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Causes: Arts & Culture, Children's Museums
Mission: To inspire children to care about
Programs: Founded as the capital childrens museum in 1974, the museum served kids and families in the washington region for thirty years in northeast washington, d. C. The museum was renamed in 2003 when the u. S. Congress designated it the national childrens museum. In recent years, ncm operated as a museum without walls by serving the region through traveling exhibitions, partnerships with other nonprofits, as well as community and school outreach programs. Today, the national children's museum is poised for its greatest chapter yet, as it prepares to reopen on the national mall in 2019.