It is such a fun and unique place to take your children. Theyre always changing things in there to keep the kids Happy and busy. They have activities for the kids and it is wonderful when the weather is cold out and you need a place for them to run off some energy. We have been going for almost four years.

This is a fairly small childrens museum with play area on two levels. There are many toys and exhibits to play with featuring local culture. Museum is orderly with friendly staff. There is a gift shop attached. Food is allowed but only on the first level. Large clean family restrooms. Exhibits are mostly design for ages 5 and younger. Good parking in two adjacent parking lots and on Street. $9 per person admission. Good place to spend a rainy afternoon.

Love taking my kids here, theyre on top of cleaning as well with covid going on, great for exploring and learning

The grand rapids childrens museum is bigger but this was nice. Just not much for 9.00 a person. Would have rather went to the aquarium.

A great place to take a toddler full of energy! Great way to imagine play and fine and gross motor skills!!

Might not be very large but its alot of fun even for us kids at heart!!

Pretty small compared to the one in the cities that we are used to. I have a 5, two 8 and a 10 year old and surprisingly they kept busy for a couple hours. It turned out to be a great time filler. I felt the price was a little high for what they offer and can only hope they will expand in the near future.

Nice place to take young kids, especially in winter. The indoor treehouse/jungle gym is a good alternative to a snowy, slippery, cold playground. The museum is a little small, but that makes it easier to keep track of little ones. They offer hands-on activities throughout the day and have lots of random things to spark imaginative play, explore and climb.

Lots of fun for younger busy kids.

My grandchildren have been going to the childrens museum for 8 yrs. We love it and that is the place they always ask to go. The staff is friendly and also show them how to use the equipment. They have different areas and also change things up. We go every month. This is our time to play together, they do skits for me at the theater, we play bank, love to make things at the magnet table and so much more. This is a great place, but you need to play with your children and help them use their imagination there.

Second time around. Still great.

Weve been here several times on our Duluth trips. Its small if youre used to big city museums but its so much fun. The kids have a blast every time.

All kinds of activities and educational toys for kids. We could have spent the whole day there! They especially enjoyed the ore boat display and the little kitchen up stairs. Our one year old enjoyed the activity wall and crawling around under the ore boat display.

There are always new things to see and do when we go to the Childrens Museum. The kids always have a great time! Memberships are available, with awesome perks! I reccomend this to every parent to look into for their kids. Open your minds to discovery through play. Prices are reasonable, location is great, and staff are so nice and helpful!

We were given a year membership and the kids loved this place. I did not believe when google said that average time spent is 2 hours . After the first trip definitely understand why. Place is amazing would definitely say go

The kids had a blast. They had the downstairs closed because they were changing the exhibit so were looking forward to returning!

Such a nice atmosphere in this place. They really put a lot of time into the artwork surrounding each exhibit. Beautiful artwork! Very colorful fun vibrant place! More exhibits on 2nd floor than first. Our kids loved it and asked if they could go back! If you forget snacks like we did, the gift shop has reasonable priced kid friendly snacks you can buy.

It will keep your kid busy for hours

So many activities to do with kids! They have a small baby young toddler area, a huge ship, an airplane, a pedal sailboat, magnet maze wall, wigwam, stage filled with dress up stuff, kitchen, garden, full size play structure and more!

I thought it was a cute and fun little place for the kids. it is small. but theres still stuff to do. kids had a lot of fun checking everything out. and the kids spent a good chunk of time with the costumes and dress up on the stage

For the Price it was Fun for My Daughter

Excellent museum. Clean, organized and tons of fun activities for the kiddos. Love the way you can watch ships come in from the upper level. And the staff there are amazing. A staff member saw my son was interested in this and spent 30 minutes with him. He taught him all about the ships and where they come from and how to look up their routes and so on. my son was absolutely thrilled. We will definitely be going again!

Ok small childrens museum. Staff was friendly. Everything was clean and the kids had fun. Its just not very big and only takes about an hour and a half to explore everything.

Love this place! Super fun stuff, and about 50% has changed since the last time I was there (a couple years ago) so it was like bringing my kids to a whole new place! The kids had a blast.

Great place for the kids to play & learn. Staff is friendly & helpful.

We spend hours here each time we visit!!!

I take my 2 children (6) (3 1/2) here all the time. They love it and so do I. Great staff. Awesome activities and new exhibits all the time. If you havent been there yet, what are you waiting for?

This is perfect for little children. My year old granddaughter loves the padded area with uneven walking options. She is exploring walking, and this is wonderful for her development. She also enjoyed watching the wind tube blow things up and out the top.

They have definitely upped their game in the last year when it comes to preschool and grade school aged children.

Grace had her Birthday Party here and it was great. Loved it.

Great place for littles to do stuff. Geared more towards 3 and under. Coming from south florida....this museum was definitely small. But both my 5 and 2 year old sons had fun.

Good for little kids (0-7) Lots to play with if mom and dad need a break in activities. We only lasted an hour or so and the our kids got hungry and we left.

This is a great place for families to hang out and spend time together. Ive been there 3 times in my life and every time I came back, there was always something new and exciting. I highly recommend this place to families looking for something fun to do.

Awesome employees! Awesome play areas!!! I brought my 4 and 5 year old class there just to play... they lasted 3 hours and could have gone longer!! Love it!

More of a kids adventure/play area than a “museum” ... I was actually disappointed when we entered. Didn’t know where to park or walk in at first because the building didn’t have any signs except in small print on the actual door. Spent about a little over an hour with a 22 mo old and almost 4 year old. I would say they both had fun running around and playing while daddy and mommy watched and helped with imaginary play. Definitely not worth the $27, unless it was a rainy day and spent more time there. Would be more fun if the kids were older and could attend the activities that were planned for the day. The staff was very nice and were helpful and easily accessible.

Good place for kids...

Not a very big place but its great if you have small children. Lots for them to see and play with. They will definitely be entertained for a long time.

Every childrens museum in every town is just enough bacon size to cover that town. Same applies to the childrens museum in Duluth. Its good to spend a couple of hours there.

We visited on a Saturday afternoon and it was not really busy at all. The staff was courteous and respectful. There are two floors of activities though the first floor does not have much to offer compared to the second floor. The exhibits themselves do not seem to have a big rhyme or reason why they are there. Every exhibit is standalone and does not coincide with any overall theme. The price of $9 for adults and kids is steep for what they have to offer and how long you can be there before you have seen everything. If they upped the quality of activities or lowered the price it would make it a better experience.

This place is amazing! My daughter got to squeak in for free because we went the day before her second birthday, it was WELL worth it and I cant wait to bring her back!

We had a great time visiting! It was a rainy, cold summer day and decided to go to the childrens museum on a whim. They offered a 100% military discount ( through labor day 2018 I believe), which is great especially since admission is only $9 to begin with! The exhibits were awesome, interactive and informative. We loved it!

Perfect place to take my 3 year old twins. We have an annual pass which is great value!

Nice small museum for kids to explore and enjoy for a few hours. I was expecting to be much bigger. My kids really enjoy the upper floor with slides and imaginary playhouses.

We just visited the museum and had a great time! Our 11 year old loved the exhibit downstairs as well as the activities upstairs. The staff was very friendly and we especially appreciated the help and attention of one staff member, I believe his name was Dan. He took the time to help our son figure out how to do the activities and was very helpful. Thank you so the fun time!

Great place for a family fun day!! Kids had a great time. Sage and secure fun space for the family. Highly recommend checking it out.

I brought my friends 4 year old here and he had a blast! He played the drums and ran around the upstairs and played with the magnetic wall. I could see his brain working out ways to position the tubes to made the ball go all the way down! I love this place!

Great place my son loves it.

My kid had fun playing with all the old time items and learning about them

Great staff, the kids love this place.

Wonderful place for families to spend a cold afternoon in winter. 2 levels of fun that will keep your kids entertained for hours. If you live in the area, definitely get a year pass for the family. It will give you huge savings over paying each time, plus you get discounts at other area attractions, such as 50% off admission at the Great Lakes Aquarium.

Lots of interesting activities for about ages 1-10. Clean and well staffed.

2 floors. First floors pretty much for real young kids. We had our four-year-old granddaughter. 2nd floor was good with a lot for her to do until a birthday party of about 15 to 20 kids came upstairs and that amount of kids along with the 15 to 20 that were already there just made it a total zoo.

Not impress got turned away at the door and had to leave!!!!!!!!!

Great place to bring my Early Head Start kids. We booked a field trip with Drew and the reserved us the celebration room. The kids had a wonderful time and the staff were so great! Will definitely do more field trips here in the future!

Took my 4 year old granddaughter and I couldnt keep up. Was 1/2 off due to new experience opening next week

Multi-year family members, Im afraid our time of visiting here may soon end as the kids outgrow the targeted age range. Just the right mix of fresh attractions and programs, the childrens museum has been a go-to for me and the kids, especially on days when getting out in he weather is not so appealing.

Excellent place to play! Great for kids of all ages.

Always something fun and interesting to do for kids especially on a rainy day!

Staff was very helpful and friendly. Floor are all padded upstairs which is for the young one. Lots of different activities for all ages

Its fun bringing the kids there but I dread leaving its always a tantrum lol even If we spent three four hours. The kids get stuck like glue.

Great place for kids. They can make blanket forts downstairs and drive a boat upstairs. What a great place for kids

Cool fun stuff for the kids.

Great place for kids of all ages!

A night at the brewseum, craft beer and hard cider, distilled spirits and live music. Informative and fun!

I have been an active member for 1+ years and I absolutely love the museum. My two kids (1 and 4 years old) have a routine of going every Friday to hang out with old friends and make new ones. With our membership it is so easy to check in and the staff there are very friendly and have gotten to recognize us by name. Every week there is something new to explore and learn along with the familiar things. My daughter loves dressing up and playing in the giant shoe, while my son loves dancing on the stage and climbing aboard the boat-mobile.This is one of only a few places that I feel comfortable and safe to let my kids go and play on their own, create crafts to show me, and meet fun and interesting people.

Great place to take kiddos of all ages!

This is a great place to entertain the younger kids on the weekend or during the winter. They have dozens of interactive exhibits for them to play with and they usually have something new set up every time we go. The only downside is that it can get really crowded, loud and overwhelming on a busy day because of the limited space to roam around.

Lovely place for the kids and Customer service is always great

Wasn’t bad. Wouldn’t go here more then once or twice

We brought our 2.5yo and she had a fun time on the second floor. Plenty of activities to keep her busy for about an hour and a half. Employees were great. Constantly walking around and tidying up each play area.The first floor seemed like activities that older children might enjoy more.Overall it was worth the $9 for my daughter, but paying $9 for me then my wife seemed a little silly since we were not getting much out of the experience. Maybe just raise the price for kids and let parents go free?

Great museum. Small- not overwhelming for kids. Easy to supervise a toddler and an older child at same time.

We love spending the day here!! Our 9 year old daughter and 15 month old son enjoy the many activities they have for them! This is good place to let them run off some energy during the long winter months.

I liked the space for my almost three year old - lots of activities for a rainy day. Second floor was overly congested to the point of not being safe. No safe space for kids under three to play though and NOT breastfeeding friendly for the baby or for keeping track of one child while feeding the little one. Im glad I have extra family with that could keep track of my older child while I paid admission to spend my time in the parking lot in the car. It was that or a bathroom stall.Update: In response to the owner/responder - I did speak to two staff members one on the first floor and one at the main desk and both stated they had no suggestions or options for a private space/space away from main play areas. Even a few benches off to the side or in a hallway somewhere away from play spaces would have been helpful.

The money it cost to view the museum is not worth it! When we went the service was unfriendly, the exhibits were all broken, and the shows they were offering never happened. I thought from the website I was visiting a very cool place for my kids to explore but getting here it was a HUGE disappointment. Letting my kids play in my own classroom at school would have been more entertaining and interactive! I really want to go back to the front desk and ask for my money back!

They just put up a exhibit that is geared toward building a fort in a living room. Pretty awesome!

My 1.5 yo and 4 year old had a blast they have so many activities

It was okay. We stopped here to let our 5-year-old burn off some energy before the drive back to the Cities. She had fun, but was done after 90 minutes. The fossil pit and magnet board were her favorites. The dramatic play area was really cool, but crowded. Lots of unsupervised children running astounds. More gallery attendants would have helped.

This was a nice place to take our young one during our trip to Duluth. Very child friendly. I would call it less a museum and more of a indoor park with a huge selection of fun interactive toys. They also have huge a huge ship shaped play area and a stage for kids to put on plays.

Didnt seem like there was a lot to do for kids aged 8-9. We thought there would be more for them to do. We were in and out pretty quick because the kids got bored.

My wife and I took our 2 year old here. I wouldnt suggest it as there was minimal staff, unsupervised children and very little for a young kid to do. Also cost $9/adult. We went to Adventure Zone afterward and our son had more fun there.

The staff are so great about changing up the play areas and awesome activities for the kids! I bring my kids here all winter, and we almost never get sick! (which with kids, you know, is unheard of) The social environment of kids playing and having fun really helped my daughter to come out of her shell, too! we joke that it is our second home.

I really liked the variety of activities they had available. A huge pit of lentils to dig and find fossils, over sized connect 4, checkers, and jenga game. Small table with books and board games. Upstairs you will see a shoe house, a theater with costumes, another old fashioned kitchen area, stationary car to climb into and pedal/steer, wooden train table, craft tables where you can glue, cut, and paint. There are tables with various types of puzzles, large wall of magnet tubes to create your own maze, and magnet display using your own hands on aluminum/copper plates to create your own electric current. If you have a membership at another childrens museum, you get 50% off. Our whole family visited for about $13, totally worth it for all they had to offer. Its nothing like the St Paul Childrens Museum, but totally worth it when the wind chill is 30 below!

Great for kids. Lots to do

Love this place!!! A cardboard maze, slides, a mini theatre that lets the children dress up and play on stage..and much much more. Its awesome

No really that much to do and also only 1 employee working at the time. The stage with all the costumes stunk and looked like they were pulled from the garbage. Its tough to compare Duluth and the cities childrens museum but it was a huge disappointment.

Great little stop for young kids on a rainy day! We had a rainy vacation and found this amazing little spot. Our girls are ages 2 & 5, they loved it!!!

Not worth the $9 per person! Its a rip off. The place smelled like people used to smoke cigs in it for years. Everything was dirty & messy. Other kids were out of control. They hoarded the golf balls, shoved other kids (including mine to get a ball that he was playing with), & ran around too fast. It is way too small for big kids running when theres a bunch of toddlers & babies. I wish we read the reviews before wasting our money there. Very disappointed! I want my $27 back.

Given the size of Duluth this is really a very good Museum its great for kids as young as a year-and-a-half and all the way up through the end of adolescence.

We moved here in summer 2017. We come from a city that has a moderate sized childrens museum which is very active and has a good balance between museum-ishness and indoor play area. Lets start off with the good about the DCM. The museum is small and cozy in a way being in a small building with two floors. Members do get half off discounts to the Zoo and Aquarium, a very nice offer. Staff is friendly enough.I fear however that weve been spoiled from other museums as weve had access to several other museums that were (admittedly larger), with more options (for more ages), more engaging and with a better layout. The DCM just feels.....unloved for lack of a better word.Some areas to improve....the lower exhibit changes only three times a year. It takes a child about an hour or less to see the changed exhibits which means if you have a year long membership, theyve seen everything there is to see in that short amount of time and theres no reason to use half of the museum again.The upstairs exhibits have only changed slightly since we first started and the primary exhibits have some issues....Theres an Ojibwe exhibit, a nod to Native local traditions (sounds very educational-ish), but kids never really played there (an ignored area = wasted space) as its just a hut and a video screen showing Natives picking/washing wild rice. And that same exhibit has been there for two years....TWO years. Theres a bank teller exhibit that has nothing there except some coins locked down to the exhibit. Kids spend zero time here because theres nothing to do. The movie theater exhibit has costumes and kids can dress up (many of the costumes have seen better days). The theater is cute, but it does use a lot of the little space that exists. There are glass display boxes holding some museum-ish trinkets inside of them that nobody looks and frankly get in the way of toddlers running around at mach 7.The DCM could be really amazing. Maybe the museum designation isnt appropriate because its very hard to be museum-ish with such a small footprint. Its hard to be all things to all people, that I understand. For the 1st floor, heres my idea.....What might be of value to the community in such a cold climate is a very well designed (permanent) indoor play structure area similar to a Perch and Play indoor cafe / playground (we went there in Bellingham, WA on many rainy days) that parents could monitor their kids while the kiddies expend energy. If it was well designed, it would be a very wise use of the lower space. Parents could monitor and talk to each other and kids could burn off calories in a place where they were looked after and safe. Maybe parents could even sip a latte? Make it a place parents WANT to be (and socialize with each other while watching). The upstairs could benefit from some changes (remove glass exhibits of things, get rid of dead exhibits kids dont use or maybe change them up more) and keep using the good exhibits that are working well up there. Also, install an Imagination Playstation area (google it, very cool)!!!! because thats a very creative way for kids to interact and build things together and its so SIMPLE....just designate an area and kids will really build/design whatever you can imagine (very museum-ish). There is a very strong need in the Twin Ports for something like this that meets the needs of families to have a gathering place as well as a warm indoor gym that helps kids and families come together. Whether that is a Childrens Musuem or Indoor Gym or a combination of the two, I dont know but I do know that if there was a fundraiser to change up the DCM, I would be the first to donate.

My baby had so much fun

The grandkids had Great time in the new Monkey room.

Great place to take the kids. Birthday party also. My grandchildren really enjoy going there

Great fun and activities for even a one year old. Lots of variety and interesting stuff.

Great for young children

Its ok. More of a play place for kids. Kids had fun but its not a big time place youd compare to other museums. Kept them busy for a couple hours.

My son loves it here. We try going every Friday with friends. Its especially great cause the kids can wear off energy while the adults visit.

Great place for kids party

A nice place to let your little ones run around.

We took our two and a half year old here this past weekend and she seemed to enjoy herself.The second floor is filled withactivities that pretty much any age of young kids should like. There was a magnetic wall with tracks and tubes to make a party to run balls down, there were a couple of air related activities so kids could float balls or send foam bits flying up a chute, there was a Native American exhibit that was running videos about different aspects of maybe cultures, a play theater with costumes for pretend and putting on shows, a big ore boat replica to play on/in that has a slide and Im sure Im forgetting some things.My kid was most interested in the little steps you could go up and down, the wooden blocks, the magnet table with washers and nuts you can build up, and the track area with cars and bridges to rearrange and play with.There was also some structured exhibit(s) on the main floor but we didnt get to visit because our little one was pretty worn out from playing upstairs.When we were talking to the ticket/gift shop person, they also had mentioned that there were discounts if you had membership with certain other area businesses, like the aquarium, so thats something to look into if you go for a visit.Overall Id definitely recommend it for anyone looking for a fun way to spend a couple hours with their 2-9 year old, if youre in the Duluth area.

Every time Ive gone its been different, great place for the little ones.