Great Falls Children’s Museum Finds A New Home As Spark

• In November 2024 The Great Falls Children's Museum moved out of their original location
• The Children's Museum has a new location and a new name

Facts On The First Location For The Children's Museum of Montana, Great Falls

• Never intended to be the permanent home of the Children's Museum Of Montana, it opened in 1999 at 22 Railroad Square.
• Main fundraiser, Chocolate Noir, started in 2000
• In 2017 the museum began looking for a new location
• In 2024, the Children's Museum closed temporarily to find a new home

Read More from January: Exciting Things Planned For the Great Falls Children's Museum

The Children's Museum Of Montana Has A New Name And A New Location

In April of 2025, The Children's Museum of Montana announced their new name, Spark!

Just today, June 2, 2025, the museum reports they've found a new location and hope to have it open by late this year, 2025, or early next year, 2026. The new location is at 201 Second Avenue South in Great Falls. It's in the location that housed B&B Loan and Rental for all of those years.

Children's Museum Pop Up Events Planned For Summer In The Electric City

Looking for fun, free events with Spark! for the summer? They have you covered. Feel free to join them at any of their summer time pop up events.

• 6/21/25 Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center from 9am-1pm
• 7/19/25 Gibson Park (weather permitting) from 9:30a-11:30a
• 8/16/25 Community Early Education Center 9:30a-11:30a

Spark! Is Looking For Volunteers To Help Move

Spark! is looking for volunteers on June 6 and June 7, 2025 to help them get moved in to their new building. If you'd like to volunteer, click here, then click on get involved.

Sources: KRTV, Facebook for Spark! Children's Museum