Muncie Children's Museum

The Muncie Children's Museum provides fun through educational and interactive opportunities for children in a safe and creative environment.

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Are you enjoying summer produce yet? Encourage your children to learn about it using hands-on role playing! Shop at our mini market, then head to the Nutrition Kitchen to cook your meal. We even have a doll to help teach kids about digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems.

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Ready to explore a farm? Put a bridle on the horse’s head, gather eggs from the chickens, or milk the cow. You can even see how you measure up to the size of various farm animals on the wall chart.

Discover how these skills help children thrive: https://t.co/FGHb5C7tbA

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Are you excited about our upcoming exhibit upgrades? We sure are! We’ve got plans for the model train area, the water table, the ant wall, the weather barn, and a hands-on construction zone. See the other renderings and learn more about the improvements at https://t.co/ms0C7O4CsN

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Tomorrow, June 21, marks the first day of summer! Explore our Outdoor Learning Center to find the “Five Senses” garden, climb in the tree house, or count our resident turtles in the pond.

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Do you have a young virtuoso in your life? Encourage them to play our piano or the percussion instruments in our Musical Hallway!

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Join us all June for Brews & Bingo and you might just win the $500 grand prize! Make the rounds to local establishments and enjoy your favorite food and drinks while filling up BINGO squares. Get your tickets at https://t.co/AymKuI9aiX

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Did you know that we have live animals at the museum? Visitors can learn about rabbits, turtles, chinchillas, snakes, and more while seeing them up close and personal!

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Did you know that the museum sees over 40,000 visitors per year, from not just Muncie, but all over the country?

Join our campaign to improve our museum and provide education-rich opportunities to children in the Muncie community and beyond: https://t.co/D9ZzNnJSaP

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One of the hard parts of summer is the “summer slump”, where kids lose traction with learning. Keep your kids engaged in a relaxed environment by visiting museums like ours that combine fun, spontaneous play with skill building! Learn more at https://t.co/PMvqmruhSi

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For many kids, school just ended. But for some, this fall will be their first year as a student! Playing in pretend school this summer can help relieve fears and bring excitement to this new experience.

Does your family have anyone who will be new to school this fall?

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#TBT to when the Museum was younger – we’ve been around since 1977, then moved to our current location in 1996. Any guesses when this photo was taken?

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According to the National Academy of Sciences, consistent, cumulative learning experiences during the first 8 years of life shape a child’s long-term trajectory—that’s where we come in!

Help us expand our child-centered, play-based environments: https://t.co/vMnOemSx43

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After twenty-six years in our current location and over 1,000,000 visitors, our facility needs some upgrades. That’s where the More to Explore campaign comes in!

Learn more: https://t.co/vMnOemAWcv

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From a cross-country haul to a routine check-up, we love providing kids with opportunities to engage with professions through play!

Do you have any fond memories from our Big Rig, Veterinarian Office, Schoolhouse, or Doctor’s Office exhibits? We’d love to hear about them!

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We’re proud to help provide children throughout the region with new and engaging opportunities for play, and, through More o Explore, we aim to provide even more!

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Alongside a rebuild of the Model Train and a major expansion of the Discovery Park, we aim to create a new, hands-on construction zone exhibit!

Here, kids will be able to design and build several different components of a house, building valuable STEAM skills along the way!

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In the fall of 2017, our community raised $525,000 to complete the first phase of Discovery Park to help give kids access to new STEM learning opportunities!

With our new additions, we aim to provide even more fun learning activities! Learn more at https://t.co/vMnOemSx43!

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What’s your favorite MCM critter?

Whether it’s the turtles or the chinchillas, they’ll soon have a new habitat in our expanded interactive forest!

Improved ranger station exhibits, live animal habitats, and more are coming to Discovery Park: https://t.co/vMnOemAWcv

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Did you know that play can play a major role in a child’s success?

The American Academy of Pediatrics says play builds 21st-century skills, such as problem-solving, collaboration, and creativity, which require the executive functioning skills that are critical for adult success!

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We live in an ever-changing environment—and our new weather station will help teach families how to observe it more closely!

Visit https://t.co/52mIdFibCm to learn more about the interactive cloud activity and the multiple interactive components this exhibit will feature.