Summer Camps at Minnesota Children’s Museum
Our Summer 2025 Camp Guide is available for download!
Details about the registration process and individual camp offerings will be available on our website on January 13!
This summer we’re bringing some of our favorite camps to Minnesota Children’s Museum in downtown Saint Paul. Join us as we explore engineering with topics like robotics, carpentry, space travel, architecture, and more! These camps feature the same educators and hands-on engineering activities as our camps in Bloomington, just brought to Minnesota Children’s Museum’s awesome facility.
Important Camp Details
Registration Information for 2025 Summer Camps
January 20: Innovators Club* registration begins.
January 22: Works Museum Member registration begins.
January 27: Public registration begins.
- Please read our camp cancellation policies prior to registration.
- A limited number of 50% and 25% scholarships are available, based on need. To apply, fill out the scholarship application and registration form.
- Don’t want to register online? Printable Registration Form.
Return to camps:
Main, Pre K, Ages 6-8, Ages 9-12, One-day Camps, LEGO Camps, Robotics Camps, STEM Camps for Girls, Coding Camps
Registration Information:
$225 ($202.50 for members of either museum)
Location:
Minnesota Children’s Museum
10 West Seventh Street
St. Paul, MN 55102
Notes for planning:
Morning and afternoon camps can be combined for a full-day experience. Lunch is supervised for campers attending a full day of camp.
Drop-off begins at 8:30 for a.m. camps and at 12:30 for p.m. camps.
Pick-up is from 12-12:15 for a.m. camps and 4-4:15 for p.m. camps.
Parents will receive an email the week before camp outlining details for drop-off, pick-up, and updated COVID-19 precautions.
Register for camp by clicking on the date of the camp you would like your child to attend.
Pre K Camps at Minnesota Children’s Museum
For children entering kindergarten or High Five programs in Fall 2025.
$230 ($207 for members of either museum)
Work with hammers and drills, as well as a variety of cool tools that squish, cut, and connect things.
M-Th, August 11-14, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
$230 ($207 for members of either museum)
Machines give us superpowers! Lift mighty objects with a crane, use levers to leap tall buildings, move at super speeds with wheels and axles, and create a force field.
M-Th, June 9-12, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
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Camps at Minnesota Children’s Museum (Ages 6-8)
(6-year-old campers must have completed kindergarten)
$230 ($207 for members of either museum)
Try your hand at different engineering jobs. Each day will focus on a different field of engineering. Wire a flashlight (electrical), construct a propeller car (mechanical), design a bridge (architectural), and much more!
M-Th, June 23-26 , 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
$230 ($207 for members of either museum)
Build and test simple rockets to learn the basics of flight and propulsion. Discover what it takes to live in space. Participate in a simulated space mission and construct survival items you would need.
M-Th, July 14-17, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
$230 ($207 for members of either museum)
Design, build, and test different kinds of vehicles to see how they handle a collision. Experiment with crash-proof packaging, then test it out on water balloons.
M-Th, July 14-17, 1-4 p.m.
$230 ($207 for members of either museum)
Practice your woodworking skills to build a hedgehog friend using a hammer and nails. Learn about sawing, sanding, and drilling, then create wooden creatures with wiggly arms and legs.
M-Th, June 16-19, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
M-Th, August 18-21, 1-4 p.m.
$230 ($207 for members of either museum)
Investigate how things move through air as you construct hovercrafts, mini-catapults, flying saucers, rockets, and more.
M-Th, June 16-19, 1-4 p.m.
$230 ($207 for members of either museum)
Explore robotics concepts through games, wiring, and building. Program roving bots to navigate a custom built maze. Design and wire your own wigglebot to bring home.
M-Th, August 4-7, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
$230 ($207 for members of either museum)
Build elevators, wind-up cars, and catapults with specialty LEGO pieces. Explore with gears, pulleys, and other moving parts.
M-Th, June 23-26, 1-4 p.m.
M-Th, August 18-21, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
$230 ($207 for members of either museum)
Learn how to build sturdy structures. Design and build your own mini golf hole and club. Put your designs together to create a mini golf course and play a round of golf with fellow campers
M-Th, August 4-7, 1-4 p.m.
Camps at Minnesota Children’s Museum (One Day Camps)
(6-year-old campers must have completed kindergarten)
$115 per day, $103.50 members
Learn the basics of cardboard construction, then build a themed structure and customize it with amazing features that you design. You get to be the designer, the architect, and the engineer all rolled into one!
Castles: Build a castle, then add features like secret rooms, trap doors, and drawbridges.
Monday, June 30, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
$115 per day, $103.50 members
Calling all young builders! Learn beginning carpentry skills and construct hands-on projects that move. Practice using hammers, saws, screwdrivers, and more to build a wooden catapult and a pinewood derby-style car.
Wednesday, July 2, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
$115 per day, $103.50 members
Engineer roller coasters for balls and marbles. Construct a marble maze game to take home.
Tuesday, July 1, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.