The Best Gift Starts Here

The Best Gift Starts Here and Lasts All Year!

This holiday season, share the wonder of The Children’s Museum with everyone on your list. With a museum gift certificate, you can give an entire year of joy with an annual museum membership or a full day satisfying their curiosity with daily general admission. There’s an option for every budget.

Even delivery is convenient! Select digital delivery to send your gift by email on a chosen date with a personal message or select mail delivery to have a physical gift certificate sent to you or your recipient.

Note: Mail orders received after Dec.15, 2025, may not be delivered by Christmas. 

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A gift certificate to the museum can be applied towards a membership, general admission tickets, special events, or The Museum Store.

Wonder Membership

Covers a household and all children or grandchildren under the age of 21.

$225/ per year

Curiosity Membership

+2 guests

Covers a household and all children or grandchildren under the age of 21, plus two guests each visit.

$275/ per year
Includes exclusive gift!

Joy Membership

+extra adult & 2 guests

Covers a household and all children or grandchildren under the age of 21, plus an extra named adult and two guests.

$325/ per year

New in 2026

Opens Jan. 31, 2026
PAW Patrol: Adventure Play
Opens March 7, 2026
Tiana's Joyful Celebration
Opens Feb. 28, 2026
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
Lilly Theater live performance
Opens June 6, 2026
Extreme Sports: Beyond Human Limits
Reopens Fall 2026
All Aboard!

Benefits of Membership

All members get unlimited visits to five floors of indoor fun and our 7.5 acre outdoor sports wonderland. No matter the level you gift, your loved ones will get these exclusive benefits:
  • Member Previews—a sneak peek of new exhibits before the public
  • Member Morning Weekends—an hour of early access to the museum before it opens (first full weekend of each month)
  • Insider news including Extra! magazine and member emails
  • FREE Carousel rides
  • 20% discount on family programs
  • 10% discount on general guest admission tickets and Haunted House tickets
  • 10% discount at The Museum Store
  • Member discounts in weekly eNews for local sports and entertainment
Their membership will start upon first visit or renewal.

Purchase online, by visiting the Box Office, or by calling 317-334-4000.
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Family looking at Tyrannosaurus rex fossil inside Dinosphere.
Grown-up and child wearing astronaut costumes.
Smiling child riding Carousel horse.
Child driving pedal car race car.
Actors dressed like pigs and wolf in Lilly Theater show.
Staff showing Terra Cotta Warriors equipment to visitors.
Family playing in water table.
Grown-up and child touching a fossil in the Dinosphere paleo lab.
Family walking under Ruby Bridges sign in the Power of Children exhibit.
Children sitting down with a projection of Malala Yousufzai on the wall behind them.
Two children throwing footballs towards an Indianapolis Colts cutout.
Child and grown-up looking at a Rube Goldberg contraption.
today at the museum