Mountain Top Children’s Museum

This is much more a play place then a museum. There are a lot of hands on activities for the kids. Many of them seem to be science based, like the wonder lab. Lots of arts and crafts to be done and dress up play awaits. They do sell a small amount of snacks and drinks. Overall, it filled out time in well while daddy and big sis went skiing.

We were visiting for the weekend and looking for activities to do with our 18 month and 3 year old boys. This was very close to our lodging, so we planned a visit (open Fri-​to Mon). As other reviewers mentioned, not a museum as much as an play center specific to certain ideas (?), i.e. dress-​up station, medical corner, fishing bridge, science lab. However, it was perfect for us! We knew stuff they would exactly love like home (trains, puzzles) and stuff we hadn’t tried out before (the bean bucket, magnet tiles).
The admission also includes adults, which we thought was a little steep. However, this is a non-​profit and between proximity to our hotel and the sobbing when we left, small price to pay for a good time. There were also older kids there who were very familiar with the place, maybe too familiar.

I am glad we did not listen to the reviews here because this place is wonderful if you are traveling with kids. Sure, it isn’t as large as some other children’s museums but there is plenty to do. We took my 3 & 4 year olds today and I had to drag them away after 2.5 hours because I wanted lunch. The kids would have stayed all day and found plenty to do.
For those who say it isn’t a museum just an interactive play area, I recommend looking into what a children’s museum is — it is an interactive play area set up for kids to learn through play. That is exactly what happens here. There is a doctors office, a dress up area, a bear cave, a construction zone, marble runs, a lab for experimenting, art supplies and more. And for those stuck on the idea of a «museum» there are skulls and antlers to feel with info about the animals and other more museumy type things.
But the main idea is learning through play and this is a great space for that.
The staff was very friendly while we were there even willing to give me a local opinion about a couple kid activities.
We have been to many many kids museums (Boston, Denver, Saratoga Springs NY, Poughkeepsie NY, Holoyoke MA, and more) and found this museum small but quality.
I had no problem playing $ 24 for our family of four to spend over 2 hours playing.

Great

Not worth the money. We were pretty disappointed in this place. We’ve been to better «children’s museums» that had more for the kids to do and cost less than this place. $ 7 for each kid and $ 5 each adult. Crazy expensive for what it was. We paid $ 24 for about an hour of play. Nah. Pass on this one.

Meh… like other reviewers I also found the staff to be unfriendly and not helpful. I wouldn’t go back because of them. I had to pay $ 5 to stand around and clean up after my child, which to me is ridiculous.
The kids had fun, but they are 2. They wouldld have fun with a cardboard box.

A lovely little place to let kids play creatively and chill out. We met up here with old friends; the kids could move from the art station to dress-​up to construction while we trailed behind, lightly supervising.
Our kids were 3.5, 1.5, 0.5. All did fine. We saw kids up through about nine fitting in well.

Agreed — more of a play area than a museum. This place was so much work keeping my kids in line that they should have paid ME my $ 5 entrance fee. Seriously, to make adults pay is just ridiculous. And why was it so hard to keep my kids in line? First, there are choking hazards everywhere. My 18 month old was at risk here. Marbles, pinto beans, small toys, small craft supplies, etc… Then there are some really neat boxes of materials that need to be kept in the box and the things around it need to be kept out — sand in one, snow in another, pinto beans in another. Hard for a 3 year old sometimes to grasp these rules. Oh, and pinto beans in the baby area mind you. So your kid spills them all over and you better clean them up or tiny babies are going to eat them! Frustrating! And the most frustrating thing of all is the setup in the middle of toys to buy. For an 18 month old, they just don’t understand which toys you can play with and which are for sale. I hate it when places set you up to make purchases like that (which we did not). So for older kids, sure, this is a pricey but good place to go as there aren’t a lot of other options like this. For the smaller kids that don’t understand rules yet or for those you still have to worry about putting everything in their mouth, this just isn’t the place as much as I wanted it to be.

Although my kids enjoyed it, I agree with the other reviewers, this wasn’t a museum but a play area… but the worst part was the lady managing the front who was not pleasant at all; in fact I would call her rude! She didn’t do anything but look at her computer and tell us what we should be doing, such as that the adults were expected to clean up after our child (ren). Then she then took a table out from under us while were playing with the marble run; so she could turn it over and sand it (huh?). I don’t get why the lady works at a kids place if she doesn’t care to be involved at all or even moreso why the owner has people like that managing the business (I sure hope she wasn’t the owner!!). To top it off it cost us $ 7 per kid AND $ 5 PER ADULT!

I, as an adult, not only has to pay for my children’s entry, but I also have to pay to watch my own kids!!! That’s a little bit messed up if you ask me, for something which is an over glorified day care set up (without the «care»).
We have however, gone to the museum about once or twice a year over the last 5 years, as my kids do enjoy going there and it’s better than sitting at the house watching TV when the weather is poor.
On more occasions than not, the front desk staff has been quite unfriendly and rude (as a previous poster also mentioned).
On our last visit, I told my kids we will not be coming back, not only are they getting older, but it’s just not worth it.

Overall, this is a fun place for the kids. It is not really a museum, but is rather an interactive kids play center. It is a big pricy, since they charge for both adults and children, unlike most play areas like this.
That said, my daughter loves it there and wants to go back time after time. They have a science center, where they can play with lights, weights and water with dye. They have another dress up area, a play center with puppets, craft area and trains area.
The only downside (other than price) was the extreme rudeness of the guy working the front desk. Granted, he might have been high instead of rude, but it certainly came across as rudeness. I would have been very upset if I were the owner and saw how he treated the people who came in.

We took our almost-​2-​year-​old to this wonderful little place and she thoroughly enjoyed it. I would describe this museum as more of an interactive children’s educational play center, and tons of fun for kids. Probably best for toddlers through early grade school ages. (18 months to 6 or 7 years old says my wife.)
The museum is laid out in different sections. The ones I remember are a construction zone with things like a really cool constructor set, train sets, marble roller coaster things (not sure what to call those). They also had an arts/​crafts zone, a «bear cave», a water/​snow table, a «wonder lab» (basically a small room of simple science experiments), and a «studio imagination» where kids could dress up in costumes like they’re part of a studio production, some medical stuff, a toddler play area (our toddler couldn’t have cared less about that zone), and of course an animal exhibit. My descriptions may not be doing this place justice, so be sure to check out their web site for yourself.
My only complaint with the place is that they charge for both adults and children, and would have preferred they just charge per child. Prices weren’t terrible, $ 7 per kid and $ 5 per adult, but paying a total of $ 17 did feel a little steep to spend an hour or so playing with our toddler, since we’ve been to other places that cost us less than half of that. It is a mountain resort town, though, and higher costs should be expected.
Cost not withstanding, it really is a great place to take your kids, so check it out if you’re looking for something fun to do with your kids in downtown Breckenridge for an hour or so.