Children's Museum Of Richmond

08/14/05

Great place to enjoy a day by Donna S. at InsiderPages

Contributor at Insider Pages

The Children's Museum has a lot to offer a family with small children, there are so many opportunities to play and learn from a room for toddlers to a room for all kinds of crafts and a changing education exhibit that is always sure to please.

The memberships are pretty reasonable but the cost for a one day visit is overpriced.

A place to climb, explore, experiment and play until every surface area is smudged with fingerprints.

by Contributor at Citysearch

Overview
Bright, colorful and crowded, the museum keeps an eye out for a kid's best interest. It's divided into different sections: How it Works, which lets kids experiment with tools, materials and their own endless energy; Feeling Good Neighborhood, featuring a functioning apple orchard and a monster-sized digestive system; Our Great Outdoors, possibly the only cave that's not off-limits to kids and the Art Studio where the paint gets on someone else's walls for a change.

The Appeal
Not only does the atmosphere encourage plenty of child/parent interaction, it also offers parents a quick respite from the action when it becomes exhausting. Check out the benches beside the Great Outdoors area, or slip into Little CMOR, which caters to the youngest visitors to the museum.