Fun, Learning, Inspiration, and Play

New Children’s Museum Open Wednesday - Monday in Hillsboro

“Mom, I don’t like this place… I love it!” - 8 year old friend 2/14/25

We’ve Expanded:

  • Main Room: Imaginative play with our green screen stage and Mercado, fort building, cars and trains, infant area, wind tunnels, glow-in-the-dark cave, and more.

  • Cartoon Room: Cartoon-making for all ages, light and color table, and more blocks.

  • Art and Science Room: Rotating crafts and experiments every day, felt art walls, fossils, and mini-cafeteria - snacks and cold brew available for purchase!

Second floor and more coming in late 2025

  • Build a Castle and Make a New Friend in our Fort Area.

  • Looking for a New Home in Hillsboro? Consider One Made from Giant Magnetic Tiles.

  • Or Maybe a Home Made from Animals? To Each Their Own.

  • Bienvenidos al Mercado! Buy Tickets and Snacks for the Show on the Green Screen Stage.

  • And What a Show It Is!

  • In Act 2, We Find Our Heros have become Dragons, Hiking with Tigers.

  • Some Kids Never Leave Our Hand-Made Train Set - and That's Okay!

  • Race Cars Supa-Dupa Fast

  • Or Build Your Own Car-Like Thing

  • Yes We Make Slime from Time-to-Time...

  • And Weird Robots that Make Art or Climb.

  • Make Your Very Own Cartoons Too. Color in Dinosaurs, Spaceships, Sharks, and Lions, and Watch them Come to Life on the Wall.

  • And Make a New Friend in the Process

  • Play With Wind...

  • And With Light.

  • Have You Experimented with Magnets and Gravity Today?

  • We Encourage Questions at FLIP, but Sometimes "Why" is Not the Right One.

  • If You Do Need Something, We're Here to Help.

  • We Have Space for the Little Ones too.

  • Even Adults Can Make New Friends.

  • Caffeine, Protein, Salty, and Sweet: Take a Break in our Mini-Cafeteria.

FLIP IN THE NEWS

  • We were on TV! Giant THANK YOU to Gresham Ford and KOIN 6 for having us on Everyday Northwest.

  • Hillsboro A&E Magazine featured us! The support and encouragement from the Hillsboro Cultural Arts District has been AMAZING!

WHO WE ARE

We operate a children’s museum in Hillsboro, Oregon as well as a mobile museum program that visits schools, libraries, family shelters, and cultural events throughout the Portland Metro Area. We serve children and their families with a special emphasis on children aged 0-10 and families from underserved communities, including low-income families, children with disabilities, immigrants, refugees, people of color, and families that lack access to stable housing.

We invite prospective volunteers of all backgrounds and abilities to get in touch and get involved.

Please email info @flipmuseum.org for more information.

WHY PLAY MATTERS

When children engage in independent, open-ended play, going wherever their imaginations take them, they develop essential skills like critical thinking, emotion management, creativity, leadership, and collaboration.

Play is crucial to healthy development, so it’s a problem that the time children spend playing has declined significantly over the last several decades.

The FLIP Museum is helping solve this play deficit by creating educational play spaces that stimulate children’s curiosity and inspire their imaginations. Because all children deserve enriching play experiences, we strive to make our museums accessible to families and children of all backgrounds and abilities.

Art Credit: Illustration by Edelle Art