The Children's Museum of Indianapolis

The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is truly a wonderful place to spend quality family time. We have three little girls — one-year-old twins and a five-year-old — and it’s an incredibly fun and educational environment where the whole family can enjoy together. The kids learn so much while playing, exploring, and interacting with every exhibit. This was our second visit and we absolutely love it — the themes, the creative spaces, and how everything is designed to bring animated worlds to life so children can connect, play, and imagine. This time we visited the Paw Patrol experience and it was amazing to see how excited they were enjoying every moment. We will definitely keep coming back. Highly recommended for families with kids!

One of largest children’s museum. Many floors and sections to explore. It has Dinosphere, space/earth, power of children (Ann Frank, Malala etc), Egyptian discovery and more. Carousel is on the top floor (separated tix). It’s a Historic Landmark originally located at White City Amusement Park (Broad Ripple Park) from the segregation era. Strong history going behind that wheel. You can easily spend a whole day there. Many hands on activities. Benches around for adults. Bathroom is clean. I definitely have a great time as well as my kid. Free parking lot. Highly recommend to get the tix online (extra $1 fee). Highly recommend to stop by if you are in the area.

It’s a huge place with over 4 floors activities for children. They have free parking for guests. Tickets are $32 for adults and slightly cheaper for kids. They have carousel rides for kids as well, $2 per ride. The dino section is the largest one in the facility. There are several dino skeletons on display, a small bone digging area for kids and also window view of staff members actually extracting dino bones in a lab. Some of the other nice areas were the ISS and space program, the pop art hall and the Peru small town setup. There’s a food court and store museum as well. Multiple restrooms available at every level. Families can easily spend more than half a day here exploring nature, science and also doing many hands on activities.

We have the best time as a family here. It started when they had the mickey mouse clubhouse exhibit and has continued through the winterfare on in to the paw patrol exhibit. There are rotating exhibits that keep it feeling fresh, we got the season pass and it pays for itself on the 2nd visit. I can not recommend this place enough! Best part of the experience is that our children always end up sleeping within 30 minutes of leaving the museum!

It was so much fun with the toddler to explore this museum. It was so well organized for the kids. Especially my kid enjoyed the paw patrol, winter wonderland and Peru themes. There were so things for the kids to pretend and play. Time well spent.

I came here for something to do while I was visiting a friend for a couple of days and even though I'm 23 and it says "childrens" museum I was very entertained! The power of children exhibit was heartbreaking, the blown glass exhibit was incredible to look at and overall I had a great time walking around and it was a good way to kill a few hours! If I wasnt on a time crunch for my trip I would have loved to spend a full day going through the museum!

Holy hell — this place is massive. Five full floors and somehow every single one is packed with something worth stopping for. You could spend an entire day here and still feel like you missed stuff. The Dinosaur Exhibit is next level. Not "kids museum cool" — legitimately impressive. Huge, immersive, and the kind of thing that makes adults slow down and geek out just as much as the kids. But my personal favorite? The pop culture exhibit. As a kid of the 80s who grew up in the 90s, this hit straight in the nostalgia. One of those "oh wow, I forgot about that" moments over and over again. It felt less like an exhibit and more like being dropped back into a really good chapter of life. Bottom line: If you’re anywhere near Indy, this museum is 100% worth it. Bring comfortable shoes, plan more time than you think you’ll need, and be ready to be impressed — whether you’re 6 or 46.