MY Museum

This could be such a great place! The staff is extremely friendly and the concepts of the exhibitions are solid. However, all the costumes for the stage area are filthy and tattered. The puppets/​stuffed animals in the treehouse/​Day at the Beach area are matted and dirty. There are no felt veggies left in the pretend farmers field, only a few wooden pieces that remove from the ground, as most are missing. The toy food in the play restaurant is filthy. The area in the back with the school house and fire truck is dimly lit.
We purchased an annual family membership one year ago. The facility seemed to be in slightly better condition then. We thought the broken/​worn down things got routinely cleaned, updated, and replaced. However, things are just in worse condition. It’s a shame because the children enjoy it, but for the parents paying, it isn’t worth it. Unfortunately, we won’t be renewing our membership.

I invited a friend in the area to the well reviewed and highly recommended My Museum (MY). We decided to visit on May 4 with our 17-​month and her 10-​month old. We knew MY had one Exhibit for their age and the other Exhibits were for older kids.
We arrived early and at 10:15 we were already playing with our little ones in My Day at Beach. To our surprise, it had only passed just a couple of minutes since MY’s opening time and the area looked so dirty that it seemed no one clean it the previous day or weeks. The area looked depressing, there is a lack of windows and poor lightning. The exhibits and «toys» were so worn, dirty and old. We stated it was our first time in MY, but the lady at the counter wasn’t too informative about the facility and things available for us to do. It didn’t seemed there was adequate supervision throughout since the older kids were running rampid and cutting in lines without no one stopping them. People eating and drinking in the play area. No one from the staff was enforcing the rules, like the «No Shoes». Multiple parents and kids were allowed to use shoes.
Finally we didn’t received a ticket or receipt for later re-​entry? Weird!
I was so mad and disappointed because I did my research previous the visit and all the reviews were good. I was expecting to enjoy MY with my friend and kids. The only good thing from the whole experience was KinderJam with Ms. Sarah.

This COULD be an awesome place, as most of the reviews suggest, however we did not have such a positive experience when we brought our 26 month old son here today. Much of the museum was in disrepair and did not work at all. The bathrooms smelled like a carpeted room of cats had been locked up in solitary for a year. Lastly, all of the plush animals that were scattered throughout the museum were dingy, old, and looked as if they’d been played with by children for ages without ever being replaced.
We went here with high recommendations, and high hopes, though were quite disappointed with this place. We will probably not be back unless at least some slight improvements are made.

We absolutely LOVED My Museum! We have a 4 year old and a 2 year old… they could have played all day. They really have thought of everything! We will definitely return!

This place is truly the all-​ages (under 9) kid discovery center that so many others pretend to be. I just love the art area which is totally open-​ended — no project of the day. Make what you feel like. YES! This time at our annual visit, my now 7 & 5 yos spent FIVE HOURS there, a new record. Don’t change a thing, MY Museum… except maybe add a few benches with backs for aging parents and nursing moms!

We came here for the first time today, we are from out of town. FUN museum for the kiddos! The only reason I give it 4 stars is bc of the size. Not a huge place but tons of stuff to do! They have a section for Hospital play, EMT, Fire Dept, Theatre, House play, Farm Section, Putt Putt Golf, TreeHouse, Build a House, Arts & Craft, Sailing Section. My two year old loved it! Nice & CLEAN! I’m huge on cleanliness when it comes to kid places! Staff was VERY friendly & really interact with the kiddos! Price is very reasonable: $ 8 for adults, $ 8 for children, Kids Under 2 FREE. Definitely would recommend this place & come back when we are in town again!

With all the rain we’ve had lately, I’ve had a great time taking my grandkids here. They are 4 and 9 and both of them find plenty to entertain themselves with.
The exhibits are surprisingly high quality, similar level to the San Jose children’s museum.
Definitely check this place out if you’re in town and want to let the kids run themselves out while playing with well designed exhibits. I have plenty of fun when we go there too!

We had such a good time with a 1.5 and 6 year old. Most activities are for all ages. I can’t say there was a favorite activity, they seemed to enjoy everything. The new air based activities with bottle rockets and balancing balls was pretty amusing, even for the adults.
As an adult, I really enjoyed watching the boys play with the building house and tools, the arts and crafts section and the huge operation board.
Great price for an hour and a half of fun.

Great place for children.
My son loves to go there.
He loves to driving the ambulance :)
It’s a real size car.

My Museum is not a really a «museum» per se — it’s more of a play space with an educational theme. The staff are nice but pretty young and seem to just be there keeping the place tidy and staffing the front. There are various play areas that are interesting enough for little ones, including a big air tube that you can place fabric/​poms into and watch fly out.
My kids are just about turning 2, and had fun. However, there are a lot of older kids going a little nuts so my wife and I had to do a lot of work just hovering over them making sure they didn’t get trampled. There is a space for children under 3 but no one seems to read the sign and follow that rule… so even in that space they were getting trampled.
MY Museum could get 5 stars if they increased their staff and had some more experienced people working and managing the space. Go here if you’re in the area and are tired of going to parks or the beach for some reason.

Small but fits in a ton of stuff. Great for a toddler. I think they have scheduled events like kinder jam etc. I wouldn’t necessarily bring kids here 3^rd grade or above. I’m glad our family started going here on a regular basis. We have fun. All you need is an hour sometimes. I like the unique gifts in the front so even if u decided not to go into the museum area you could still come in to purchase a cool puppet or book.

Cool place to take kids. This place is definitely a lot more interactive than going to one of those jungle gym type indoor places but they do have some climbing and play structures like bridges and slides.
What makes this place shine is that it really is an interactive play and learning center. There are different exhibits that are completely hands on and have actions that can be done for play or with purpose. For example, there is an actual stage complete with a big dressing room full of costumes. Our favorite part was probably the place near the play kitchen where you can put large pompom balls or scarves into an air tube and they come flying out the top into a non next to you. The second favorite was the creativity station where you can build our own arts and crafts from all sorts of recycled materials. Seeing what the kids came up with was fantastic.
The major down side is the busyness of the place. When we arrived on a Sunday afternoon there were two kids birthday parties going on at the same time and it was kind of like walking int a circus full of screaming children. Once the parties settled down and families left it was easier to not feel so overwhelmed and crowded. Seems like a busy place but mainly during birthday parties because the non-​party weekend crowd was very manageable.

My 2 year old daughter loves MyMuseum! Highlights: their fun events around the holidays, the tots area (a sanctuary from big kids on busy days), and their awesome staff, who always make us feel welcome.

Amazing place for young to pre-​teen kids. Tons of hands on activities and attractions to experience. Our daughter had a ball at this place and we had to take her away kicking and screaming. The place is clean and well run. Don’t think twice, this is a good place to take you kids.

A good place for the kids to burn off some energy. My daughter is almost 2 and she loves this place. It is smaller than most that we have been to, but is adequate and makes it easier to keep track of where the kids are! Lots of equipment to run and play on as well as interact with. A pretend ambulance that has lights and sirens, a treehouse, a kitchen with play food, etc. definitely worth the stop.

This could have been good, this place is centrally located to downtown restaurants and shops, parking is easy, and the place itself is cute. I wanted to have fun. The employees were friendly, albeit young, ergo the shenanigans that ensued.
1– my daughter is almost 2, so perhaps this simply isn’t a toddler friendly environment. Most of the kids were big, and essentially steamrolled my tiny girl. Like literally, they’d mow her over, yell at her, and rip things from her hands.
2– they have an area that is designated for children under 3. Yet, clearly this was not regulated because a large boy, probably 7-​ish was in there hurling plastic beige covered foam cubes around, and then throwing himself onto them. The tiny children near him were actually being ricocheted off the surface and bailing into walls.
3– they have a contraption that makes a giant bubble tube. A pig nosed little troll kid was yanking it roughly, creating a trebuchet like weapon. He slammed my tiny girl in the face with it. She fell over, cried, and her nose bled. The staff did not seem concerned with this, his troglodyte parents just stood there. They didn’t apologize, they didn’t rebuke him, they just stood there with their giant foreheads being mute & overwhelmed with complex thought. Her nose was bleeding people. And yet nothing was said or done to rectify what was basically a violent assault.
4– at this point I’m already over it. But my friend and her child, who was already covered in weird gray muck from having sat on something, weren’t quite done.
5– I tell myself, this is life, these are lessons for my baby to learn. Let’s just make the best of it and get our $ 8 worth of «educational» adventure.
6– so my daughter keeps running back and forth, whereupon I realize, the front door is giant and unguarded. The doors are tinted on the outside, so a person can & inevitably will open the giant doors, not knowing that a fragile kid body is standing next to it. Also, when they open the door, they’d create a large opening for kids to run through and into oncoming traffic. Theoretically, a smart idea, would be to have a gate that prevents kids from leaving the play area in order to avoid either tragedy. But there is no gate. There is no safety buffer. Just a lobby, with no precautions, and 2 giant doors, not being watched.
So in the end, I paid good money & an hour of my time, to have my daughter attacked with a bubble wand by a mean kid, with jerk parents, be trampled by larger kids, and then endure heartbreaking moments of being nervous & scared while she stood near big doors that would have either eventually smacked her or lent her a gateway to being hit by oncoming traffic. The staff consisted of a gaggle of polite young girls who seemed way too preoccupied with the craft corner. I get it, you are 19, putting glitter on stuff is super important. That being said, put up some fences, set some rules, if you want to be a kid place, then actually be kid friendly. Or at least hand out tiny helmets upon entry.

Weirdly literal simulacrum of a small town main street (sort of). Poorly designed from a kid’s point of view. Windowless and depressing. And there’s no reason for them to use the word «museum» in their name. It’s nothing more than a play space, and one that wasn’t thought out very well.
On a sunny day, Monterey’s best affordable play space is the Dennis the Menace Park.

$ 8 per person. Lots of stuff to do though it doesn’t look that big. It is very well designed and workers (?) also played with kids. Spent 3hrs there and my kid didn’t want to leave.
Tree house, doctor’s office, mini-​mini golf range, fire truck, ambulance, boat, little play house, little shop/​restaurant, and even a stage.

Great facility for kids 0 – 12. My 9 month old had a great time crawling around in the youngsters play area and my 9 year old niece enjoyed the arts and crafts room fully stocked with craft supplies, hot glue guns and a project helper (staff member). Staff was friendly and assured us everything was wiped down twice a day to keep things clean. Plenty of room to run, climb and be loud… if you need the kids to sleep good that night… take them.

got invited to go play here by my neighbor for one of their kid’s birthday party. The party was 2 hours long. My 18 month old loved the mini golf area and i saw her light up when she saw all the costumes to dress up in. She also loved the restaurant section but it seemed like everyone and their mother was around that play area so we took her to a less crowded area. I wish she was old enough for the craft area (i think it said ages 4 and up) cause there were some really neat craft tables.
It’s only $ 7 per person so if i was in the area with a bunch of kids and had nothing to do… i wouldn’t mind letting them spend several hours there.