The Inspire Experience Manager leads and supervises the staff and volunteer team delivering inspireU’s mission and core values
through their consistent and playful approach to learning experiences, operations, and customer service. This role will be a member of the leadership team of the Children’s Discovery Center, directly responsible for all visitor-facing roles within the museum. The Experience Manager should have a passion for families and children, visible enthusiasm for learning and play, customer service experience, and the ability to work with diverse types of people.
The Director of Visitor Services upholds the museum’s mission, vision and values in all areas of their work and ensures that Madison Children’s Museum maintains exemplary visitor service standards for all who choose to visit. The Director of Visitor Services directs all members of the Visitor Services team, Events team & Lunchbox Cafe team, and is responsible for daily staffing of admissions, exhibit spaces, group visits, events, cafe, and gift shop. The director works cross-departmentally to ensure long-term and short-term projects and initiatives are supported through collaboration and strategic planning. The Director of Visitor Services fosters a culture of belonging, equity, inclusion, for staff and visitors, ensures accountability across all staff roles, and supports successful cultivation of team members.
Cheshire Children’s Museum (CCM) is seeking a passionate and community-focused Executive Director who will enhance CCM’s capacity to inspire curiosity, creativity, and lifelong learning in children through play. As CCM enters its second decade in Keene, it is growing steadily with an increased role as an anchor in the community. CCM is seeking an Executive Director to strengthen the operational foundations and grow our community impact. This includes providing high-quality exhibits and programs, increasing our financial stability, increasing museum visitation, and transitioning to more efficient and effective internal operations.
The Children’s Museum has an opening for a Director of Finance. The Director of Finance is responsible for all financial planning functions including budgeting, reporting, accounting, forecasting, business planning, financial policies, information technology, risk management, and venue sales. The Director of Finance is a member of the Museum Leadership Team and Ex Officio member of the Finance Committee. This position reports to the CEO.
Reporting to the Senior Director of Philanthropy (Senior Director), the Annual Giving Manager designs, implements, and evaluates a new annual giving program to grow support for the Museum. Please Touch Museum’s (PTM) annual giving program is poised to grow considerably to support operating and program needs, provide predictable revenue forecasts, and organizational growth opportunities in anticipation of the Museum’s 50th anniversary in 2026.
The Volunteer Coordinator will be responsible for recruiting, training, and scheduling volunteers to ensure effective management of Guest Experience. This position requires strong organizational and interpersonal communication skills, and a passion for community engagement.
As the Development and Grants Manager, you will work closely with the Executive Directors, Board of Directors, and other designated staff to play a pivotal role in securing funding and support for The Rabbit hOle. This position combines strategic planning, donor relationship management, and grant writing to advance the organization’s mission and programs. This position is full-time, eligible for benefits.
The Executive Director will be expected to lead a dynamic team, oversee strategic planning, and champion the mission of inspiring curiosity, exploration, and lifelong learning in young minds. This individual will need to fully understand museum operations from the bottom up, periodically working on the museum floor and assisting with specialized programming. They will be responsible for managing the resolution of operational issues at all levels, including filling staffing gaps as needed. The Executive Director is expected to promote the museum through targeted community outreach that best serves the museum’s mission. The Executive Director is responsible for all aspects of fundraising, including directing the Board of Directors in campaign efforts, researching and submitting grants, and creating beneficial partnerships with organizations and individuals that will symbiotically assist in the growth of the Galveston Children’s Museum. The Executive Director is expected to grow the museum year over year through these fundraising efforts and will be accountable for the financial growth and stability of the museum.
As Exhibits + Facilities Technician, reporting to the Senior Manager of Exhibits + Facilities, you will
ensure the effective operation and maintenance of the Museum’s exhibits and facilities. Your work
will support the mission of the National Children’s Museum to inspire children to care about and
change the world–playing a critical role in sparking curiosity and igniting innovation for millions of
children in this next generation.
National Children’s Museum is a world-class institution that aims to spark children’s
imaginations and encourage them to dream. Steps off the National Mall and Pennsylvania
Avenue, National Children’s Museum celebrates the joy of childhood through science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) exhibits and programs. As Administrative Systems Specialist, you will help realize this vision for hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
National Children’s Museum’s Director of Education + Guest Experience, reporting to the
President + CEO, is a critical member of the leadership team. This individual is responsible
for leading a cross-functional team responsible for delivering stellar guest engagements
and interactions. This team lead oversees team members dedicated to education,
experience, operations (guest services) management and safety.
This is a bilingual role (English & Spanish) that builds and fosters trusting and mutually beneficial relationships between the museum and community organizations serving families with young children, particularly those in low-income communities. This position acts as a liaison, representing the museum’s interests while also acting as an internal advocate and voice for community needs, interests, and priorities. In addition to being a relationship builder and advocate, this role actively works with community organizations and individuals to design and test programs and initiatives that tackle persistent barriers to participation in the museum for historically marginalized communities.
| The Director of Exhibits is a member of the Montshire Museum of Science’s senior leadership team and is responsible for aligning the Montshire’s indoor and outdoor exhibit experiences to the Museum’s new organizational strategy. This position provides supervisory leadership for the Montshire’s Exhibits team; oversees new exhibition planning, development and implementation; ensures proper maintenance and/or repair of existing exhibits; and works collaboratively with staff from other museum departments and project partners to align and integrate exhibit offerings into the larger work of the Montshire. |
New Hampshire Boat Museum, located in two locations in the beautiful Lakes Region, seeks a talented Executive Director to lead the organization during a period of dynamic growth that includes completion of a capital campaign and additional phases of a new museum facility. The Executive Director will embody the energy of the museum’s passionate stakeholders, communicate excitement about the mission, and skillfully navigate the logistics of literally moving the museum to a new place of relevance and engagement.
The Exploratorium produces and maintains exhibits for its San Francisco campus and for partner institutions around the world. The Director, Exhibit Production is responsible for the overarching operations, administration, and supervision of exhibit and exhibition production – including production specialist staff and Exploratorium facilities / amenities related to exhibit development, production, and maintenance. This position works with project leadership across the institution to integrate exhibit production with development, design, project management, and finance. This position reports to the Senior Director of Exhibits.
We are seeking a dynamic and visionary Executive Director to lead our children’s museum dedicated to promoting exploration, education, and innovation in Davie County and surrounding communities. We accomplish this by creating opportunities for people of all ages to play, learn, and grow with a focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) education. As the Executive Director, you will be responsible for providing strategic leadership, operational oversight, and fundraising efforts to ensure the museum’s continued success in fulfilling its mission of inspiring the next generation of innovators and problem solvers.
Bring Winter cheer to your venue no matter the time of year!
Based on the beloved Peanuts “Take Care” initiative, Miami Children’s Museum’s new traveling licensed exhibit teaches children how to take care of themselves, each other, and the Earth.
The immersive, open-ended exhibits provide children with opportunities to play, explore, discover and experiment.
There’s so much to learn about nature — in your own backyard and beyond! In this immersive exhibit, walk through Fred the house cat’s scratching post and transform into Nature Cat, Outdoor Explorer Extraordinaire! Dress up as one of Nature Cat’s pals as you explore a marsh, a cave, a forest, and more — slip down Ronald’s slide, help Daisy build a flower garden, and have fun hunting for Hal’s flying disc.
Every object in our world has a story of how it is made. How People Make Things tells that story by bringing the manufacturing experience to life and showing you the ways in which familiar childhood objects are made. Hands-on activities in cutting, molding, deforming and assembly show you the people, ideas and technology used to transform raw materials into finished products.
Measurement is an essential part of our lives, but not always easy to understand. Gauge height, distance, volume and more in Measurement Rules, an interactive exhibit that introduces visitors to various units of measurement. Master the basics and then begin to compare, classify and categorize different ways to measure using traditional—and not-so-traditional—tools. Hands-on experiences allow visitors to understand measurement in relation to the world around them, collaborate with others and become confident in the language of measurement.
This exhibit has bilingual (English/Spanish) signage.
In Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: A Grr-ific Exhibit, you will step into Daniel Tiger’s world and join him and his friends as you explore the Neighborhood. Through immersive experiences, visitors will work together to solve problems, use their imaginations to transform their surroundings, and play along with Daniel’s singable strategies to learn life’s little lessons.
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: A Grr-ific Exhibit was created by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh in partnership with Fred Rogers Productions. DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD © 2022 The Fred Rogers Company. All rights reserved.
Visitors are invited into the imagination, whimsy, and humor of Mo Willems. Many familiar characters will be featured, including best friend duo Elephant and Piggie, faithful companion Knuffle Bunny, and The Pigeon, the wily city bird best known for his antics in Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Activities will give children the opportunity to make art that is inspired by Mo Willems and to learn about the rich social and emotional lives of the author’s characters. The exhibit will also feature prints of illustrations, including works in progress, by Mo Willems.
This exhibit has bilingual (English/Spanish) signage.
Inspired by Rube’s original illustrations and inventive storytelling, this exhibit contains a collection of new 3D, life-size machines and hands-on, interactive components that connect Rube’s iconic cartoon contraptions to the way things work in the physical world. These experiences provide insight into the legacy of Rube and how classic engineering principles can be re-imagined as entry points for deeper exploration of STEAM concepts for 21st century learning.
This exhibit has bilingual (English/Spanish) signage.
Emotions at Play with Pixar’s Inside Out, the first interactive exhibit based on the award-winning film, helps visitors – young and old – understand the important role emotions, memory and imagination play in our everyday lives. Focusing on the five core emotions featured in Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out – Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust and Fear – hands-on and digital experiences in the exhibit offer opportunities to explore some of the ways we express our emotions – and recognize emotions in others, too.
This exhibit has bilingual (English/Spanish) signage.
Opposites Abstract: A Mo Willems Exhibit is based on Mo Willems’ recent all-ages book, Opposites Abstract, published by Hyperion Books for Children. Taking inspiration from the eye-popping, emotive and highly accessible words and abstract images from the book, this interactive exhibition invites its audience to view and play by exploring the complicated yet simple concept of opposites through hands-on experiences, art making activities, and artist-led performances. Geared to both children and former children of all ages, the exhibition will inspire every visitor to create and respond to art in their own unique ways.
This exhibit includes all the original artwork framed.
This exhibit has bilingual (English/Spanish) signage.
AIM HIGH: Soaring with the Tuskegee Airmen invites its audience to explore the multiple aspects of aviation, from the rich history of the Tuskegee Airmen to 21st century STEM concepts. Inspired by the tools and tasks related to flying and aeronautics, the interactive experiences mix real artifacts with hands-on play. Visitors of all ages will be able to imagine themselves in the role of the aviators, inspired by the past and dream of the future.
The exhibition features Black Wings, American Dreams of Flight organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The exhibition was made possible by the generous support of MetLife Foundation. It chronicles the story of African Americans, who, despite facing racial barriers, attained great achievements in the world of aviation.
Inspired by the success of its Roar & Explore with Dinosaurs Exhibit, Miami Children’s Museum proudly presents an all-new rental experience. This rental package includes a total of seven state-of-the-art animatronic dinosaurs: two T-Rexes, a Diplodocus, an Ankylosaurus, a Stegosaurus, a Triceratops, and a Velociraptor with a nest and hatchlings. All seven dinosaurs are sensor-activated and can perform seamless movements along with realistic roaring sounds. Several interactive components and added experience opportunities will also be provided to help you create your own dinosaur experience, such as a fossil dig pit, dino skeleton builder, and baby stegosaurus puppet that is perfect for photos. Children are sure to be captivated while learning all about these fascinating creatures.
This interactive, hands-on experience involves the creation of your own Roller Coaster – from design to testing and then re-testing. What makes the best design? Where does the ball get its energy from? How many different coasters can you build?
Visitors step onto the Island of Sodor where they can climb aboard a large model of Thomas the tank engine, race trains along a giant track, work together to sort and load cargo and maintain engines.
Visitors dive into the world of Wild Kratts® to explore the secret lives of extraordinary creatures in this brand new exhibit. They immerse themselves in ocean habitats and discover incredible creature powers.
Visitors step into the world of Wild Kratts® to explore the secret lives of extraordinary animals in this brand new exhibit. They immerse themselves in animal habitats from around the globe, and discover incredible creature powers.
Visitors get busy inside the barn, where they can hop on balance boards, traverse the wall, and balance on tires; all while wearing their favorite “champion sheep” inspired costumes.
Visitors activate the Get-U-Up device, design their own contraptions, complete a cracking contraption, and blast off in a rocket!
