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The next big step for creating a DC Children's Museum, Explore! with the National Portrait Gallery brings a dedicated children's exhibit to downtown. Created in collaboration with the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, the hands-on Portrait Exhibit is open seven days a week from 11:30am-7:00pm. Join us at the Gallery for story time Tuesday - Sunday at 11:45 am!
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Join us for our kid's pop-up event in our community maker space series. Each week activities range from creating clay sculptures, organized movement and dance, or artist-led traditional arts and crafts.
Activities are scheduled for most Fridays from 4-7pm at 395 Ingraham Street, NE Washington, DC. Check our events calendar for more details.
Family Festivals!
Explore! Children's Museum, with support from DCCAH and local artists, provides art, music and science activities to our community. This has included dance workshops, science demos and a variety of arts and humanities activities.
We have hosted over a dozen free children's festivals in our Fort Totten neighborhood. More event info can be found at the Art Place website.
RSVP and join us for our 'Minecraft' Back to School Bash on August 23, 2025 and/or our Fall Festival on September 13, 2025.
Over a thousand students and teachers from across the district have participated in this program
The Mission Mobile is the only traveling simulator of its type in the United States
Selected as a model program by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology
Created in collaboration with Smithsonian Institution and George Washington University
Students become biologists, engineers, doctors, and physicists during missions
Students collaborate, communicate, and solve problems while on board
Barnard Elementary School
C.W. Harris Elementary School
DC Parks and Recreation Summer Camps
DCPS Summer Enrichment Program
Dep. of Ed., Office of Education Technology
The Field School
Friendship Public Charter School (Chamberlain Campus)
Garfield Inquiry-Based Preparatory Academy
H.D. Cooke Elementary School
Horizons Day Camps—Maret School
J. H. Johnson Middle School
LAMB Public Charter School, Missouri Ave Campus
LAMB Public Charter School, Perry Street Campus
Levine Music (THEARC campus)
Langley Elementary School
LaSalle Backus Education Campus
Marie Reed Elementary School (via Higher Achievement)
Martha's Table
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School
Murch Elementary School
National Building Museum
Payne Elementary School
Riverdale Park Station
Rose L. Hardy Elementary School
School Without Walls at Francis Stevens
SEED Public Charter School
Simon Elementary School
Sitar Arts Center
Smithsonian, Freer and Sackler Galleries Smithsonian Office of Education and Access
Stoddert Elementary School Summer Camp
Stuart-Hobson Middle School
The Field School
Washington International School
Washington Latin Public Charter School
Washington School for Girls
Whittier STEM Education Campus
Washington Tennis & Education Foundation
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