Childrens Museum

Mission :

The Children’s Museum/Museo de los Niños San Diego is a bi-national interactive arts and education institution dedicated to enriching the lives of children, youth, and their families. With learning through the arts as its focus, the Museum presents programs and installations, designed by artists, that engage children and instill life-long learning skills.

The following principles are integral to our learning through the arts mission:
Children learn from the creative process
Children learn by experiencing
Children learn from innovation & invention
Children learn by solving problems
Children learn respect from exposure to all cultures

San Diego's favorite creative destination for kids and families, the Children's Museum, has served more than 3 million visitors since 1981.

While under construction, the Museum has continued to serve the public through its community arts outreach initiative, known as the Museum Without Walls. This program has brought learning through the arts to events, festivals, fairs, schools and libraries reaching over one million people since 2002.

Seeking to enrich the community by offering creative experiences that make a difference in the lives of visitors, the Museum involves artists, arts educators, a variety of community organizations, and the children themselves as active partners in all aspects of Museum programming.

Offering an assortment of dynamic, arts-based education programs and exhibits that cultivate creativity, originality and individuality, the Museum seeks to uncover hidden talents, raise new questions, and encourage creative thinking. Though frequented by elementary schools and family visitors, the Museum is designed to engage all ages, including toddlers, teens, parents and grandparents.

As a cultural and educational institution with a multi-national audience, the Museum is also dedicated to integrating the unique character of our community with its extraordinary ethnic diversity, unique geographic border, emerging urban culture, innovative technologies and rich artistic resources. Multi-cultural activities that celebrate the arts and culture of diverse world-wide communities through hands-on art projects, storytelling, music, visual and performing arts events that employ styles, techniques, cuisine and cultural histories from around the world are examples of how the Museum strives to strengthen multi-cultural understanding, respect and to build community through the language of art.