Overview

The Bakken Museum brings in-person and digital outreach to schools, community centers, and libraries all over the region! Learn about bringing exciting STEM education to your community.

Additional Information

• The Bakken Museum's offsite educational programs encourage curious minds to explore interactive programs and experiences designed to inspire engagement with science and innovation. The museum provides over 1,250 programs to over 44,700 individuals each year.
• Our outreach team travels across Minnesota and the Upper Midwest to provide engaging STEM programs to students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. The museum's programs use humor and exciting demonstrations to explore the connections between science, technology, and the humanities.
• See Our 2025-2026 Outreach Education Packet.

In-Person Outreach

• Assemblies & Residencies: Your chance to experience the drama of science AND theater in your gym, auditorium or cafeteria. Perfect for libraries, scout groups, science fairs, and other family or youth events outside of the school day too.
• Library Programs: Interested in bringing our programs to your library? We love to share science with our communities! Find out how to bring the excitement of STEM to a library near you!
• Workshops: Let us WOW you with science, technology, engineering, and math as Bakken Educators bring exciting experiences right into your schoolroom.
• STEM Inspiration Stations: These hands-on STEM activities are designed to ignite your imagination and rolled up into perfect packages for your event. Ideal for family nights, libraries, and other events outside of the school days.

Collaborations

• The Bakken Museum, in collaboration with The Franklin Institute, offering free out of school time STEM programming throughout Minnesota. This program, GSK Science in the Summer™, is for elementary-aged students designed to inspire the next generation of scientists. Students will be introduced to five "Be a Physicist!" activities that each highlight a real-world career. They will play the role of a laser scientist, power plant engineer, materials scientist, and more by finding solutions to problems tackled by these scientists. The program helps students recognize the importance of science, think scientifically, and improve problem-solving skills through age-appropriate activities that include sending laser signals to relay messages to Earth, engineering a device to amplify video game sound, and designing a ski suit to keep athletes warm.

Program Inquiry

• Interested in learning more about a Bakken Museum Outreach Program? Tell us a little bit about yourself and the program that you'd like more information about and one of our outreach educators will get in touch with you to help plan your awesome STEM education program. We will respond to your inquiry within 24-48 hours.
• We prefer partnering with several other groups. If you have other partners at the event, please let us know who they are or what they are bringing, so we can avoid overlapping activities.