Children’s Museum In Snohomish County

This place is pretty awesome. I enjoy taking my son there to run around and explore. However, I really don’t enjoy the fact that I have to pay entry for myself as well, seeing as I just sit and watch him play. This makes it really expensive for our family, so we will probably only go a few times a year.

$ 9.50 for kids and their adult supervision… That’s nearly $ 50 for my family of 4. This is steeeep. All the parking surrounding is 90minute parking, so hopefully you didn’t plan to stay more than 1.5 hours. There is parking in back starting around $ 3 for a couple hours and increasing from there. Who would have imagined pay parking in Everett! Sorry imagine, you’re too expensive… We’d rather go to Seattle or Bellevue for these prices!
My suggestion: don’t charge an adult entry fee. Or make child entry $ 13.50 and adults free. We are just there to supervise.

The place is fun in theory. The rooftop is always closed if there is a sign of drizzle. The play areas do not tie in together. the bus and plane have no sounds. There is a lot to like about the museum and a lot of room for improvement. We had a very expensive birthday party there the kids had fun but the cost was not worth it. I will be taking my children again, just would like to see some improvements made :)

My nephew, his wife and two little girls, aged 5 and 9 had so much fun at this place they are coming back again in a few months — all the way from Yakima, WA. What a welcome play area for the day after Thanksgiving — thank goodness they were open and even though it was raining, the girls absolutely loved their visit and so did their parents!

After circling the Children’s Museum and surrounding area about five times, we finally find parking. The seven year-​old boy I nanny for, who for the sake of this story we will call Jake. Jake jumped out of the car and was über excited to go to the museum. About 25 minutes into his playtime they made an announcement that the museum would be closing in five minutes, «please clean up and gather your belongings». Next thing you know I am dragging Jake out the door and trying to explain why we can’t just hide-​out inside the museum until the museum employee’s leave
The museum in theory is a great learning experience. Unfortunately, it has some major drawbacks:
1. The hours are completely insane. It is closed Monday’s and most school holidays (I guess children don’t like to play on Monday’s and on no school days). They close at 4:30 half of the week, which makes it hard for school age kids to get anytime to enjoy this museum.
2. The museum has a great outdoor rooftop play area! It’s great but closed at the sign of even the slightest drizzle. This is Washington! If it has to close for rain, why not build a cover? Otherwise, this playground will be unused for about nine months out of the year.
3. The Museum is designed with intentions on learning and fostering imaginative play. Unfortunately, imaginative play is important and there are many different levels, they didn’t think of tying multiple different pretend play opportunities together. There is a produce area with a scale but it stops there, no cash register or store, there is no area to play «house» or dolls or even dress up clothes. The mock airplane is cool but no lights or sounds, the kids lose interest quickly because it doesn’t do anything and they can’t do anything hands-​on with it.
4. There is an art area and they have art type classes, but they charge an additional fee (and not a small one I might add). They also charge an entry fee for each child and adult coming to the center. The pass is expensive if you want more than one adult to be able to take a child or have more than one child.
5. The absolute biggest mistake (actually, it was a well thought-​out marketing plan) is when leaving the ONLY exit you can leave through is through there gift shop which is loaded with toys and candy, no matter how fast you try to rush through every kid is saying «can I get…»
I still recomend this place, but I hope they make some improvements.