Children's Museum in Easton

The Children's Museum was started in 1986 by four Easton women, all mothers of young children in search of hands-on educational experiences for their children. The location at that time was a historic firehouse built in 1904. By 1986, it had not been a functioning fire station in decades, and the town of Easton had decided to sell it. The mothers proposed the museum to the town, and the vote went to selectmen.^[1] The vote passed, with the museum promising to donate $100,000 of its admission profits back to the town.^[2] The mothers had no corporate sponsors, so it took five years of fundraising activities through the community until the museum received enough support to open in 1991.

• The official website