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The Children's Museum

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The Children’s Museum in West Hartford and Roaring Brook Nature Center in Canton are Connecticut’s premiere destinations for exploration and education. The Children's Museum Wildlife Sanctuary is home to more than 100 live rescued animals. Travelers Science Dome is CT's largest digital full dome planetarium, and fun with science and nature for the family or school group, scout group, and more. Great place for a birthday party for your favorite child. Free onsite parking, walking distance to West Hartford Center and Blue Back Square. Admission: $14.75 ages 13 and up, $13.75 for children age 2-12 and senior age 63+; free for under age 2. Join our email list for special offers and discounts! Open Tuesday -
Saturday 9:00am-4:00pm, Sunday 11:00am-4:00pm. The Children’s Museum in West Hartford and Roaring Brook Nature Center in Canton are Connecticut’s premiere destinations for exploration and education. The Children's Museum Wildlife Sanctuary is home to more than 100 live rescued animals. Travelers Science Dome is CT's largest digital full dome planetarium, and fun with science and nature for the family or school group, scout group (we have Camp-ins!), and more. Great place for a birthday party for your favorite child. Free onsite parking, walking distance to West Hartford Center and Blue Back Square. Admission: $14.75 ages 13 and up, $13.75 for children age 2-12 and senior age 63+; free for under age 2. Join our email list for special offers and discounts! Open Tuesday -
Saturday 9:00am-4:00pm, Sunday 11:00am-4:00pm. Open Mondays during the summer and on local school holidays.



"A museum where children can learn and have fun! The Children’s Museum is a non-profit educational institution that strives to inspire life-long learning among children and their caregivers by providing experiential learning programs covering STEAM, health, nature and the environment. Founded in 1927 as a one-room natural history museum in The Pond House at Elizabeth Park in Hartford, The Children’s Museum is the fifth oldest children’s museum in the nation. Recently the museum has moved to 180 Mohegan Drive in West Hartford."
Address: 950 Trout Brook Dr, West Hartford 06119
Phone: (860) 231-2824
Email: gro.tcmuesumsnerdlihceht@ofni
Parking: Lot
State: CT
City: West Hartford
Street Number: 950 Trout Brook Dr
Zip Code: 06119
categories: children's museum


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Reviews
Kids had fun, especially when it was time to feed the animals, other than that it has couple of rooms for the kids to play in.
Fun place for toddlers! Little expensive but fun for kids
Only go if you have free tickets. We spent about 15 minutes here. It is currently just a building with a few activities as they are waiting to find a new location for the real museum. Definitely DO NOT SPEND MONEY TO GO HERE! They should warn you before you go
Currently there just isn't enough interactive exhibits to keep your child entertained for more than 1 hour. Even then, most of them weren't very engaging. This children's museum is as if they collected old or outdated exhibits from other children's museum that were meant to be thrown away. There is an outdoor area with a caged bobcat and coyote, and what looks like a butterfly garden which most likely won't be open during covid. The staff are super friendly, nice, and very helpful. My children did enjoy their time here, but stated they had no desire to come back.
I want to make something clear. My three 3 Stars rating was only because I have two kids who are 9 & 8 years old and I think this place is meant IMO for younger kids. It also has a limited amount of interactive features. But, the fact that it has live animals and butterfly sanctuaries is a good thing. The people who work there will guide you and answer any questions that you may have. Total time spent will be between one to one and half hour.
We've been coming here for 2 decades with our kids. Our youngest is finally aging up relative to this museum's audience which I'dsay is <11yrs. They have a lot of great interactive exhibits here, they are very good and self explanatory in most cases.The facility itself is old but is relatively well maintained. If your kids are older I think they might find it a little bit boring, but the planetarium has some great shows as well, Many of which actually are suitable for kids a little bit older than 12. It's nice to have such a well rounded kids museum in the area, hopefully it will stay in the area in the years ahead...
I guess this place deserves one star… I may have put 0 stars if it was an option, but the photos of this place are either outdated or a completely different place because this was nothing like the photos. It was $45 for 2 adults and a child to walk through the basement hallway of an old repurposed school building. They had animals in displays that you could freely walk through petco to see… we were very disappointed. Not fun at all…. The hands on things for kids were alright I guess but again nothing like what it shows in the photos…. Really weird. And overpriced.
This is a cute little museum that keeps unfolding to reveal a little bit more and a little bit more around each corner. Between the animals and the interactive maze and the dinosaur room and the butterfly garden and, of course, Connie the Whale, we spent nearly two and a half hours there! The timed entry ticketing system was straightforward, the staff was friendly, the museum had lots of information to share throughout, and overall it was a good value.
Took my grandson here and he had so much fun Loved the campers room and being able to see live animalsVisited onWeekdayWait timeNo waitReservation recommendedYesPrice for adult entry$11–15
The place is currently at a church/synagogue and school. There are a few rooms set up in the basement where you are allowed to be. The rooms are classrooms that have been cleared out and a few objects are in each room. A couple rooms have animals. The classroom walls and floors are dreary and boring. Its not a place I'd recommend going for inspiration, life giving, or a hopeful place. I'd rather be out in nature than in a place like this.
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