TravelTrekker

It was a real gem, I could easily spend a whole day. We were visiting Birmingham city centre for a day. Till we arrived, I didn't really know what to expect. It was fantastic! The outside play area was a real fun; so unique, packed with thought provoking interactive playing tools. I also found all the display of real models of steam engines, spitfires, parts of factory machines etc. very interesting. Extra tickets for planetarium experience was worthwhile too. We'll definitely come again when we next visit Birmingham.

We visited with our children and found the place to be exceptionally clean with friendly staff. It is an ideal location for both young and adult visitors. We spent almost 2 to 3 hours exploring, with plenty to see and read about. Additionally, the cafeteria offers reasonably priced options. I highly recommend this place to everyone

My kids loved this museum, especially the outdoor garden. It was educational as they had to figure out the question in activities and write the answers down, and then stamp the right card for the right answer. Would highly recommend this place for children.

What a brilliant place!! By far the most interactive museum I have ever encountered, and very captivating for children. I feel like this is more than a science museum-we didn't expect to find such a wonderful collection of taxidermy, and a selection of arcade games from the 80's. The 'science garden' was the winner with our little scientist and he happily would've stayed outside for hours playing with all of the different experiments and trying all of the different mechanisms. He also favoured the robot on Level 3 which he enjoyed programming. There is so much to see and do here and we spent 4 hours, only leaving because I had a migraine. We certainly could've stayed longer. Park in the Millennium Point multistorey nearby (blue badge parking is free of charge). Accessible toilets were spacious and clean. Coffee shop could've been better, with no oat milk or coffee syrup, but you can't have it all.

Considering the price we were left wanting more and disappointed! Why is there so many displays and equipment broken? Aren't these checked daily and repaired? 2 toilets flooding and staff weren't bothered. Come on, we've been to so many better museums. Lots of bits are not working in the park. We arrived at 10.30 and left at 3.30 pm. My son is 6 years old and enjoyed the park and planetarium, but for the cost, this wasn't worth it. Cafe was super busy, expensive, and slow. Highly recommend bringing your own food. Planetarium was sold out and resulted in single seats only being available if your last in and kids expected to sit alone. Make sure you arrive early.

Overall, the visit was great and had good information about engineering and electronics etc and also had some fantastic exhibits as well. Also, the outside park was great, had some cool interactive stuff, and had some fun. But some of the interactive exhibits inside were either not working at all or had few problems, such as some of the interactive displays and joysticks not working or not responsive. In my opinion I would think after some maintenance these problems should be solved.