This is one of those places you really need to get the membership. For a one off, it doesn't make…read moresense as a family of 4 is almost $80. For $125 you can get a 3 month membership (which we usually do), or I think it's $350 for a year. Good for kids probably 6 and under, I think they'd be bored if much older. There's 4 floors (5 areas if you include the H20 exhibit during the warmer months), we usually ever go to 3 (we skip floor 2 - Dora). H20 when its open is always a hit. The 3rd floor has many different areas (sand, balls, pretend, grocery store, fireman area). The 1st floor has magnatiles, large structures and an area which is open for projects (I forget hours) Basements is a smaller area with super heroes, trains, and a fun thing where scarves get shot up in a tube.

We were visiting from out of town and spent about 3 hours here and had a blast. My kids are 3 and…read more5 and can recommend for that age.

I found Skyscape museum while walking in the area and trying to get out of heavy snow. I wasn't…read morefully sure what to expect but I left really happy we got to experience it. Skyscape is a really engaging and a well designed experience. Theres a lot to see and do, with interactive spy style missions that kept both me and my son entertained the entire time! My son was completely locked in the whole time and I was right there pretending I definitely understood the instructions on the first try. It's mostly a hands on experience, you're not just walking through exhibits, you're actually participating, solving challenges and learning as you go. Even better, it didn't feel crowded, which made it comfortable to move through at our own pace. We were able to go back and redo some of the exhibits we enjoyed, which made the experience even more fun the second (and third) time around. Overall, a great mix of entertainment and learning, especially for kids but enjoyable for adults too. 10/10. My son loved every second. I loved pretending I knew what was going on.

What a fun and interactive place with friends or a date night! The husband and I came here as a…read moreswitch from a typical dinner and drinks date night. On weeknights, it's cheaper than the weekends, which made this experience more worth it at $27pp. Plus, you also save a couple dollars by purchasing your tickets beforehand online. We participated in the Spygames portion, which was worth doing. Once we got a wristband and setup an account, we got to start the games. They also offer free lockers (you'll want to remove any purses, bags, jackets, etc) as you'll be moving a lot. There's 10 rooms of a variety of games although some are similar or duplicates. You'll be very active jumping, climbing, and running around. The hour went by pretty quick but we were both sweating and exhausted by the end of it, so an hour is really all you need.

The American Museum of Natural History is a large, multi building complex spread across multiple…read morefloors and interconnected halls, each section leading into a different themed environment. The interior feels designed for long, continuous exploration rather than a quick walkthrough. We found ourselves drifting from one hall to the next without a clear sense of how much time had passed. The most recognizable sections we visited were the dinosaur fossil halls. The large skeletons and prehistoric displays dominate the space and create a strong sense of scale that is hard to describe until you are standing under them. The ocean life exhibits and taxidermy dioramas added a more detailed, observational layer, with carefully arranged environments that felt distinct from the fossil heavy areas. We also passed through the butterfly exhibit and some interactive displays, which introduced a lighter, more hands on contrast across the different floors and wings. Movement through the museum felt open ended and self directed. We shifted between floors and halls based on whatever caught our eye rather than following a fixed route. The size of the museum naturally led to a slower pace, and we noticed that sections often felt densely packed with information and exhibits. It was easy to spend extended time inside without fully covering everything, and we left feeling like we had only scratched the surface. Overall, the American Museum of Natural History works best for anyone who wants to lose themselves in a deep, sprawling collection of natural wonders. It is not a place to rush. It is a place to wander, pause, and let the next hall pull you in.

The absolute best museum i have ever been to! So many amazing things to discover around every…read morecorner. You can spend all day in here, it's quite spectacular!

We had a fabulous time at the Color Factory in NYC. Color Factory is an interactive museum and…read moreevery room is informative or an activity. I love that they have a coach check so you don't have to carry your coats around the experience. Another plus is you can move throughout the experience at your own pace. My favorite rooms were the confetti, silent and birthday room. They also offer gelato and ice cream. I love the wrist bands you get to take pictures during the tour.

We spent a nice, chilly afternoon at this spot and the kids loved it. This is similar to the selfie…read moremuseums out there like the Ice Cream Museum, Museum of selfies, etc. But I enjoyed the explanation of all of the colors, and shades. There were so many interactive elements and we all loved the confetti room. You're also given a QR code where you can scan it and get copies at the end (after purchasing them). The location in Soho is fun, with so many great shops and restaurants nearby. The hit of the place was the ball pool at the end (again, similar to the sprinkle pool at the Museum of Ice Cream). My kids spent hours here. The ball pool kindof smelled like poop. Not gonna lie, it was definitely a stinky spot. There was a sign nearby that explained the balls were disinfected by some type of filtration system. Okay! Regardless of the poop smell, we all had a great time! And used lots of hand sanitizer afterwards.

Sloomoo Institute surprised me. With a steep price tag of over $50 per adult and child ticket, I…read morewas skeptical. It looked too gimmicky like the Museum of Ice Cream. However, my slime-loving nine-year-old daughter really wanted to go. As a surprise, I took her. (To save money, only have one adult go.) Here's our experience. 1) Admission: On a Friday afternoon in April, we were able to get tickets online easily. DO NOT WALK IN. You can, but it's the most expensive way to experience Sloomoo. Google promo codes first that work online. A quick Google search revealed three promo codes from influencers that took 20-30% off our tickets. 2) Experience: Once your tickets are scanned and an online waiver is filled out, you'll write your "slime name" on a name tag. Pass through a hall about the history of slime and you're inside the main area. There are several rooms of "buckets" filled with all types of slime with different textures and scents. This was pretty fun and was very relaxing dipping your hands in slime. (Don't worry- you have to wipe your hands clean beforehand with a wipe. There are wipe stations everywhere.) There are a few interactive areas like a giant sling shot, a musical room, a tablet where you pick your slime companion, and a place where you're blindfolded and feel different things in slime holes. (It's not as weird as that sounds.) Part of the experience is making your own slime. You pick what type of slime you want, the scent, the color, and three charms. This took about 20-30 minutes since there are so many scents to pick from. We landed on creamy cloud slime with the passion fruit rose scent, aqua green, and three fruit charms. At the very end, there's an area where you can take off your shoes and walk through slime. Again, you wipe off your feet before and after. Still, if you don't think about how gross it is, it's a unique and fun feeling. 3) Space: There's a single restroom at the start of the museum, but due to a line, staff let us in the staff basement where there are three additional bathrooms. At the very end is a store with all types of slime, slime molds, kits, and more. Our daughter spent $47 of her own money on two slime kits and activator. It's very pricey so limit how much you spend. As a staff member told a kid, "Nothing is free here." 4) Staff: This is where it was a little off. Several staff were a bit odd with the kids. One staff member by the slime making area made a few inappropriate jokes around little kids. Often, staff had to be called to each station so waiting is expected. None were friendly or warm for working with kids. Overall, Sloomoo Institute is worth the experience if you are willing to shell out the money. Our daughter LOVED it and I was surprised how much I did too for having low expectations. However, I'd NEVER come back with that price tag. It's almost offensive.

If you live in the area you'll only make the mistake of going once. A quintessential tourist trap…read moreof NYC. Unfortunately there will be an endless supply of unsuspecting victims to keep it going. I get dizzy when I think about the smell of the place. Crammed, overpriced, nothing to learn from it.

I wanted to go on more dog-friendly adventures with my cavapoo fur-nephew, and when I saw that the…read moreAKC Museum of the Dog allows dogs to visit on Furry Friends Friday, I bought both of us tickets online to attend. Upon arrival, the staff gushed over him and spoiled him with treats. He was very excited, and loved all the attention the staff and guests were all giving him. It's funny that all the humans were interested in seeing the art, but all the dogs didn't really care and wanted to run around, sniff, and play with other dogs. There's a library on the second floor with allllll the dog books you could want to read. There are free lockers where you can store your belongings, and coat racks to hang your coats, and in my case, to store my fur-nephew's travel bag. When we were ready to leave, I realized I had messed up my locker combination, and the front desk staff was super nice with helping me retrieve my things with their master key. What a gem in Manhattan for dog lovers and their pups!

Who knew that since February 2019 this museum existed? Well, I'm glad my friend from out of town…read moretold me about it!! It actually took a 32 year hiatus and went to St. Louis, but it's back! What a cute little museum! Who doesn't like seeing and learning about adorable dogs? Many of the portraits were really impressive. There are 2 floors of canine art, digital interactive displays, and the AKC library along with a small gift shop. There is an admission charge of $15 per adult and $5 for kids, which is a little pricey. The museum is not that big. But consider it a nice donation to the doggies !

My wife (Won-ok) and I had a surprisingly good time at the Museum of Illusions a few weeks ago…read more I've got to admit: It was not a place I would have ever cared to see. I've always been bad at math and science, and I've never had much use for illusions. I thought the museum was about magic tricks or something, but, fortunately, I was wrong. I'm so glad we checked this place out. The highlight of the day was the photo opp at the "Illusion Street Station" of the NY subway system. A very kind and enthusiastic staffer named Julie encouraged us to experience that exhibit, and even took awesome photos for us that are absolutely going up on our walls. She also explained the basic of what we were looking at, and kept it in simple terms so a math/science-challenged guy like me could understand. I learned a few cool nuggets on those subjects but that was all I could absorb. That doesn't matter, though, because the museum achieved its objective with me -- sparking curiosity and a desire to learn more about the subjects it covers. Won-ok loved it, by the way, because she is all about the world of illusions. If you're looking for a completely unexpected treat in New York, stop by the Museum of Illusions -- unless it's not really there.

Came here today with my family, to see what the hype is about. The building gave me the impression…read moreim about to have fun. Once I walked in, we got checked in & paid $90 for 3ppl. I like i better get my money worth. Once I got in, i was like this place is mad trash. It was small asf, I literally scan the place & i was done in 10mins. I like wtf is this, like thats it. I was bored & ready to go. Its cool for small kids, but for us adults not the business. FYI, yah hype it up on IG, & not living up to the hype. Overpriced & not worth it. ILL NOT COME BACK HERE EVER AGAIN.!!!!

I understand the low reviews. Let me explain my point of view. If you have very young kids (say,…read moreunder 10), they're gonna see pretty lights and lots of buttons and knobs. They will mash them aimlessly and maybe enjoy it. If you have grade-school to middle-school kids (11-15) you're probably in the sweet spot for understanding and learning and having the patience to do what the activities want you to. But your kids will have to wait in line with swarms of button-mashing little kids. I thought this could also be called the Museum of Bizarre User Interfaces. User interfaces are like jokes: if you have to explain it, it's not very good. Most exhibits are some kind of input (a ball, a knob, a lever, etc.) that adjusts the parameters to some mathematical function. No exhibit has suggestions or interesting values, like "set the red knob to 2.5 look at what happens, now set it to 3.5, isn't that interesting?" None of the stations is intuitive. It takes a lot of time to figure them out. They're often just a basic menu: select a shape, now select an attribute, now adjust the attribute. But to do this you use a throttle lever, a bowling-ball sized track ball, and a gear shifter as your inputs. Some of the instructions are on touch screen kiosks not very close to the systems they describe. They would do well to do a little bit of crowd control. Something like timed entry, or maybe have some of the docents enforce a little bit of time-limit on activities. Some of the exhibits take time to really do (a driving simulator, a basketball launcher, the square-wheeled bike). So on the one hand, we need to give time to focus and understand. But also they need a bit of nudging to take turns so more kids experience it.

I was honestly surprised to see some of the lower ratings for National Museum of Mathematics, but I…read morecan also understand that it really depends on who is visiting and what they expect. I've been a couple of times with my young kids--once at the temporary location and again at the new space. If I were going purely as an adult, I'd probably find the "museum" a bit limited. It's not a traditional museum experience. But with kids--especially one who genuinely loves math--it's fantastic. What makes MoMath stand out is how interactive everything is. Kids are encouraged to touch, and explore, which keeps them engaged for hours. During one visit, there were guided stations where my child actually picked up new concepts like factorials just by playing and interacting. If your child enjoys math, problem-solving, or hands-on learning, this is a great place to spend time. It turns math into something tangible and fun, which isn't easy to do.

I had high hopes for this museum after seeing so many rave reviews, but the experience fell flat. I…read morewas quite disappointed at the lack of actual substance of the museum. The donated items were surprisingly sparse. The amount of space that certain exhibits had felt disproportionate to the weight that the show had on Broadway. The space of exhibits were largely not well utilized or well imagined leading to what was a sensory nightmare for most rooms. Music from a given musical would be playing loudly at the same time that an interview was playing. It was very hard to try to concentrate on what the interview was over the sound of music. You could even hear interviews/music from the previous room overlapping with the current room's interview and/or music. The Wicked Theater and 2001+ room had an audible loud buzzing that was quite annoying. I wish I had brought headphones as the experience gave me a headache. I wish that more rooms had the option to "pick up the phone" or do a similar action to hear an interview playing. Too much space was given to art exhibits which were only loosely related to Broadway, but were done more so to be an Instagram photo op. Cabaret is my favorite musical, but seeing a wall full of Cabaret chairs, and only three Cabaret costumes was extraordinarily odd. I had a feeling that I wouldn't love the museum when I saw a swing art piece for Hair. Unfortunately, I do not think that this is an accessible museum for many. There is a display with different props in boxes. I had to squat down to read some of the cards and see the exhibits--someone in a wheelchair would not be able to see those exhibits or exhibit cards high up. That's only one example of where I think that the exhibits and museum are not accessible. The drawings done by Al Hirschfeld were one of my favorite parts of the museum. In my opinion, your time can be better spent catching a Broadway show or going to a different museum. I almost booked a ticket instead of seeing a 2:00pm show the day before and I would have been even more disappointed if I had missed out on seeing another show for this.

As a huge Broadway fan, I definitely wanted to check out the Museum Of Broadway located in the…read moreheart of Times Square on 45th Street. It is easy to find. There is a limited time offer for NY/NJ/CT/PA residents so I took advantage of that and paid a total of $80.54 for two tickets. The price was $62.00 for the tickets, add on $11.98 in ticket fees, and $6.56 in taxes. When you first arrive, you'll be in the gift shop. I headed to the check in area and the staff told me there are lockers downstairs to store our bags and jackets. This was very helpful since I had multiple layers on. After the staff checked our tickets, we walked up to the 3rd floor to the playbill hall to see the playbills of current shows on Broadway. After watching a brief introduction video about Broadway, I started to walk through exhibits showing Broadway's history, starting in 1732 with the first documented performance in NYC, to backstage to learn how a show is made. We learnt about duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein, exhibits from Oklahoma!, Cabaret, Rent, West Side Story, Phantom of the Opera, Lion King, Wicked, and so much more. I am not familiar with some of the old shows, but once it got more recent I was more into it. There were some photo spots where there is a camera icon on the floor to capture a surprise-One of these were in the Phantom of the Opera exhibit. This was so cool! There are other photo opportunities and some interactive ones as well. Staff were very friendly, engaging, offered information, and helped take pictures. Visiting and walking through the Museum Of Broadway was a nice experience and a great activity. We spent about 2 hours walking through it.

Got to give it five stars because it is a classic New York City institution. We got here literally…read morea half hour after they opened on a Saturday morning and there were two giant security lines going out the door and going down the block a bit. By the time we left those lines were still just as long if not longer. There is so much to see here though! It's not organized as great as I would like because it's an old museum and they did things differently back then. But it's super cool with so many good things to see and totally worth every bit of it! Hoping to take my kid here someday.

A NY staple, everyone should get to the Met at some point in thier life. It is absolutely huge,…read moreyou can spend hours there and still just scratch the surface of what it has to offer. Even with a map it can be confusing to navigate. Nonetheless, it has a little bit of everything, and even non-artsy folks like myself can appreciate it. To see and appreciate everything you'd probably have to spend multiple days and visits. The only reason its not 5 stars, is again because its not easy to navigate even with a map. Both sides have to be accessed serperatly, and each side has sub levels to it, so it can be difficult to see everything and also to navigate in general. All that said, its still something that should be on everyone's bucket list.