In their first ribbon cutting of 2025, leaders from the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce cut the “umbilical cord” Friday on the Museum of Motherhood’s newest attraction: the “Escape Womb.”
The Museum of Motherhood (or MoM, for short), located in St. Pete’s Warehouse Arts District, is the country’s first and only exhibition and education center devoted to the art, science and “her-story” of women, mothers and families inclusive of all reproductive identities. The nonprofit museum’s new immersive escape room was created to transform the way visitors experience reproductive science and maternal history.
“My son actually suggested the idea,” said Joy Rose, Founder and Director of the Museum of Motherhood. “We talk a lot philosophically about kids and parents and what it is to procreate, and he said to me years ago, ‘Mom, you should do an escape womb.’ So our whole team went to an escape room this summer, and this is what came out of it. Visitors have to learn about conception, gestation and birth to get the answers that unlock all the locks.”
“To know that St. Pete has the only museum of motherhood in the world… this is St. Pete,” said Chris Steinocher, St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce President and CEO, at Friday’s ribbon cutting ceremony. “We know the community will embrace this because this is about the arts, this is about the science, and this is about love. Those are all things we care about in St. Pete.”…