Bronx Children's Museum

The Bronx is the ONLY New York City borough that does not have a children’s museum facility. Founded in 2005 to level the playing field for youth from the Bronx by giving them their own children’s museum facility, the Bronx Children’s Museum has always had been connected to the pulse of community, its people, environment, and history. It is a new kind of 21st century children's museum designed, shaped, and staffed primarily by its constituency.

Currently operating in schools, shelters, parks, and community agencies, the Museum is an arts and cultural organization devoted to children from infancy to 9 years old. It engages more than 16,000 children annually with 11 in-demand STEAM-based programs including Waters On the Go!, a mobile, interactive exhibit housed in our big purple bus. Since educational programming began in 2011, the Museum staff has inspired more than 94,200 visitors at 449 different community events and 90 educational institutions

In 2020, the Museum will open its building in the South Bronx in a 13,000 square foot space in a LEEDS building given to the Museum by the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation. Thereafter, the Museum will always operate both “with and without walls,” offering arts enrichment, environmental education, and interactive programming designed to connect children with their families, their communities, the Bronx and the world beyond.