Connecticut Children's Museum

The mission of the Connecticut Children’s Museum is to provide children, their families and teachers with an arts and literacy-based, multiple intelligences-inspired, magical place, rich in resources and rooted in the community.

Description:
This majestic building, aptly named The Children’s Building, houses myriad children’s programs, all interwoven in purpose and philosophy. The Museum, through its Educational Field Trip program and family visits, serves as an informal learning environment, providing innovative, interactive and inclusive opportunities for each child to be a successful learner and every grown-up to be a brilliant mentor. The Creating Kids Childcare Center serves the childcare needs of area families. The Museum’s early childhood professional development programs complement the city’s energized efforts to professionalize the field.

History:
The Connecticut Children’s Museum was established in 1974 and has served as a children’s museum, a childcare center, a base for outreach programs and a site for a magnet school. When the Board of Directors of the Creating Kids Childcare Center assumed control of the Children’s Building in the summer of 1999, we recognized the importance of this building and its programs to area families and educators. Through a series of community-based ‘Inspiration Evenings’, the organizational acumen of the Museum Renaissance Committee and the work of a dedicated group of local architects, artists and builders, the Connecticut Children’s Museum was re-opened in January of 2001. It is an important strand in the tapestry of the downtown revitalization efforts, drawing thousands of families with young children into New Haven, and serving hundreds of early childhood education programs, annually.

Contact person: Sandra Malmquist, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (203) 787-9414

Address:

22 Wall Street New Haven, CT 06511 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.connecticutchildrensmuseum.org

Directions:

Take Interstate I-91 South. Take Exit 3, Trumbull Street. At the bottom of the ramp, turn LEFT onto Orange Street and travel 3 blocks to the brick building on the corner of Orange Street and Wall Street.. . . (more)

Last updated on September 21, 2009