American Museum of Science and Energy

Expect to spend a long day at the museum if you take the bus tour, which I highly recommend. It's all worth it. Get there by 9 am to buy tickets. Extremely good deal at $4 for seniors for museum and tour. Recommend either a hearty breakfast or buy tickets then go eat. Only snack foods there. Bus tour is 11:30 til 2:30. Perfect outing for the inner science nerd in all of us.
4 8 years ago (23-05-2018)

This place was fun and educational. Admission price is reasonable. Lots of great exhibits. It was fun for my 8 year-old. He also enjoyed learning about the Manhattan Project. There is plenty of information on the history of Oak Ridge and two good short films. Also lots of hands-on learning exhibits to keep children interested. I like the puzzle exhibits, too. The place was mostly clean and we arrived after lunch and stayed until a few minutes before closing. If you are anywhere near, this is worth the trip.
5 8 years ago (28-03-2018)

This was a ton of fun. Lots of hands on activities for the kids. If you (or your kiddo) have long hair, you can make it stand up using static electricity. My 7 year old loved the mechanical robot arms the most. There is also lots of great historical information available to.
5 8 years ago (01-05-2018)

What a fantastic find! We stopped by, thinking we'd spend the morning and ended up being there the entire day. They had enough hands-on things and demonstrations to occupy our 3 school-aged children, and more than enough to keep us adults interested
5 8 years ago (01-06-2018)

The museum has quite a bit of neat information. The displays are very dated looking and have old information in many cases. The mid-90s era Macintosh computers used in a couple of places reminded me of middle school. My 6 & 8 year old daughters liked it well enough. The number of hands on displays made it even more interesting to them. It was worth the stop to kill an hour and the price was reasonable.
3 8 years ago (02-05-2018)