OMSI Review

So much to see and do, fun for all ages and interests

Great museum with lots of hands on activities. Definitely a family/kids museum, it was complete madness and felt like I needed hand sanitizer the whole time. Would love to check out the Plantarium one day

This is a phenomenal place for both children and adults! We have been very grateful to have the opportunity to come here numerous times, all of which were very fun, exciting, and adventurous. For the Young at Heart, the adults, I suggest the Omsi After Dark! It's a great time to socialize, drink good drinks, and have some fun without the kids! I find their rotating exhibits are very fascinating. All-in-all, I highly recommend Omsi, they always do a very good job for me and my family.

Great for the kids and really fun after dark adult activities

What a fun place for both children and their parents. The place is so huge we could not go through everything in a day.
Your children will learn by playing, which is the way to go!
We have an infant and a preschooler. There was a big playroom you get in without shoes on you and it has a fenced infant play room where non-walkers or a mature walkers can play safely.
Good place to take a break for parents too.

Their cafeteria has surprisingly good foods. The quality is good, the quantity is great, and the price is average.
We went there on the first Sunday. Hence the admission fee for an adult was 2 dollars.

We like the children's area best. Its confined to 1 room so it's manageable. They have rotating exhibits and good food at the cafeteria.

What a beautiful and interesting place. There are many things to learn about science, engineering and culture from all the world. I totally recommend go to the OMSI.

Great exhibit of King Tutankhamun, recommend seeing it.

Always a great time to be had here. Thank you OMSI for years of being a Portland classic.

The submarine tour is a MUST, but the museum itself is nothing special. Mostly geared towards small children. Best to go when the traveling exhibit is something good.

We ve been going to OMSI since the 80 s, but it had been about 3 years since our last visit. We went this time because of the Pixar exhibit, which turned out to be fantastic. Spent a good 2 hours in that exhibit alone. The rest of the museum unfortunately is a shell of its former self. Much has been removed and it feels very dated and empty. 5 stars for the Pixar exhibit; 3 stars for the rest of the museum.

I love coming down to OMSI, they have wonderful city scapes of Portland and the experience is always intriguing. Highly recommended.

Omg we had so much fun. Great for any age. The food was also good. It's a must see you will be glad you went. I will definitely be back.

Fantastic value for the money. 3rd year of our family membership, and we will continue to come for many years.

This is a great place for children aged 1 and up! They have a great "playground" area upstairs that is for children under 6 (they even have a small infant area in there). There are also a lot of great interactive exhibits that children and adults will enjoy throughout!

Great hands-on science museum! Restaurant, gift shop, great permanent exhibits, and interesting visiting exhibits. I once saw Egyptian mummies there (no touching, of course). They also had a Sherlock Holmes forensics exhibit. And dinosaurs. And many other visiting exhibits.

Great place for kids. There are so many activities for kids of all ages. They even have a cute area with a fish tank close to the ground for babies who can't walk. I recommend going when it first opens so that your child can run around, then around 11 the resturant opens(which has great food). I was surpised on the amount of parking spaces were available, which is always great. My only complaint about the restaurant is that they didn't have fruit bowls for kids and had to pay extra for a small bowl of berries.

Soo much fun. Check out the adult nights if you're over 21

If doing the sub tour and really want a thorough experience, catch the technical tour. planetarium was neat, except fpr the young girl in front of me wanted to "snap" (or whatever you kids say) the whole thing. a swift kick to the back of her chair stopped that. be sure to check what special exhibits are there. other than that, I'd bring my child here once she gets older (5 - 10).

We took my kid here about a month before his 8th birthday. Before the trip, he said he didn't like learning. But he spent a lot of time in the chemistry lab asking about what all of the molecules do. He also seemed to love the robot exhibit, and very nearly chose a robotics kit as his souvenir.
Even without the kiddo, we love seeing the special exhibits, as well as the movies. The accessible seating is up the elevator, but they sat us before general seating, so we could be sure to have enough room.
There's quite a few single occupancy bathrooms scattered around the museum, and all of the ones I've used were larger than standard accessible bathrooms. I very much appreciate the extra room!

Great family activities for all ages. Went on a rainy day and spent hours with elementary school kids and adults highly entertained. Brain puzzles, science, things to build, animals, engineering, tons of things to do. We bought the basic tickets and avoided special exhibits. Memberships save you money, don't get you in free. We didn't get to all the stations or rooms.

Everything except the Body exhibit and the submarine tour is closed right now.

Great place for little kids and big. Lots of hands on things. My youngest loves the sand box. I am annoyed that the main exhibit always costs more. And everything else seems to too. Like why have a 170+ membership and then still have to pay for the shows.

A great experience for all ages, always a lot to see and learn, rotating exhibits keep it fresh and exciting. Perfect for families, great hands on activities for the kids.

It was my first time going treated my self, as a Christmas present saw the king tut exhibit, I must say it was absolutely great.but was dissapointed with restaurant. Food not good. Honestly speaking, 30 plus dollars for two sandwiches and and drinks. Sandwiches where not good. Will never go there again.

A lot of the reviews note that this is for kids but actually adults can learn a lot also if you are lucky. There are loud bacteria-ridden kids all over the place so learning something can be a task. Basically the environment is kind of like giving two monkeys, one banana. Plan to arrive early and avoid rainy weekend days as they are the most crowded. Visiting the planetarium can take away from time exploring the massive display area - if you want to see the stars, drive out of city limits and look up. There are many inactive teaching activities and so many it is hard to see it all in a day. OMSI needs an adults only day.

Great place to bring the family. Kid loved it ecen though he was only 2. Lots of things for older kids and adults too.

Amazing place to visit for the curious mind, we've spent 4+ hours for each visit. It is great to be able to use the ASTC Travel Passport Program from our local participating science center.

Our family spent the day here on our trip. The kids loved the robot and the submarine tour. Plenty of activities to keep the kids busy.

Fantastic museum for K-12 and even curious adults. Engaging exhibits and well laid-out.

It was so busy. The line was outside. Good thing we are members. It was fun!

Submarine tour is one the best here. Lot of Engineering hands of activities.I have been in lot of museums but this one has THE BEST exhibits kids can experience. ex: electricity transfers,picture with Einstein.If accompanied with adult who is engineer you have whole day to spend. Good part is volunteers who help kids to understand the concepts.

Pompeii was a great exhibit. Informative on the daily lives people lived before the horrific destruction.

Great place for a fun time learning science. There is something for every age and terrific rotating exhibits. This visit featured robots. There is even a submarine tied up at the dock which you can your.

It's been 10 years since last I brought kids to OMSI. No change - almost completely the same exhibits. They enjoyed it, but the older kids were quickly bored.

Great place to bring the family. They have a submarine that u can tour keep in mind it is 5 dollars extra, they also have a planetarium, definitely a must see, it is so kool the kids will love it. They have special events running all the time so go on line and check to see what they have going on that week or month. If you go on line and buy your tickets ahead of time you get a discount usually.

I had a lot of fun, as usual, at this museum. I highly recommend it!

During COVID most of the exhibits are closed & the price to get into the current exhibit is WAY over priced. Don t waste your money & definitely don t bring your little kids because theyll be disappointed. Also the people at the front are so rude. I wish I could get my money back.

Not visiting OMSI, but the light festival which had small creative, artistic displays all around it and the neighborhood.

Great for adults and children alike. Very family oriented.

OMSI is a unique experience, and a must have if you are visiting Portland. You will find incredible displays, learn, and get your mind working overdrive depending on the exhibit. Food, drink, art, and science will great you here.

Oregon's fun science center for kids, it has alot of activities to get kids interested in science

Fascinating exhibits and a stunning exhibition that's new every year. Well worth every penny.

Loved it. A great place to spend an afternoon the kiddos.

The event we went to-tequila and tapas could have had bigger food bites and more food options but it was a great time. OMSI is really cool.

Always a fun place. My favorite is the cherry-dipped sundae.

Very fun place! And they show current and cool movies!

omsi after dark (no kids event) is crowded but very fun

I've been visiting OMSI since I was in girl scouts. We learn something new every time.

Loved it! Thank you for bringing back the Depeche Mode Laser Light Show

I love it here, I feel like a kid again and the submarine was fantastic I will definitely come back.

Sometimes it's a bit expensive, but it's always worth it. Because science!

This place is great. I ve been coming here since I was a kid!

Drove here to see "King Tut", waited in line for an hour after trying to find parking and sold out. Waste of time... We will not recommend OMSI to anyone. Why even have an Xzibit you can't see or have limited viewing.

Love this place. Definitely worth getting the membership to! My family's favorite is going to the hands on chemistry room.

Great fun place, changes main exhibits about every 3 months, great place for kids. Book a private party here, the chefs at Theory put out some pretty amazing stuff but only special orders.

Become a member, (a great Christmas gift) save some money and watch the smiles on all the kids and the adults and learn something new.

Very interesting shows, lots of hands on stuff for kids, helpful staff

Over priced, over crowded. Could not enjoy the Pompeii exhibit because of the cattle-call crowd. Could not even get close enough to some of the exhibits to read about them. Over hyped, under whelmed.

Fun for everyone. There's all sorts of hands-on stuff for ALL ages.

Family oriented museum. Seemed like a great place to go with kids.

Everything was sold out. Enjoyed what we saw but was a Three hour drive. Didn't get to see what we wanted.

They need to add Children to the name because other than the 3d movie and submarine everything else was for kids.
Submarine was great.

Great place for little and bigger kids to play and learn

OMSI after dark is one of the most fun date nights I have ever been on. Going without the kids more fun that I thought it would be. Definitely recommend this for the older kids

One of the best museums ever been! Should be visited!

Extrememly dissapointed in how we were treated. A last moment decission to visit the Pompei Exhibit and did not have my parking pass or Memebership Card. Brett was unfriendly. He struggle to find my membership even with my information in front of him. He was unable to help with validating that I had purchased a year long parking pass and I was charged an additional fee without apology. No smile or thank you.
We received two tickets to the Theater ony to find out that it had nothing to do with the Pompei Exhibit, as we were told and that the Planetarium is closed. The Volcano experience was, to say the least, underwhelming and a childish.
The exhibit was otherwise fascinating but now that I have to pay each time and have tickets that I can't use, I won't be back. Or renew my membership.

Great place for all ages! Attractions for teeny tiny to adults. Nights for just 21+ with drinks and food samples as well as food to order. Prices are kinda high buy worth it if you make a day of it to take in all the museum had to offer! Very educational, fun, hands on. Must go!!!