Donations

Your Gift Makes a Lasting Impact

With your generous donation, we can continue creating a space where children thrive through exploration and imagination. Every contribution directly supports the design and maintenance of new exhibits, educational programs, and community outreach efforts.

By donating, you are investing in the future of our community and the development of the unlimited potential in the local area's young minds.

Whether you're helping us introduce new technology to our exhibits or providing access to underprivileged children, your gift ensures the museum remains a place where curiosity leads to lifelong learning. Together, we can inspire the next generation of thinkers, dreamers, and leaders.

One-Time Gift Capital Campaign sustaining Gifts

How You Can Play Your Part

You can help to set the Children’s Museum on a strong and sustainable path to best live out its mission to inspire learning through play. Charitable investments are needed to fully pay down the $15.15 million investment. Thanks to public and private investments from generous supporters who have been contributing since 2019, $7.6 million has already been raised.

You can Play Your Part too, to join the Children’s Museum in helping children of all ages see touch learn and grow their way through important developmental mile- stones.

All gifts, large and small, will help reach the goal of raising an additional $7.55 mil- lion in the next five years. Capital campaign gifts can be in the form of a one-time contribution or as a five-year pledge. If you contact CMEC, we’ll work with you to help you make a personally meaningful gift that works well for you. Take a look at our recognition opportunities listed below; it’s our way of expressing our thanks to you for making all of this possible.

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If there ever was a time to be bolder, do better, and dream bigger... it is here and now! Why not BE BOLDER in our approach? Peace Tree Child Care and the Children’s Museum has come together to co-locate services under one roof. Children’s Museums across this country have been responding to unique community needs since the first one opened in 1899 in Brooklyn. Communities across this country are challenged with meeting demand for affordable, high quality child care. We feel our unique model will contribute to addressing the child care crisis and possibly inspire other communities to do the same.

When it comes to safety, accessibility, efficiency, and inclusion, why not seek to DO BETTER? We are added 6,134 square feet of exhibit and classroom space, along with other amenities including:

Designated family friendly parking adjacent to our building so parents can avoid crossing busy streets with young children,
An outdoor space that can be utilized year round.

Why not GROW BIGGER so we can include more people in the opportunity to learn through play? The Children’s Museum of Eau Claire serves more than 1,200 children through its Play for All membership program, making us the leader in serving low to moderate income children. All of these things mean that a children’s museum isn’t just nice, but absolutely necessary for a thriving community that values children and strengthening families.

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Explore Our Museum

Big windows are better for natural light all day long.

Nature inside as we use real trees repurposed as internal support.

Light and air flow seamlessly throughout the second floor's open concept design

The outdoor area hosts activities and reflect Wisconsin's traditional seasons.

Our expanded popular water feature plus a true-to-size Fire Engine.

A brand new center for young children with a beautiful Northwoods theme.

Let your young child's mind run wild in our expansive Toddler Park.

Reinforce the importance of staying active in our Shape Up exhibit.

It only gets better when your little one gets to go digging for dino bones.

Learn about what makes us tick in our immersive Body Smarts exhibit.

Your donation will echo into the next generation.

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Play Your Part and help support the Children’s Museum to impact thousands of children. All gifts are welcome and 100% goes to support our effort.

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