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On a list of indoor playgrounds, a downtown science museum needs explaining, and the explanation is a single room. KidScience is where the under-sevens go: water, nature and building zones designed for open-ended messing about rather than exhibits to read, and it comes with general admission rather than as an extra. For a family with a two-year-old, that room is the visit and the rest of the building is a bonus.
Older kids get a different museum. Live animals run through it — frogs, birds, and a wall of small aquariums that reviewers say works far better with children than a handful of huge tanks would, because everything sits at eye level. There is a maker space where kids build with cardboard, duct tape and glue and carry the result home, a LEGO studio, and floor staff who come to you with a snake or a puzzle rather than waiting to be asked. The caveat that recurs in reviews: more than one visitor reports finding a share of the interactive exhibits broken or unfinished, which lands harder here than it would elsewhere, because touching things is the entire premise.
Downtown means limited parking on a busy day and a check-in line that can run long; the crush is Saturday from midday into late afternoon. Families spend anywhere from ninety minutes to most of a day. Get one thing straight before you arrive: the IMAX dome and the planetarium are add-ons rather than part of admission, and they run about twenty minutes each — short documentaries, not a feature film — so do not promise a movie you have not already bought.
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People typically spend 1.5-3.5 hours here
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