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  • Family Fun Night - Sweetheart's, Stories & Sweets Feb 14, 2025 4-6pm Members - Free Non-members - $10/person

  • The Children's Museum is OPEN for President's Day! Open Monday 2/17 and Tuesday 2/18 9:30 am - 3:30 pm

  • February 2025! Family Programming at The Children's Museum

  • Winter Business Hours: Wed-Fri 9:30am-3:30pm, Sat 1-5pm, and Sun 10am-4pm. CLOSED Monday and Tuesday

  • Meet The Children's Museum's new ambasador Groundhog 'Tulip'! The museum is open Wed-Fri 9:30am-3:30pm, Sat 1-5pm, and Sun 10am-4pm.

The Children’s Museum in West Hartford

The Children’s Museum’s mission is to provoke lifelong experiential learning and innovation among children, adults, and their communities. We do this by offering hands-on fun with science and nature for younger children, their caregivers, community organizations, and schools. At the Museum and in classrooms throughout Connecticut (and beyond), we encourage children to become creative thinkers and lifelong learners. Children engage in our interactive demonstrations, workshops, multi-sensory exhibits, wildlife sanctuary, and other special events. Our unique Children’s Museum Preschool, located within our West Hartford campus, integrates science experiences into early childhood learning. Nearby Roaring Brook Nature Center in Canton offers animal and environmental exhibits, nature programs, birthday parties, scout activities, concerts, hiking, bird watching, cross-country skiing, and is home to our Wildlife Clinic.

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Wild Life Sanctuary
PreSchool
Roaring Brook