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This place is awesome! Learned a ton about STEM su...

This place is awesome! Learned a ton about STEM subjects and more! Great place to bring your friends and family. Really glad to have this place promoting helping repair the earth and environment. If you are there check out the Solve for Earth exhibit if you can. I would highly recommend this place for all ages and walks of life!

Had so much fun today with all the interesting, ch...

Had so much fun today with all the interesting, challenging, thought-provoking, mostly intuitive, creative and fun hands on exhibits that I wish I had young kids with me in order to see all the joy in their eyes! All the staff were super and genuinely excited to provide instructions to every person that asked.

Can t help but think this place has lost focus in ...

Can t help but think this place has lost focus in recent years. Its old name Tech Museum of Innovation was more about various hands-on tech exhibits and just random cool stuff for kids to explore. It was always a neat place to visit and had that cool 90s vibe (that s a good thing). Now they ve changed the name to The Tech Interactive and the museum has ironically moved away from being interactive to an actual museum, as its old name suggested. It s very mature now and doesn t really have that cool exploration vibe anymore. I remember how awesome it was to enter that massive atrium after buying tickets and looking up and down at the vast number of tech exhibits there were. They ve switched focus to fewer, large-scale exhibits which weirdly don t seem to have as much to do with tech. I support the initiative of renovating dated exhibits and even replacing old ones, but I m not sure the direction they ve gone is a good one. There s a lot of biology-related stuff and while that has a place in children s education, I don t think The Tech is where it should be taught.

In other, more simple terms, I d be much more excited as a kid to go to a museum where I could design my own roller coaster, race wheelchairs or experience an earthquake, than use augmented reality to view deconstructed human bodies through a tablet computer. The museum doesn t lack cool exhibits, mind you - it just does compared to what it had 10 years ago. It used to be wacky, with weird, random tech-related exhibits that kids could just run to and have the time of their lives. It seems like a lot of the exhibits they have today won t be appreciated by kids as much. I m just sad that along with the name change came a change in the focus of the museum as a whole.

We have been to many science and children s museum...

We have been to many science and children s museums with my son, now six. The Tech is without a doubt one of the best we have ever been to for my son s love of building and creating. We are only in San Jose for three days and may go twice just because he loved it so much. We avoided the body section because even his parents were too squeamish for that, but everything else was an amazing opportunity to explore science and engineering. Come here often.

We had such a great time! There were activities fo...

We had such a great time! There were activities for lots of different ages and we spent so much time upstairs that we had to come back the next day to experience most of the downstairs. The family pass was a good deal because it pays for itself after the second visit. Now we have the pass for the next year! We will be back since the museum has some exhibits that were closed during our visits. If you park in the SJ parking garages, you can get your parking validated and only pay $5 for the day!

The tech museum of innovation

The tech museum of innovation

4.6