Children's Museum of South Dakota

Mission: The Children’s Museum of South Dakota sparks imagination and learning for all children and their grown-ups through play, creativity, and discovery.

Vision: CMSD seeks to transform the world by inspiring generations to love learning and to believe that life is full of possibilities.

The Children's Museum of South Dakota provides interactive educational experiences that promote learning through play for children and their grownups, families, and caregivers. Direct charitable activities include operating hands-on exhibits and educational activities and providing camps, field trips, outreach activities, community partnerships, access to play initiatives, and special events. These services impact more than 100,000 participants annually and foster healthy child development, socio-emotional well-being, problem solving, creativity, exploration, relationship building, community connection, and lifelong learning.