The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Accredited nonprofit and the world's largest children's museum, offering hands-on exhibits, artifacts, and immersive experiences across science, arts, sports, and culture in Indianapolis.
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is the world's largest children's museum and an accredited nonprofit, founded in 1925 and marking its centennial in 2025. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, the museum occupies a 472,900-square-foot facility on 29 urban acres and draws more than 1.3 million visitors a year from families worldwide. It creates hands-on family learning experiences through interactive exhibits, artifacts, and immersive environments spanning science, nature, the arts, sports, and culture.
Five floors of interactive exhibit halls house Arts & Humanities and Natural Sciences collections totaling more than 130,000 artifacts. Exhibits include simulated dinosaur habitats, historic steam locomotives, glass sculpture displays, and cultural installations. Technical work at the museum spans interactive exhibit design, immersive experience design, collections management and preservation, and hands-on learning design.
As a mission-driven nonprofit, the organisation focuses on family learning experiences intended to encourage joy, wonder, and curiosity, using a discovery-based, hands-on approach to exhibit development. It describes a commitment to innovation and continued expansion, having grown from a carriage house to a premier cultural destination serving families and future generations.