Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
add photosThe Children's Museum is a place for kids to innovate and explore. Exhibits include an auto garage/workshop, an art studio, an infant/toddler room, and the most important component of any Children's Museum - waterplay!
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"Wonderful!"
Prices are reasonable, military and dependents get in free. Parking in fish area is $5 a car for the whole day. As soon as you walk in you are looking at a room dedicated to Mr. Rogers neighborhood. There is a castle the kids can open little doors and hear sounds, a large trolley and piano that you can pick a song for and watch it play. There is a large climbing maze going UP the wall, inside the actual wall where you can watch your kids climb up and around. The stairs play sounds as you go up and down. There is so much to do! A garage where they can explore a smart car that has been torn apart ( but still safe ), has a slide and large play ramp that lets them crank little parachute men up to the ceiling then watch them float down. A gravity room that is tilted on its side, a wind exhibit with a tornado simulator in it and so much! The food is very reasonable, nothing more than $5, the soda pop is in very small bottles ( great for portion control ). There is a bathroom on every floor, and the top floor is devoted to water play! This is what impressed me most. They outfitted the kids with crocs and raincoats so they wouldn't get to wet. And if they did they had a wall of hand dryers ( low and high ) to help dry them off. They had a water section that had spouts coming off the floor, the kids connected plastic pipes to direct the water. Two huge upraised pools, where the kids built boats and then cranked a handle to make a mini whirlpool. This place was so much fun!
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"Its an innovative area"
Pittsburgh children's museum is a very creative place for kids.I love pittsburgh and we drive to pittsburgh most often.We went once when my kid was 1 year old.Now when we go there,she enjoys by participating in every activity.She enjoys the water play most.We all enjoyed a lot.She also enjoyed the painting activity.The theatre activity is also awesome.Its really very creative museum for growing children.
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"Oh Won't You Be My Neighbour"
This is a fantastic children's museum. The first floor hosts an exhibit on Mr. Roger's neighborhood that features a player piano. a trolley car, and play castle among other things. The traveling exhibits, and art area, and a large construction toy area (geared towards older kids) are also on the main floor. The second floor is geared towards toddlers and young children. There are some neat trains to play with and a large toy that is like a light bright. The top floor is all water fun. My son loves to play with the boats and other toys. Bring a spare pair of clothes. The kids will be wet!
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"Children's Museum is awesome!"
The Pittsburgh Children's Museum is an awesome place to take the kids. Especially the art center. Has things for all ages to do and create. Their is an area that looks like an ant far. Tons of fun for toddlers and older children. Younger children will have difficulty with it though. If you are planning to make it all lthe way to the top to the water level, I recommend a change of clothes. The kids always seem to have a blast, but end up soaked for the ride home.Have a blast
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"children's museum"
I love this place. It is a really nice way to tire out your kids on a weekend afternoon. Bring a change of clothes for the water room on the 3rd floor because your kids and you will get wet! Be careful not to wait too long to do the painting on the first floor because they pack up everything earlier than you expect and then your kids have missed all the creative art stuff.
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"One of the best kid's museums..."
We took our 3 year old granddaughter here for the day and she had a ball. It is very exciting and imaginative. Be sure to bring extra clothes and maybe a raincoat as the water area which the kids love is really, really a water area. We had a wild, wet time.
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"Fun with the Family"
In November 2004 the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh opened its expanded headquarters. The spectacular world-class children’s center links the Children’s Museum housed in the old Allegheny Post Office to the neighboring Buhl building, with a new three-story structure whose entire facade is “screened” by a shimmering wind sculpture. With four times more space, the museum presents programs, exhibits, and performances to nurture children’s innate joy, creativity, and curiosity.
Kids interact with Real Stuff exhibits, where they can explore a MINI Cooper to learn about mechanics in the Garage; create and sail a boat down a 53-foot waterway in Waterplay; climb into the Attic, where gravity and common sense take a holiday; create a silkscreen, make paper, emboss and sculpt in the Studio, visit King Friday’s palace, drive the trolley and sing familiar songs in a life size re-creation of the original Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood television set, and much, much more. There’s even a special space designed for toddlers.
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"Decent children's museum"
This is another one of those museums that's hard to find if you don't know the area or don't have a good GPS. Some of the areas were a lot of fun for the kids, and I was a big fan of the Mr. Rogers exhibit with its life-size trolley and make-believe castle. Other parts we kind of glossed over because they didn't really hold the kids' interest. We spent a morning here, about 3 hours, and had pretty much seen everything there was to see.
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