About The Works Museum
The Works Museum is all about hands-on engineering for kids ages 5-12 and their families. When you visit The Works Museum, you’ll dig into the basics of engineering, science, and technology with our interactive experiences and design challenges. Kids touch, try, and build as they explore how things work – all in the Museum’s open floor plan that makes it easy to supervise your creative explorers.
We need the imagination and skill of engineers to solve the problems and address the challenges of our modern world. Engineering fuels collaboration, persistence, and problem solving; critical skills for every child from every walk of life. The Works Museum welcomes you to explore engineering and stretch your imagination.
Mission + Vision
Visit with your family or students and be sure to check out our birthday parties, field trips, workshops and family programs we can bring to your school or organization, school break and summer camps, and incredible events and special activity days.
Our Mission: To inspire the next generation of innovators, engineers, and creative problem solvers.
Our Vision: To serve as the premier engineering education resource for all elementary age children, developing our future workforce of critical and creative thinkers and problem solvers, increasing STEM equity across Minnesota’s diverse communities.
Requesting museum passes and auction donations:
Nonprofits seeking donations of museum passes may submit a request via email at donationrequests@theworks.org. We review requests on the first week of every month. If your organization is selected for a donation, we will notify you by email. We wish everyone luck with their fundraising endeavors, but due to the number of requests we receive, we will choose causes that are closest to our educational mission when making our selections.