Austin Children?s Museum in Austin, Travis County, United States | Museum

Welcome to Austin Children?s Museum, Austin, Texas, United States. Austin Children?s Museum is an essential catalyst and trusted advisor in a community that works together to become more creative, more inventive, and more competent. We elevate and cherish the child-adult learning relationship. We cultivate a community that embraces the love of learning, the thirst for knowledge and a respect for questions. In doing so, we play a vital role in equipping future generations and our society for growth, innovation and collaborative problem solving.
1983: The Austin Children?s Museum is founded as a ?Museum without walls? by a grass-roots coalition of parents and educators. Exhibits and programs are hosted in schools, parks, recreation centers, libraries, and malls.
1987: The Museum opens its doors with 5,000 square feet on West 5th Street.
1997: A successful $4.8 million expansion campaign leads to creation of the Museum's new downtown location at the Dell Discovery Center, Austin, Texas. The expansion was funded through $1 million in lead gifts, 81 donor gifts of $10,000 dollars or more, and a 10-year rent-free lease on the building.
More than 800,000 visitors have enjoyed exhibits and programs since the Museum doors opened at its current home in Austin, Texas.