The Children’s Museum is making big news with little people. We invite you to read our recent press releases to keep up on what’s going on at the Museum.
2019
Be A Part Of The Children’s Museum’s Holiday Display, The Tree-Riffic Festival!
Explore Sound in SONIC SENSATION at The Children’s Museum
LUZIA by Cirque du Soleil to visit TCM for a special butterfly release morning
The Children’s Museum Preschool Graduation Showcases Art, Music, Family
Butterflies Are Flying High at The Children’s Museum
What’s Better Than A Groundhog Day? A Groundhog Crawl!
Love Bugs are available at The Children’s Museum
The Children’s Museum Dime Bank Foundation, Inc. Provides Funding For The Children’s Museum’s Groton Homeschooling Initiative
2018
Gengras Planetarium at The Children’s Museum Celebrates it’s 50th Anniversary
2017
The Children’s Museum Elects Mark P. Milligan to Board of Trustees
Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and The Children’s Museum Join Forces to Bring Educational Seminar Series to Parents
Ground Breaking Ceremony for the Renovation of the Roaring Brook Nature Center
Viewing the Solar Eclipse at The Children’s Museum
Maximillian E. & Marion O. Hoffman Foundation awards The Children’s Museum $25,000 grant for Dinosaur exhibit
The Children’s Museum Providing Programs to Children & Families at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
Kids Can Compost opens at The Children’s Museum
The Children’s Museum awarded Petit Grant for a Hartford Girls-in-Science Camp
Welcoming Back the Winged Wonders
90¢ Night for West Hartford Residents at The Children’s Museum
Astronomy Day 2017 with Rocks from Outer Space
$225,000 Grant Awarded for Renovation of the Roaring Brook Nature Center
Summer Camp
Looking for a fun, educational experience for your children over April break?
Art Meets Science, A Partnership Between West Hartford Art League and The Children’s Museum
Connecticut Children’s Medical Center Executive Appointed to The Children’s Museum Board of Trustees
Dinosaurs in your Backyard: A Portal to Past Worlds Opening February 18
Celebrate Groundhog Day with West Hartford’s Cider the Groundhog
Children Invited to Join the Keepers Club at The Children’s Museum Wildlife Sanctuary
2016
Celebrating the Season with The Children’s Museum
Let It Snow
Visions
Veterans Day Special
Spooktacular
Smokey Bear & Woodsy Owl: Home Sweet Home Premieres at The Children’s Museum
The Children’s Museum Elects Two New Board Members
The Children’s Museum to Create New Exhibit on Dinosaurs and Connecticut
The Children’s Museum Elects Judith R. Rosenthal to Board of Trustees
Children’s Museum awarded Connecticut Humanities Grant for Community Whale Celebration
A Whale of a Celebration for Connecticut Families
Welcoming Back the Winged Wonders
Museum Awarded Grant for Summer Science Camp with Hartford Girls
Starry Safari: Astronomy Day 2016
Museum Receives a New Set of Wheels Thanks to Hoffman
Whale Tale: Send us Your Pictures of Conny
Expedition for Opportunity: Rohan Freeman’s Trek to the North Pole
Museum Receives $100,000 Grant from The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
You’re Invited to Conny’s Pre-Party with Nile the Whale
A Week of Visiting Artists at The New Children’s Museum during April Vacation
The New Children’s Museum Preschool Open Houses Offer an Inside Look
The New Children’s Museum Awarded Grant from Walmart for Family Programs
Jackson Laboratory Public Discussion March 10 on the Role of Sequencing in Cancer Treatment
Visiting Artists at The New Children’s Museum during February Vacation
Celebrate Groundhog Day with West Hartford’s Cider the Groundhog
Museum Opens New Exhibit: Now Eye See It
The Jackson Laboratory to Lead Public Discussion on the Human Microbiome and Family Health
2015
Discussion of Proposed Future Plans for UConn’s West Hartford Campus
The New Children’s Museum Preschool Open Houses Offer an Inside Look and Free Admissions Passes
Children’s Museum Awarded Technology Grant from Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
Celebrate the Season
The New Children’s Museum Invites Families to Celebrate at their Annual Spooktacular
The New Children’s Museum to Feature Boston Children’s Museum CEO as Keynote Speaker
New Planetarium Show and Discounted Pricing for Fall 2015
The Children’s Museum Welcomes New Preschool Director
National Federation of the Blind Day
Become an Engineer at Tech City
Where in the World is Conny?
The New Children’s Museum to Offer “Science Achievement for All” Programs to Manchester Students
The New Children’s Museum Elects Rohan Freeman to Board of Trustees
The New Children’s Museum spotlights America’s Space Agency with a new exhibit and Pluto update
A whale of a year at The New Children’s Museum
Release the butterflies
Discover the science of ceramics
Springtime is “super-small” in West Hartford
The New Children’s Museum announces Dr. Michael Werle as interim executive director
Celebrate “West Hartford Night” at The New Children’s Museum
The New Children’s Museum Elects Christie Pascavis to Board of Trustees
Framed Opens at The New Children’s Museum
Oil drum art collection expands at The New Children’s Museum
Framed Gets New Grants
2014
Cat-Fish II on display aside Conny the Whale
Tellabration, Celebration of story at The New Children’s Museum
It’s a Nano World at The New Children’s Museum
Fun “in season” at The New Children’s Museum
NASA Exhibit ‘Here, There, and Everywhere’ to Land in October
Leadership Changes at The New Children’s Museum
Enhance your curriculum with Homeschool Science Adventure Days
Metamorphosis for Critter Crossing at The New Children’s Museum
Full STEAM ahead as grants fund Framed Step into Art exhibit
Full Day Now an Option at West Hartford Preschool
Amazing Spider-man 2 Day at The New Children’s Museum
2013
Astronomy Day Award
Tinkering Tuesdays
Bugs and Butterflies Exhibits Open!
Imagination Playground and Thinker Linker Exhibits
2012
Let There Be Lasers! New Mars Madness Summer Attraction
Let There Be Lasers! New Mars Madness
Arctic Wolf Sighting
Feeling a Planetary Pull – It’s Mars Madness
The Children’s Museum Introduces “Wild Chimp Challenge!”
World Class Team of Professionals Vision The “New” Children’s Museum West Hartford Museum Announces Momentous Change
Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy Receives First Ever “Education Innovation Award
Forget “Spring Fever”… Catch “Mars Madness” at The Children’s Museum
The Future Unveiled at The Children’s Museum 16th Annual Gala
Preschool Perk: All The Wonder of TheChildren’s Museum
An Incredible Family Science Sunday Line-Up
New Videos The Museum Experience
Mars Madness March 28th at The Children’s Museum
Dinosaurs Breed Success at The Children’s Museum
Forensics Sunday February 19th at The Children’s Museum
Wolf Night Coming January 28th at The Children’s Museum
February Vacation Science Camp at The Children’s Museum
Holiday Weekend Features Dinosaurs at The Children’s Museum
2011
Dinosaurs Alive—Jurassic Treehouse Opens January 14 at The Children’s Museum
The Children’s Museum Celebrates Winter Solstice on December 17
Take a trip to the technology of our past on Old School Sunday
Hair Raising Experiences in store on Electromagnetic Sunday at The Children’s Museum on December 18
Fennec Foxes and “Momma” find permanent homes
New National Geographic Fulldome Show WILDEST WEATHER IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM set to Take Audiences on Journey through Space at The Children’s Museum–Opens November 25, 2011
Engineering Sunday features FIRST Robotics Team at The Children’s Museum on November 20
The Children’s Museum Preschool offers Science Workshop, Open House for 2012-13 school year
More than 50 animals taken from The Children’s Museum for safety after power outage
Science Learning is Fun at December Vacation Science Camp
Foxhound and the Baby Fennec Foxes she nursed are coming to The Children’s Museum for three weekends in November
Kidtoons Brings Spookley the Square Pumpkin To the Travelers Science Dome for six shows in October
New Members Join Board of Trustees at The Children’s Museum
Children’s Museum names new President and CEO!
