We’ll kick it off via Facebook live @ 11 am – pick up your clues and Supplies at MCM 11-1.

Over the next 7 days, participants can work on completing the 10 challenges using the clues and supplies provided, wear their event t-shirts, and take a selfie or video when completing a challenge to share with the event Facebook group!

To finish the event, we will celebrate at the museum on August 28th. All participants will get a small prize. If all 10 challenges are completed, they can then enter into a drawing for the grand prize!

The event will cost $15 per participant or $75 per family of 5 or more. This fee will cover materials and supplies necessary, entry into a private Facebook event group, and a t-shirt for each participant. Registration will begin on Aug 2nd. The T-Shirt deadline is August 14th. The Facebook event page is titled “Day of Play”. This is a family event. At least one adult is required to register with the children.  Click here to register!

Thank you to our sponsors!

George Insurance Group

First Merchant’s Bank

First Merchant’s Private Wealth Advisors

Clark Insurance Group

Estep Burkey Simmons, LLC

For more information, visit our Facebook page @MuncieMuseum!

If you or your business is interested in becoming a sponsor for this event, please contact anderson@munciemuseum.com.