The Children’s Museum of Cleveland
The Children's Museum of Cleveland is a fabulous place to spend a chilly spring day. Located just 35-40 minutes from Akron, it's definitely worth the day trip. It's designed for kids 0-8 years old.
One of the coolest features of the museum is the Wonder Lab, a big room filled with water features, a pneumatic tube system and a bubble room!
There are fountains kids can use to send balls shooting in the air, whirlpools that will swallow the balls up, tunnels and supports kids can use to build and direct streams of water or cool mist. There's a giant chalk wall kids can paint with water.
The bubble room has 5 or 6 different stations that make all kinds of bubbles, from hundreds of tiny bubbles, to a monster 5-foot bubble.
My kids always spend a long time at the pneumatic tubes, which are really quite wondrous. Kids send silk scarves through a tube system with valves they can adjust to shift the airflow and send the scarves floating through the air.
Adventure City is a two-story play city with lots of opportunities for safe climbing, building and pretend play.
Theater has a stage and seating, sound booth and dressing room with a trunk full of costumes and mirrors. I've been impressed to watch children who haven't met work together to "put on a show."
Tips:
Get an early start for this day, as they are only open 9am-1:30pm everyday except Thursday.
There's not a ton of parking, which is only a problem on very busy days like holidays and spring break.
Pack a lunch, they have a very nice place to eat, but no cafeteria.
Bring a change of clothes if you plan to let you kids play with the water for any period of time. They have nice waterproof socks for the kids to wear, but my kids always find a way to get soaked anyway.
It's very stroller friendly.
Tickets are $15 for children and adults. They do participate in the Museums for All program, making tickets just $3 for anyone on medicaid or SNAP.
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Find it at:
3813 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44115