Have taken the tour of Children's museums in the upper Midwest and this place is OK but definitely not the best around. Place is clean, staff is nice, exhibits are well maintained. They have reciprocal agreements with lots of other museums for free admission. (If u don't have your card, they will call museum for you, which is nice.). Not sure why they put this downtown. No kids live in the area. Kind of hard to get to, and place is relatively small (I suspect because floor space in the area is expensive). Not a bad place for kids to blow off steam, but I wouldn't go out of my way.