Meet one of our first board members, and hear her best and funniest stories from the early days at the museum

Jules discusses favorite museum stories from some of our board members

Jules and Ashlen discuss the most popular museum exhibits, and suggest ways that museum visitors can bring some museum fun home with them.

Ashlen and Jules discuss meetings, parties, and tours at the museum

Ashlen and Jules tell their crazy stories from the museum, and discuss our habit of taking on big, ambitious projects.

We have our first guest! Meet one of our board members, Christine Weiland, and hear about how she helped the museum get started offering monthly Sensory Sensitive Playdates.

Ashlen and Jules discuss our decision to offer the first ever summer day camps at Des Moines Children's Museum.

Ashlen and Jules attended the Interactivity conference in New Orleans the last week of April. There will be secrets!

Should children's museums have seating for parents? Wi-fi? And how many signs is too many?

Early on people would ask us if we had done a feasibility study. We didn't even know what they meant by that. Sometimes people asking didn't even know what they meant either. So we learned, and we did one. Listen to us reflect on our feasibility study.