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| - If you have no other science museum to compare it to, then this is a fun outing to go to with the family. Parking is available at a nearby parking garage-don't forget to bring your ticket to validate to get a slight discount. The most ideal time to come during the week is after 2pm. This science museum caters to children, so it's not unusual for the museum to host multiple field trips from many schools every day. It does not let up in the summer time simply because a good percentage of summer camps bring their kids to field trips here too.
Sure you notice the 4 star average here from a good percentage of Yelpers, but take a closer look at the people who give the Arizona Science Center low ratings. You've got people complaining about the price of admission or an unfortunate situation where they ran into bad customer service, but do you see the negative comments about this science museum getting low marks because it lacks in quality? The comments that it is either severely outdated or pales in comparison to better science museums in other metropolitan areas? These negative comments aren't necessarily made by haters who don't live in Phoenix. These are people who live here in Phoenix, who had the privilege of traveling elsewhere, like the east coast, or San Francisco, who have gotten to tour what other science museums look like in other metro areas of this country. Of course if you don't travel out of state, you wouldn't know the difference, and would accept its mediocrity.
A good percentage of the Arizona Science Museum looks run down, and some of the hands-on exhibits were broken when we went. Some parts looked to be needing renovations and updating. The first thing my kids pointed out was asking where are the exhibits on dinosaurs or outer space? You know, they have that at other science museums elsewhere. For as much scenic beauty/mountains that surrounds Phoenix, I was surprised the "geology" section was just a small display of a couple of different rocks with a magnifying glass. Too much wordy displays of reading alongside a tired looking, outdated exhibit or tube TV screen that would show closed captioning of words as commentary to a circa 1990's video (referencing the "pregnancy" video in the body section). There's no touch screen technology integration like you'd see at the Smithsonian. If the science museum was successful, there'd be no need for it to recruit or find new members by offering their membership on Groupon for the past several months. Obviously they're hurting, and although I can understand the admission fees are steep to some, they have to make the profit somehow, which is why you see the additional fees for the traveling exhibits, planetarium and movies. We don't feel compelled to come back. We don't see this as a science museum that engages both the children and adults. When we went, it was simply a place our kids could run around indoors to escape from the heat and enjoy air conditioning.
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