Minnesota Children's Museum: The Scramble & Hands-On Winter Play (St. Paul)

About this adventure

When Minnesota sub-zero temperatures keep energetic kids cooped up inside, the Minnesota Children's Museum in downtown Saint Paul offers three sprawling stories of high-energy indoor play. The star attraction is The Scramble, a soaring four-story vertical climbing structure with rope catwalks, spiral slides, and a 40-foot high lookout tower where kids burn off endless winter energy. Toddlers have their own dedicated space in Sprouts, an interactive sensory landscape with soft climbing mounds, babbling water tables, and gentle sensory walls. In Our World, kids role-play in a kid-sized town featuring a grocery store, post office, and fire engine. The museum offers extensive stroller parking, family quiet rooms, and heated skyway access to adjacent parking ramps.