All the brochures described this as a "hands-on" museum dedicated to technology. We'd been to places like this before, which were fun. I recall going to one in Ottawa (Canada) in high school, and more recently the Discovery Cube near Anaheim. Since we had some free time, we figured it was worth checking out. We knew we wouldn't have time to do an IMAX movie there, as it was only full-length features currently being shown. Places like this usually have shorter presentations (15-30 minutes) on various subjects.
Let's say this was not worth any of the money we paid for the rather expensive entry fee. There were a handful of exhibits scattered about, but primarily this was designed as a day care. School aged kids were running hog-wild all over the place, knocking other patrons out of the way, and screaming as they did so. Other than the exasperated staff, there were no visible adults controlling these kids. That made it difficult to see any of the exhibits (the few there were). For the size of the exhibit space, it was only using a fraction of the space available.
After about twenty minutes, we'd seen all we could, given the chaotic nature of this place. It was clear this was not a museum at all, but a place where the local grade-school kids were dumped off while their teachers disappeared somewhere else to have a few hours of peace and quiet. Really, there was nothing "innovative" about this place. It was a complete waste of time and money.
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