Welcome to the Children’s Museum Group

The Children’s Museum offers hands-on fun with science and nature for younger children and families, school, and community groups.

Roaring Brook Nature Center is a wildlife sanctuary and outdoor classroom offering a year-round schedule of educational programs for all ages.

The Children’s Museum Preschool is a play-based program that encourages and develops learning through each child’s natural activities.

Where Learning and Fun Connect

The Children’s Museum Group is a Connecticut-based non-profit educational organization which includes The Children’s Museum and The Children’s Museum Preschool, both located in West Hartford, CT, as well as Roaring Brook Nature Center, located in Canton, CT. We strive to inspire life-long learning among children and their caregivers by providing experiential learning programs covering STEAM, health, nature and the environment.

Sophisticated in-school and on-site educational programs aligned with Connecticut’s curricular standards, the museum and nature center embody themselves with hands-on, minds-open, child-centered interactive activities.

These together make The Children’s Museum Group a stimulating and unique resource to the area, with programs that assist the development of curious, confident and innovative children creating the basis for successful adults.

Various children learning and participating in science, nature and discovery classes

Encouraging Creative Thinkers & Lifelong Learners

Our Mission

The Children’s Museum Group’s core mission is to inspire life-long learning among children and their caregivers by providing experiential learning programs covering STEAM, health, nature and the environment. Entertaining, stimulating and unique to the area, our educational programs will assist in the development of curious, confident and innovative children creating the basis for successful adults.

Our Value

The Children’s Museum Group will deliver value to our donors, our supporters, and the community. Donors will be proud to affiliate with and support our facilities and programs, which enrich their lives, legacies and stature. Companies and organizations can make use of us for workforce involvement campaigns and to recruit into the region. The community will recognize us as a valued enhancement to lifestyle and image.

Our Vision

The Children’s Museum Group’s vision is to be a premier provider of experiential learning content, programs and opportunities for young children. A forward-looking and adaptable place where children and the adults in their lives feel safe to explore, imagine, discover, create and fail. A destination of distinction that adds value to the community, as well as an organization recognized as being at the forefront of child development.

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