Kid friendly businesses, organizations and services in the Des Moines area.
Whether you live in Ankeny, Altoona, Clive, Des Moines, Grimes, Indianola, Johnston, Urbandale, Waukee, Windsor Heights, West Des Moines or beyond, find the local resources your family needs in in the dsm4kids Directory!
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The Des Moines Symphony Orchestra is Central Iowa’s largest and most active year-round professional performing arts producing organization. The mission of the Des Moines Symphony Association is to enrich, educate and inspire our community by performing great orchestral music.
The Des Moines Symphony Academy is pleased to call The Temple for Performing Arts its home. The Symphony Academy celebrated its grand opening on September 8, 2003, beginning its mission to provide the very best music education experiences for musicians of all ages. The Symphony Academy’s facility includes eight private teaching studios and two performance halls, and it is the home of the Des Moines Symphony Youth Orchestras and the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra’s extensive music library.
The East Side Library features a large collection of automotive repair manuals as well as databases that assist even shade tree mechanics. In addition to a wide array of books, we also have a cozy reading nook complete with fireplace. Public television viewers will appreciate our extensive British film and educational DVD collection.
The Enabling Garden in Altoona (the newest of the Polk County Master Gardener gardens) is a work in progress. Started in 2002, the garden is a cooperative effort between the Polk County Extension District Master Gardeners and the City of Altoona.
The Enabling Garden is located at the Vern Willey II Trail Park.
The purpose of the Master Gardener Enabling Garden project is to provide an area that illustrates gardening for physically impaired individuals
The garden will demonstrate state-of-the-art designs for barrier-free gardening.
The Forest Avenue Library features an extensive Foreign Language collection, including materials in Spanish, Arabic, Vietnamese, and Karen. We also host a Language Learning Center where we provide computers to access Rosetta Stone, Pronunciator, and English Language Learning materials.
Children will be delighted with Rosie's Forest, our early literacy center, which includes artwork done by Sticks and a wide variety of early literacy stations where children can come to learn and play.
The museum and education center honors the U.S. Army's first officer candidate class for African American men in 1917, and the establishment of the first Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC's) in 1942.
A proud tradition of excellence and integrity born on a cavalry post at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
The Franklin Avenue Library, on Des Moines’ west side, serves the needs, wants, and tastes of our patrons with a collection of over 100,000 items. Our many media formats include books, audiobooks, music CDs, DVDs, magazines, and electronic resources, as well as over 40 Internet stations for easy online access. Let our knowledgeable staff help you find the items you are looking for, or recommend a title to try. Whether it’s information or entertainment that you seek, the Franklin Avenue Library wants to help satisfy your desires.
