Camps at Minnesota Children’s Museum

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.

Register for camp by clicking on the date of the camp you would like your child to attend.

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Important Camp Details:
Camp and Cancellation Policies
Scholarship Application Form
Printable Registration Form

Download the Summer 2026 Camp guide

Registration Information for 2026 Summer Camps

Summer camp registration begins In January

  • January 19: Innovators Club* registration begins. 

  • January 21: The Works Museum Member registration begins. 

  • January 26: Public registration begins. 

$235 ($211.50 for members of either museum)

Location:

Minnesota Children’s Museum
10 West Seventh Street
St. Paul, MN 55102

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Pre K Camps at Minnesota Children’s Museum

For children entering kindergarten or High Five programs in Fall 2025.

  • $235 ($211.50 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 10-13, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | @MCM  | Camp Full - Sign up for waitlist

  • $235 ($211.50 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 8-11, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | @MCM

Camps at Minnesota Children’s Museum (Ages 6-8) 

(6-year-old campers must have completed kindergarten)

  • $235 ($211.50 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 (structural), and much more!

    M-Th, August 3-6 , 1-4 p.m. | @MCM

  • $235 ($211.50 for members of either museum)

    Treasure lies at the end of your map, but first you need to engineer ways to get past roaring rapids, waterfalls, tall cliffs, and hidden traps. Team up with fellow adventurers to design solutions to any problems you encounter on your quest.  

    M-Th, July 13-16, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | @MCM | Camp Full - Sign up for waitlist

  • $235 ($211.50 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, August 17-20, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | @MCM | Camp Full - Sign up for waitlist

  • $235 ($211.50 for members of either museum)

    Design, build, and test different kinds of vehicles and structures to see how they handle a collision. Experiment with crash-proof packaging, then test it out on water balloons.

    M-Th, August 17-20, 1-4 p.m. | @MCM | Camp Full - Sign up for waitlist

  • $235 ($211.50 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, July 13-16, 1-4 p.m. | @MCM

  • $235 ($211.50 for members of either museum)

    Discover how your imaginative solutions can help animals thrive. Create adaptive equipment for animals with injuries or disabilities, invent a way to rescue a pet from a tree, and more.
    *No live animals are attending this camp.

    M-Th, July 20-23, 9 a.m.-12 p.m | @MCM

  • $235 ($211.50 for members of either museum)

    Investigate how things move through air as you construct hovercrafts, mini-catapults, flying saucers, and rockets.

    M-Th, June 22-25, 1-4 p.m. | @MCM

  • $235 ($211.50 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 bot to bring home. 

    M-Th, August 24-27, 1-4 p.m. | @MCM | Camp Full - Sign up for waitlist

  • $235 ($211.50 for members of either museum)

    Build elevators, wind-up cars, and catapults with specialty LEGO pieces. Explore with gears, pulleys, and other moving parts. Use LEGO pieces to make a one-of-a-kind block print.

    M-Th, July 20-23, 1-4 p.m. | @MCM
    M-Th, August 24-27, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | @MCM | Camp full - sign up for the waitlist

  • $235 ($211.50 for members of either museum)

    Learn how to build sturdy structures. Design and build your own mini golf hole and club. Put your design together with the designs of other campers to create a mini golf course and play a round.

    M-Th, August 3-6, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | @MCM‍ ‍

  • $235 ($211.50 for members of either museum)

    Use your imagination to design elements of your own Sci Fi planet like fantastical landscapes, creatures and their homes, and more. Make your world even more unique by customizing your designs with motors and LED lights.  

    M-Th, June 22-25, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | @MCM | Camp Full - Sign up for waitlist

Camps at Minnesota Children’s Museum (One Day Camps) 

(6-year-old campers must have completed kindergarten)

  • $120 per day, $108 (for members of either museum)

    Learn the basics of cardboard construction, then build a fun house and customize it with features like wobbly floors, mirrored rooms, and secret passages.

    Monday, June 29, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. | @MCM | Camp Full - Sign up for waitlist

  • $120 per day, $108 (for members of either museum)

    Engineer creative rescue tools like ziplines, catapults, and air-powered systems to save LEGO minifigs from perilous situations. Team up and become a hero in this thrilling one-day camp!  

    Tuesday, June 30, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. | @MCM | Camp Full - Sign up for waitlist

  • $120 per day, $108 (for members of either museum)

    Make larger-than-life models and teeny-tiny versions of food, toys, and more. Take your creations
    home for more imaginative exploration. 

    Wednesday, July 1 , 9 a.m.-4 p.m. | @MCM

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

Tips for camp registration:

  • 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.

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