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President’s Message

This Season, Give Something Extraordinary!
Thank YOU for Keeping the

As a member, you know how important The
Museum Extraordinary! Neighborhood Initiatives: The Children’s
Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is to your family.
From immersive science exhibits like Dinosphere®, Museum Fund supports several programs for
to sports, health, and fitness fun in the new Riley our neighbors, including the Neighborhood
Children’s Health Sports Legends Experience®, to Club, which provides free memberships to
traditional favorites like Jolly Days—the museum is families living in six neighborhoods immediately
• Planning for the Future
Diego—Let’s Explore!, to our special
As 2020 draws to a close, the board,
THE place for extraordinary family learning. surrounding the museum. The museum also
presentation of SUE the Giant T. rex,
volunteers, and staff of the museum
New exhibits, including Mission
offers the Old National Bank Mid-North Promise
want to thank YOU—our members to the addition of girls’ education Jurassic and the addition of Malala’s
So this season, why not share the fun and family Program, which provides guidance, scholarships,
and donors—for your steadfast
®
Story to The Power of Children , are
advocate and Nobel Peace Prize
learning with your community, friends, and family?
and cradle-to-career educational opportunities
support of the world’s biggest and winner Malala Yousafzai’s story to what make the museum a place that
best children’s museum, particularly The Power of Children®, there will be inspires and helps dreams to grow.
for neighborhood children and their parents.
Here are two easy ways to do just that!
during these unprecedented times. more even to explore! In 2017, more than 870 families benefited
• Programs That Serve Everyone
1. Give to The Children’s Museum Fund from Neighborhood Club memberships and 50
The financial impacts of the pandemic, Members are vital to the success of The museum offers several
A gift to The Children’s Museum Fund will help
neighborhood families were engaged with the
including a months-long closure in The Children’s Museum, providing community programs that provide
make the museum accessible to all families,
Mid-North Promise Program!
the spring/summer and an ongoing a bedrock of support for, and support, resources, and free and
regardless of income. Ands it’s easy to do! Just visit
reduction in visitor capacity (for participation in, all the museum offers. reduced admission to underserved
childrensmuseum.org/donate, make a gift in any 2. Give a gift membership. If you want to make the
safety), means the museum is We thank you for being a member, families from the surrounding
amount, and become part of the community of holidays extra-special for family or friends, consider
projected to lose up to $14 million and when the time comes we hope neighborhoods and across Indiana.
donors whose gifts, both large and small, ensure that a gift membership to The Children’s Museum.
this year. Your support as a museum you will renew your membership. And
everyone can enjoy our transformative experiences Recipients will enjoy unlimited access to family
member and/or donor is more during this season of giving, consider • Museum at Home
through programs such as: learning and fun!
important than ever, helping to ensure making a friend or family member’s Museum at Home is an online place
that this world-class museum can holiday extra-special by giving a gift where families can go to discover,
Free Admission Days: The museum offers free
And there’s so much to look forward to in 2019!
continue to offer extraordinary family membership, so they, too, can enjoy be entertained, and inspired. It’s
With new exhibits like Paw Patrol: Adventure Play,
admission four times each year, including on
learning to all—and we are grateful! family learning and fun! part of the museum’s growing suite
Christmas Eve Day, when the museum is open Take Me There®: Greece, and Treasures of Ancient
of virtual offerings for children,
Greece, and a new season of indoor/outdoor fun
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for all families to enjoy!
Your Museum Membership Is Thank You for Supporting families, and schools, which also
The museum is also free on Martin Luther King
in the Riley Children’s Health Sports Legends
Vital—and Appreciated the Rex Response Fund includes Virtual Visits with Santa
Experience beginning March 16, a gift membership
Jr. Day, Presidents Day, and for Fiesta Familia, a
Members of The Children’s Museum In addition to supporting the museum and virtual family, homeschool, and
one-day celebration of Latino cultures held in
will give your friends and loved ones a full year of
are among our greatest advocates, through your membership, many of school programs.
transformative experiences.
September. In 2017, there were nearly 48,000
because members value the breadth you have taken the additional step of
visits on free days!
and depth of our extraordinary family becoming donors to the Rex Response We know that these are difficult times
As 2018 comes to a close, we thank you for your
learning experiences! From immersive Fund. Gifts in any amount will for everyone, and now—more than
The Access Pass Program: This program allows
support of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
exhibits like National Geographic make a difference in addressing the ever—we are so grateful to count
qualifying families to attend the museum at
and look forward to sharing an extraordinary new
Treasures of the Earth, to sports and museum’s most pressing operational you as part of The Children’s Museum
family. YOU are helping to keep
greatly reduced price. Families can visit the
fitness fun in the Riley Children’s needs, including: year with you in 2019!
museum or the Riley Sports Legends Experience
Health Sports Legends Experience®, us extraordinary!
for $2 per family member per visit, or they can
to traditional family favorites • The Museum Experience
Jeffrey H. Patchen
like Jolly Days—members enjoy The heart of The Children’s Museum
attend both for $3 per person. In 2017, more
President and CEO
unlimited access! is its people, who elevate the visitor
than 6,600 households across Indiana were
experience and make the museum
helped through the Access Pass program, for a
And 2021 promises to be truly one-of-a-kind.
total of over 42,600 visits.
extraordinary! From the bilingual Jeffrey H. Patchen
experience (English/Spanish) Dora and President & CEO
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