We were in Traverse City on vacation, and it was a cloudy day with spotty rain showers and we needed to keep our 3 and 5 year old occupied. we spent $35 to admit my wife and myself, their grandpa, and both kids to basically play in an indoor playground. This place is more play cafe (without food) than museum. The water flow table is pretty cool, but that's about it. Not worth the $35 and they were bored within an hour. If you are hoping to educate your children don't enter this place with high expectations. If you just need to keep them busy you might achieve that but you will overpay.
My 2 year old loves visiting the children's museum and it's the perfect place to go on a rainy day. It is usually busy but there are many different activities that change regularly. We always bring our lunch and stay for a couple of hours. Our family has a membership, it's a great deal!
Museum is quite the stretch. It's more of a play area with a few informational posters. They charge $7 for both adults and children. We went on a weekday there were easily 100 people inside so $7 a pop seems exorbitant for a non profit. It's very small, geared towards toddlers and very young children. Customer service was poor also, after expressing surprise about the fees the woman at the front presented me with a logical fallacy about paying to bring children to a movie theater. If it's pouring rain out and you have toddlers who really need to burn off some energy this might be your spot, otherwise I would not recommend it.
There are two kinds of people who love this place, toddlers and individuals who are boat and navy seal obsessed. Unfortunately my 5 year olds were only mildly interested. $21 for 3 people and we stayed for about 40 minutes. Will I go again, probably not. Did my kids have fun, a little. Did the learn something new, possibly. But I could get a free library book and accomplish the same l goals. I wanted to like this place.
Great clean place for kids around 1-9 years old. Staff is very friendly. The exhibits are all very hands on will feel like a playground to kids. The place isn't huge but they fit a lot in without feeling crowded. Only downside is it costs $7 each for both children and adults, which adds up fast for a family. They're a non-profit though so I doubt they would charge that if they didn't need to.
Great Lakes Children S Museum is a US Museum based in Traverse City, Michigan. Great Lakes Children S Museum is located at 13240 S W Bay Shore Dr, Traverse City, MI 49684, USA.
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