Great Lakes Science Center

This center is a great place to spend time with children, many different entertainment games for children, you can eat delicious pizza. And we especially liked watching the film in the dome about fur seals, the most amazing thing. It will be interesting for both children and adults, I recommend it to everyone and give it a high score. You will not regret)))

So much fun. My daughter and I visited today and had a blast. Tons of different areas to try experimenting. Tons of interactive exhibits to try out. Different music, water & electric areas. Wish they had the bottom floor opened up or more exhibits to spread out and explore more.

I greatly enjoyed this addition to our day, and this place would be a wonderful time for kids. The staff was super helpful and knowledgeable, and even the gift shop staff was really cool. I'm definitely going to have to bring my nephew here.

Overall was a great experience, the family had a blast. My son face lit up at every exhibit as if he was at a coin free arcade. Got to love science. Only downside is we where having so much fun we lost track of time and didn't get to all of the exhibits. Next time we are in town, we are going too for sure.

My honest review after taking my 9 year old is to not waste your money. We’ve been to Pittsburgh’s science center several times and it’s much larger and for a similar ticket price. We did not rush through and looked at all the exhibits and activities and made it back to the parking garage within 3 hours. I child did enjoy himself, but I personally feel it wasn’t the best use of money for a day out. There are 3 floors but each floor is rather small. There’s also a nice sized section inside and outside that is reserved for 7 years and younger and that’s the section my 9 year old was most excited for, based on photos we saw before our visit - such a bummer for him. Per usual, the gift shop was over priced so we did not purchase anything. We had a stroller so we had to use the elevator but had to go through the education center to access it. The parking garage is rather expensive at $13 but we received a validation ticket reducing the cost to $9 when we purchased our tickets. If you are concerned about germs or potentially safe air, this is not the place for you. There was a few hand sanitizing units on the wall, a few sinks in the open space, but the one sink I tried didnt work. Our family visited the restrooms often to wash our hands as everyone was constantly touching things (it’s 100% a hands on interactive establishment). I saw there was even a sign in the car building section that said these parts are clean but never saw one person cleaning anything in the 3 hours we were there. I wanted to use the nursing room they offer, and was pleasantly surprised they even offered a quite space for nursing moms, but at some point there must have been a leak in the ceiling of that room because of the bulging ceiling tile when you enter the room and the musty/dirty/old smell in the room. Needless to say, I immediately left the room as I suspect there had to be some mold growth somewhere. When I left, I saw two men working on the bathroom across the hall and saw some gross black stuff all over the bathroom wall and that grossed me out even more and convinced me it was time to leave. This was for sure a first and last visit to this