Our Strategic Plan, Summarized

Fall 2025-Summer 2028

Over the next three years, The FLIP Museum will strengthen the local economy, build a more connected community, and collaborate with community partners to become a rich educational resource that serves all of Portland’s children and families. Portland is the only major metropolitan area that lacks a full-scale children’s museum. FLIP is here to make sure that the current generation of children in Portland won’t have to grow up without one! Here are the four pillars of our strategic plan:

We will pursue a flagship location in Portland.

Our flagship location will serve as the linchpin of our organization’s long-term financial stability. It will be large enough to serve the entire Portland metropolitan area and beyond.

With the capacity to serve over 300,000 people a year, this fully-fledged children’s museum will attract tourists and help revitalize Portland.

We will expand our Hillsboro location.

Our first brick-and-mortar location will grow by a third in early 2026!

This location serves families from diverse backgrounds. It is accessible to rural communities and is visited by schools as far away as Clatskanie and Tillamook. Increasing the museum’s area will allow FLIP to introduce exciting new programming to this vibrant community space.

We will offer more museum installations.

Our Central Beaverton Library installation has been a resounding success, providing free explorative play opportunities to an estimated 30,000 children a year!

FLIP will install more exhibits at libraries and other community spaces throughout the tri-county area.

We will expand our mobile museum program.

Not all caregivers have the time or ability to bring their children to a museum. FLIP’s fleet of two traveling museums successfully reaches underserved communities by bringing exhibits directly to the schools, shelters, libraries, and events that serve them.

In response to high demand, FLIP will visit more communities and add new exhibits and programs to the mobile museum.