National Children’s Museum welcomes visitors again in DC

The National Children’s Museum has reopened in a new downtown D.C. location and is welcoming visitors Monday.

The long-shuttered museum has reopened in a new, 33,000-square-foot space inside the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, just a short walk from the National Mall.

It’s what museum President Crystal Bowyer called the merging of a science center with a children’s museum.

Bowyer has made clear in the past that the goal is to approach learning in a new way, with a focus on science, technology, engineering, the arts and math — or STEAM — through interdisciplinary experiences. With everything from slime in the Nickelodeon tech experience to data science, it’s expected to be an innovative kind of learning for kids of all ages.

 

View this post on Instagram

 

[ museum makers • tinkerers studio ] . . The creative hub of the Museum, the tinkerers studio’s hands-on learning and creative projects will allow visitors to design, build, and create in this 21st-century learning lab. Presented by @MicrosoftIPC, the makerspace will challenge visitors to use ordinary objects and tools to create extraordinary works through project- and process-based learning. Stay tuned for opening updates! #museummakers #nationalchildrensmuseum

A post shared by National Children’s Museum (@nationalchildrensmuseum) on Dec 11, 2019 at 8:12am PST

The museum will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily, and tickets are $10.95. Children age 1 and under are free. Large crowds are expected, so visitors are encouraged to purchase tickets during a designated time slot online.