Established 1995 Type Science Museum Phone +1 952-888-4262 | Location Bloomington, Minnesota Website The Works | |
Address 9740 Grand Ave S, Bloomington, MN 55420, USA Hours Open today · 9AM–5PMWednesday9AM–5PMThursday9AM–5PMFriday9AM–5PMSaturday10AM–5PMSunday12–5PMMonday9AM–5PMTuesday9AM–5PMSuggest an edit Similar The Works: Ohio Center for, The Bakken, Minnesota Children's Museum, Science Museum of Minnesota, Bell Museum of Natural H Profiles | ||
The Works is an interactive children's museum in Bloomington, Minnesota that focuses on technology and engineering.
The museum was conceived by Rebecca Schatz, a software engineer who was inspired by a visit to the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and by the hands-on technical education for children that she observed during a year as a Luce Scholar in Japan in 1984. The Works first opened as a gallery exhibition within the Bell Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota, then moved to a series of temporary locations in shopping centers and to the community center in Edina before finding a larger, permanent home with 40,000 square feet of space in Bloomington in 2011. In 2011 the museum reported annual attendance of 50,000 visitors. Since 2003 The Works has sponsored an annual "Tech Fest".