Seattle Children's Museum

The Seattle Children’s Museum is a mission-driven institution with a forty-year history, making a fresh start and a building a dedicated team. We are located at Seattle Center, with 18,000 square feet of exhibit and program space. Working collaboratively, this energized museum staff develops programs and procedures for the practical implementation of the Museum’s core values, mission, and purpose. Together we welcome all visitors, create high quality exhibits and programs that foster play-based learning, and grow the museum’s reach, producing lasting impacts for the region’s children and families.

Guiding Principles:

·      Our mission is to engage children, and the people who care for them, in playful, creative, hands-on exploration and discovery.

·      Our purpose is to encourage kids and adults to embrace active, lifelong learning. We create and maintain museum spaces, events and programs that are inclusive, equitable, engaging, playful, and fun for ALL of our region’s kids and families.

·      We envision a region where children, families, students, and educators have a wide network of facilities to support them in learning, engagement, play, and quality time together. We will do our part to be part of that network.

·      In all things, the Children’s Museum staff, board and volunteers will value:

o  Joyful Learning for All

o  Respect for All

o  Inclusivity, Equity, and Engagement for All

o  Community Building for All

o  Sustainability at All Scales

o  Curiosity at All Levels

·      Our goals:

o  Set the stage for young children to build competency through engagement, interactions, physical challenges, and hands-on experiences

o  Renew a deep commitment to fostering literacy, art, language, numeracy, civics, and communication skills for kids from birth to 10 years old

o  Connect to Seattle’s varied and diverse neighborhoods

o  Create and renew exhibits that have justice, equity, inclusion, diversity, visibility, access, and anti-racism principles built-in

o  Build relationships with the early learning community in and around the region