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A Partnership for Education

Sendik’s Food Market is pleased to partner with the Betty Brinn Children’s Museum, southeastern Wisconsin’s premier educational facility devoted to helping young children develop skills that will help them succeed in school—and for a lifetime.  Early learning is a critical tool for improving school readiness, and an important investment in our community’s future. The Betty Brinn Children’s Museum is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational experiences that help young children acquire fundamental skills during their formative years, and to educating adults about the profound influence of early learning on a child’s success in school and throughout adult life. The Museum serves 160,000 children and adults annually from throughout Southeastern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. Museum exhibits and programs are designed for children up to age 10, but focus on meeting the developmental needs of infants, toddlers and preschoolers. The Museum is considered one of the best facilities of its kind in the nation and is among the most respected and popular family resources in Milwaukee. Because the Museum does not receive any operating assistance from the United Way or from city, county, or state governments, private contributions are essential to its operation.

Interactive Exhibits

The Museum has featured a variety of engaging permanent and changing activities during its 12-year presence at Milwaukee’s lakefront including: It’s Artastic!, where children create and perform as they learn about the visual, language, and performing arts; My Body Works, an area that focuses on physiology and making healthy choices; Raceways, where children can have fun as they explore the science of motion; Betty’s Busy Backyard, a pretend outdoor environment designed just for infants and toddlers; and A Trading Place and WBB-TV, a series of kid-sized venues where children learn about the people, places, and processes that make a community work.

Museum visitors can now enjoy a pretend Sendik’s Food Market which provides children with amazing new role-play and learning opportunities. Visitors to the market can shop, sort, and stock pretend produce, floral, meat, dry goods, dairy, and frozen food items, load and unload a delivery truck, and assist customers in the checkout lane with a scanner and cash register. The Sendik’s Food Market exhibit has become a favorite stop for little shoppers!

Educational Programs

The Museum's exhibit experience is complemented by hands-on educational programs. Weekly workshops, including Tot Time, Pre-School Pop-In, Art Smart, Puppet Play, Open Art Studio and Betty's Broadway provide children and caregivers with an opportunity to play and learn together. Betty Brinn Children's Museum Cake PuzzleThere are also special programs throughout the year, including theater productions, dance and musical performances, art workshops, science and nature programs, and story times.

The Museum's popular field trip programs benefit thousands of school and community groups annually. The outreach programs ensure access by all children and families in our community. They may enroll in Family Focus, a program that provides free parenting education, membership, and transportation subsidies to families in need. Free and reduced admission is also available to schools, child care centers, and community groups that qualify. And, all children and families can visit the Museum free of charge on the third Thursday of each month during the Wauwatosa Savings Bank & FOX 6 Neighborhood Night.

Thank you to the vendors who sponsored Betty Brinn Sendik's