As an engineer as well as a kid at heart, I loved ...

As an engineer as well as a kid at heart, I loved my visit to this place. I think my almost-seven-year-old son did too, lol. They have a rotating display, which was dinosaurs when I was there. It wasn't a huge display, but I got to touch a real Tyrannosaurus Rex thigh fossil! Like they put it there specifically so you could touch it. How cool is that?!

The permenant exhibits were interactive and interesting too. The standard Lego table and bubble area, but also they had some light painting, a really fun water area, a Giant light-bright and several chairs-on-a-block-and-tackle (which I'm still trying to explain to my son) so you could use different amounts of force to lift yourself. Fish tanks and bird feeder Webcams and pneumatic ball launchers and paper airplane launchers. Yeah, this place was the best kid-hands-on-musuem I've been to, I mean I've take my son to, yet.

Overall it seemed well maintained and clean, though a couple items from the exhibits were beaten up (understandable). All the staff we met we friendly, even the ones cleaning up after the wee little kids. Really I'd recommend this to anyone who wants to instill a little wonder and a little science into their kids in a hands-on, engaging, fun way.