Outreach
Family Access program
All children deserve the opportunity to experience the museum regardless of their ability to pay. The Family Access program offers a range of options for families including $.25 admissions, $5 annual memberships, outreach programming, group visits and Free Family Sundays made
Education Outreach - Mobile Exhibits and Programs
Have you spotted Madison Children’s Museum’s colorful van in your neighborhood? It’s out and about Madison and Southcentral Wisconsin bringing the magic of learning through play to preschools, schools and community events.
MCM’s outreach programs bring mobile exhibits and education programs to children and families as a way to connect more families into the museum as well as a way to work toward reducing some of the barriers families face in participating in the museum.
Outreach Programs
Dig into Dinosaurs uses movement games, dramatic play, along with a recreated fossil bed to teach children about the lifestyles, behaviors and adaptations of dinosaurs. It also introduces them to paleontology and science theories through group puzzle solving and storytelling. Recommended for grades K-2
World of Homes explores the topics of culture, geography and lifestyle and how that impacts housing designs around the world while building a kid-size yurt. Recommended for grades preK-5.
Let’s Grow inspires an appreciation for how plants, especially food plants, grow through seed guessing, storytelling and dramatic play with garden plots and a farmer’s market cart. Recommended for preschool-K.
For information regarding bringing a mobile museum experience to your school or community, contact Sandra Bonnici-Hoecherl, Outreach Coordinator at 608.256.6445, ext. 12 or shoecherl@madisonchildrensmuseum.org.possible by generous underwriting support. Click here to download a pdf of the Outreach Booklet, “School & Community Connections”.
Upcoming Outreach Programs:
March 5 Stoughton Head Start
March 9 Mt. Horeb Library (PUBLIC EVENT)
March 12 Verona Head Start
March 13 Bayview Head Start
March 16 Prairie Elementary School, Waunakee
March 17 Netherwood Knoll Elementary School, Oregon
March 18 Netherwood Knoll Elementary School, Oregon
March 19 Verona Head Start
March 25 Eagle Elementary School, Eagle
March 26 Stoughton Head Start
March 27 Bayview Head Start
April 1 Bayview Head Start
April 2 Verona Head Start
April 3 Lowell Elementary School
April 16 Sun Prairie Head Start
April 23 Sun Prairie Head Start
April 25 Dia de los Ninos (PUBLIC EVENT)
April 25 Isthmus Green Day (PUBLIC EVENT)
April 30 Sun Prairie Head Start
2008 Audience Served
Total audience served: 116,113
On-site Museum attendance: 90,951
Off-site outreach programming: 25,162
Family Access programming: 35,339
Number of Museum Members: 1,881 (356 Family Access)
Free Family Sunday attendance (on-site): 6,905
25-cent Admission attendance (on-site): 3,272
