Children's Museum of Indianapolis

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis was founded in 1924 and incorporated in 1925. Indianapolis civic and social leader Mary Stewart Carey, was responsible for the museum's founding. Between 1925 and 1926 the museum was housed in a carriage house behind a mansion in Indianapolis' Old Northside and at the Garfield Park shelter house. In 1927 Carey moved the museum into her house where it stayed until 1946. It then moved to the St. Clair Parry mansion on the corner of 30th and Meridian Streets, where it remains today. In 1976 a 225,000 square-foot building was constructed on the site to house the museum. Since then there have been numerous additions and the building is now more than 400,000 square-feet. The museum houses eleven major galleries that explore history, physical and natural science, world cultures, and the arts.

From the description of Collection, 1863-1969. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 58795293