Exploratorium

Very cheesy exhibits, boring and very overpriced. Paid $50 for 2.

Fun place but do not buy the food, was WAY over priced and didn't taste good!

There were toooo many school children who were running around and cutting through to play with whatever you were using. The center in itself was fun but 3 hours in and I'm not done because of those kids!

Very little interesting science. The majority of the museum felt designed for kids. Regrettably the price is very steep for what is offered.

$ 30 / person to be pushed and yelled at by children ... If you are not one of these families, forget it.

Get me out of here!!!!! Forced to go whenever we go on our school trip. Just not my cup of science tea.

Parking in this area is crazy. $0.25/4 minutes. Find a damn garage.

Its not like it used to be, now its like a kids play area. Lots of non functional displays due to kids beating the crap out of them. All while the parents watching and not caring.

I was here on opening day in 2013 and not much has changed

Great potential bad execution. Cool stuff all around, but nobody to look out for it or help visitors. If there are any schools visiting, it could make it impossible to visit once the kids are wrecking the exhibits with no supervision whatsoever.

Pretty boring if you have a degree in the life sciences, then you may have already seen most of the exhibits in the center during your studies. It was frustrating how they would demonstrate interesting phenomena, but they wouldn t give any practical applications for that knowledge. It seems more appropriate for young kids that just want to be wow d without any explanation.

I gotta say I much preferred the old space. This new one is gorgeous but is overwhelming and just way too much of a "good thing". It appears there's like 5-6 times more exhibits than at the Palace of Fine Arts location but at least there 70%+ of the exhibits were interesting and fun. At the new place it's maybe 30-40% and the rest about as interesting as chapter 28 of any college physics, biology or chemistry text book. Yawn. Seems they went for major quantity over interesting quality. The exhibits are well-done but after a while are just plain boring. Also the lay-out of the place is just seemingly disjointed and not very explicitly understood or flowing, and I could not figure out any set organization that would make sense for any parent without really studying the map and floor plan, let alone any kid under 10, which was about 90% of the kids there. This all resulted is kids just running around, slapping and smacking buttons or frantically turning knobs and if they did not see something happen that was interesting or cool in 5-10 seconds would just move on...makes for a very disorganized, tiring and crazy atmosphere inside with limited fun past perhaps an hour or so.

More for small children. Don't eat there, the food is overpriced. 74.00 for 3 hamburgers, no fries! O.o

Not for toddlers. If my tickets weren't free, I would be crying right now on wasted moneys lol

It is not a museum for children, it is tedious even for adults. I do not recommend it

It's a good place for kids to go and run around, how much they learn is up to them.

Came here with a group of 3 on a Thursday for After Dark. Tickets were $15 online, and we parked a block away in a lot across the street ($15 evening parking). There's cheaper Exploratorium parking directly across the street. Pros: -restaurant looked decent -short line for prepaid tickets Cons: -way too many people. The entire place was packed, and we had to wait for a lot of exhibits -boring exhibits. As an engineer and scientist by training, I didn't learn anything from any of the exhibits, and most of them were ones I had already seen before. -Adler Dome closed for After Dark -Zoe Keating special performance looked incredibly overbooked

Expensive and the attraction helpers were non existent just chatting between themselves

Too many pe pole that didn't want to learn. My son loves to question, why, so when he can read all about something, it's great. However out trip here was a disappointment because people were pushing and shoving each other so they could "play"!

Its a huge place, recommended for kids and parents. So boring if you wanna go with friends...