The London Children’s Museum curates powerful play experiences through immersive environments, authentic materials, and meaningful relationships. As a champion for children, we advocate for their unique perspectives, contributions, and ways of learning.
Exhibits and engaging learning experiences allow children to explore history and heritage, investigate science and social relationships, and celebrate art and culture. The London Children’s Museum helps children ignite their curiosity and play their way to a life of innovation and creative discovery.
What is a Children's Museum?
A children’s museum is a nonprofit educational and cultural space designed especially for children and families. Through hands-on exhibits and interactive programs, children’s museums spark curiosity, inspire imagination, and support learning through play.
Children’s museums are built on a few key beliefs:
- Children are valued community members who deserve meaningful learning experiences
- Play is essential to children's social, emotional, and cognitive development
- Learning is shaped by family, culture, environment, and community
- Equity, inclusion, and accessibility matter for every child and family
There are more than 300 children’s museums worldwide, each shaped by its community. All are joyful, welcoming places designed to be experienced, not just visited.
Recognizing Indigenous Land, Knowledge, and Pedagogy
The London Children’s Museum is a settler organization located on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lunaapeewak, and Attawandaron Peoples. We recognize the unbroken presence of the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, Oneida Nation of the Thames, Munsee-Delaware Nation, and an urban Indigenous population who continue to steward and care for this land.
As a museum dedicated to hands-on, immersive learning, we acknowledge that Indigenous Peoples are the original teachers of these approaches. Indigenous pedagogy, rooted in land-based, experiential ways of knowing, honours children as whole beings with mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical dimensions. These teachings remind us that learning is not an individual pursuit, but a lifelong, collective process, nurtured in communion with all living things.
