Sesame Street Gets Permanent Home in National Children’s Museum

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The National Children’s Museum has aligned with Sesame Workshop to integrate Sesame Street and its characters throughout several interactive exhibits, educational video segments and books in the museum’s Early Learners gallery.

In helping to extend Sesame Workshop’s educational mission, the Sesame Street brand will also be incorporated in select museum events and programming. Sesame Workshop will collaborate with the Washington D.C.-based museum on content development, exhibits and program creation for the Our World gallery, which will focus on diverse cultures and places around the world.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan commented of the collaboration: “Early childhood education is an important priority of the Administration, and we know how important supportive learning opportunities are for a child’s development and later success in school. The National Children’s Museum is an important leader in early childhood and elementary school-age learning programs, and I know that through this partnership with Sesame Street, they will continue to be at the forefront both regionally and nationally. As Americans, we believe our children can achieve anything, and now more than ever before, the National Children’s Museum will be, indeed, a special place to realize that dream."

“The National Children’s Museum and Sesame Workshop share not only a similar mission, but a similar story—both organizations have been making a difference in this field for forty years and are committed to engaging with kids and their families in new ways that are educational, inspiring, and lead to a better future,” added National Children’s Museum’s president and CEO, Kathy Dwyer Southern. “Our mission is to inspire children to care about and improve the world. We believe great things will stem from this partnership and look forward to working together on behalf of kids, their families, and their communities across the nation.”

“We at Sesame Street have been impressed by the National Children’s Museum’s dedication to evolving the concept of a traditional museum by not just building a world-class museum, but also creating outreach programs that help kids build a better future,” commented Sesame Workshop’s president and CEO, Gary E. Knell. “We look forward to collaborating on what we believe is going to be a very compelling and exciting family destination and are happy for NCM to be Sesame Street’s new home in the nation’s capital.”