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We’re building an interactive and accessible community space where children and families can discover, imagine and grow together through play and exploration. Below, find our goal for exhibit areas.
Only you can help bring it to life.
Water
Water play is a classic feature of any children’s museum experience! Help us bring this area to life for our community with a 4x8 foot water table with so many educational features.
This space will cost $70,000 to complete.
Imaginative Play Downtown
Enter the world of make-believe: our imaginative play zone will feature a veterinarian clinic, a diner, roadways and vehicles, and a farm stand with gardening.
This space will cost $10,000 to complete.
Crawler Space
Consider it “The Common”: our baby zone is a gated space tucked within the imaginative downtown zone designed just for our littlest visitors.
This space will cost $10,000 to complete.
Amazing Bodies
Dive into the Amazing Bodies exhibit and discover how our incredible bodies work! See how your heart pumps and understand the magic of the human body.
This area will take $90,000 to complete.
Sensory Tree
A quiet sensory space designed, on the outside, to look like a tree. This exhibit area is a central feature to our space.
This area will take $40,000 to complete.
Outer Space
Get ready for blast off! Visitors are headed for out of this world exploration.
This area will take $25,000 to complete.
Co-sponsored by: Walmart
Financial Literacy
This exhibit aims to make financial education accessible, enjoyable, and meaningful for children.
This space is sponsored by Rockland Trust.
Outdoor
A small but mighty outside play zone, we’re planning for gardening, music, picnic tables and an amazing bubble centerpiece.
This space will take $25,000 to complete.
Wind
It's a breezy adventure in understanding how wind shapes our world and powers our future!
This area will cost $37,000 to complete.
Transportation
This space features our two seven-foot-long car ramps built by students at Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School, as well as a large custom train table crafted by a local mom and woodworker.
This area will cost $15,000 to complete.
The Climber & Flex Zone
The Climber is an incredible contained climbing structure planned to rise out of the “loading dock” section of our space. It will exit, on one end, into that sunken section, which will serve as our Flex Space – featuring the sock skating rink, green blocks, dinosaurs and more at various points in the year.
This area will cost $50,000 to complete.
Local Artwork
We plan to feature local artists work both inside and outside of our space.
If you are a local artist interested in learning more about our vision or if you are interested in sponsoring featured murals, please reach out.
MakerSpace
A dedicated makerspace serves to foster creativity in every child.
It will cost $12,000 to fully equip this space with materials, furniture and decor.
Classroom/Lab
Our space will feature a flexible classroom/lab space that can also be utilized for birthday parties. This space allow us to offer a range of programming for elementary and middle school children on site.
This space will take $50,000 to complete.
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Your legacy is found in the community you build around you.
Your tax-deductible donation to Children’s Museum of Franklin can also be made via check mailed to:
Children’s Museum of Franklin, c/o Erin Gallagher
2 Cohasset Way, Franklin, MA 02038