Its small.. But lots of things for kids to enjoy.. They have spiders and snakes to look at.. Jungle gym and other things

A good place ti spend a day with kids. There are machines, toys and simulators that are of interest for young kids. The staff is friendly and do their best to keep the place clean and tidy.

Lots of activities for the kids. A great indoor option during the winter, but the outdoor activities look fun too! All of the activities are pretty age-universal and fun no matter what, but the older they are, they could really learn a ton of science. Everyone, staff and visitors, were all really friendly and helpful.

5$ to get in. Grandkids loved it, a lot of the areas are non operating especially in the vet room, but the concept and dress up was still appreciated. Interesting old building . Though its geared towards 10 and under my older grandchildren found things to do . The outside section was closed due to weather. Many secret spaces to entertain the kids. We spent about 2 hour here.

My kids enjoy the vet area and bubble making!

Closing forever as out of money. Passes good at other museums in system.

Love this place! Could use a little updating, cleaning and repair to some exhibits but mostly its awesome!! We were there for the balloon drop at noon on New Years Eve!! Pretty amazing!! The historic building is beyond fantastic!!

An entertaining hands on learning experience for youngsters.

For being in such a small place, it’s pretty good. They have the iconic water table and wind tunnels for the kids to play with. We spent only about 1.5-2 hours here before we continued on our vacation to Iowa. It was also free for military, so big plus!!

This museum is small, but neat. The exhibits are interesting and the people are nice. The building is especially cool and still retains the theater architecture!

This childrens museum is unique, because it is in an old theater. Very cute. Lots to see. My kids loved it.

We went for the first time today (we are from out of town) for the noon day drop and the place is dingy and gross. The whole upstairs smelled like pee and was completely unbearable! We were extremely disappointed!!!! We are ASTC members and still had to pay full price which was NOT worth it!

You get what you pay for. Im not sure how people say they spend 1-3 hours here. Its 1 hour max. My 2 year old enjoyed it but its much less than I was expecting. It was very inexpensive so thats good.

Okay for the money but not much in the way of activities and some still broken from last visit almost a year ago.

Love this little children’s museum. Expect to spend 1-3 hours here, depending on age of your kids. Perfect for 1-6 year olds. Older siblings will have fun for awhile, but probably not a destination for them to go without younger siblings.Exhibits my son enjoys the most are the water table, magnet tiles, indoor playground area, and watching the turtles swim around.

Fun place to have a birthday party for kids! I vividly remember the dinosaur bone dig from when I was in kindergarten and still enjoy this place when taking my friends kids here!

The museum itself was nice. The kids liked the outdoor area and spent a lot of time at the water table and the coloring on the walls.Halfway through our visit they opened the gates and released all the camp kids with no supervision. They ran, pushed, grabbed and didn’t share and blocked my children from entering the boat or the space area. We ended up leaving earlier than planned and less than happy.

A great place to have in the downtown area. Lots of activities for kids. A fabulous outdoor space with Dino dig, bubbles, and butterfly garden. A water table, a Lego area, and an indoor slide are just a few of the indoor features. This place is perfect for any day but especially for hot summer days and cold winter days when you need a place to take the kids to burn off energy. A membership for a year is the best value but if only going for a day it is only $5 per person.

Although my grand kids enjoyed the visit my daughter and I were disappointed that many exhibits were broken and the facility was filthy.

Our 18 month had a lot of fun. It wasnt very clean and could really use some updates, but I guess that takes funding. It was priced well for what it was.

There might be some activities to do in the summer, but in winter time this is an empty cave. We were there for about an hour and we saw everything they had to offer. I thought the place was not very clean and more than half of the things they were having there were not really working. I had to turn on one of the machines myself (luckly I understand electric). Theatre was closed and boy that is a waste of space. I do hope theyll be able to do something with that. So much space going to waste.

Just OK to play. However, the toys are a bit old and the place is a bit dirty

Fun for younger kids and even entertaining for kids who are a little older, too!

It was a nice experience for my grandchildren and me. Nice exhibits and friendly people.

Took my kid here once. It was Ok he was a little bored but that’s just what he says LOL

Exhibits look like homemade science projects. Half of them didnt work. The stuffed animals in the vet area were filthy and needed more stuffing.

Kids encouraged to use a lot of imagination

Small. Entertains children for about an hour.

Great place to bring the kids for the day. The do need to expand their area and have more activities.

Always a great place for the kids. Perfect for a rainy day as well.

Smaller then expected but the kiddos LOVED IT! Had so much fun for hours. Definitely would go back again. Perfect for those cold and or rainy days.

This is a nice enough place to spend the afternoon. I think we spent 3 hours there before running out of things to do. I like their outdoor exhibits on paleontology, archeology, whisper disks (the best whisper disks Ive experienced!). They also have giant bubbles but on our windy day it didnt really work, maybe because of the wind or maybe the solution was poor. The water play zone is a always a favorite at any childrens museum and my kids spent a lot of time there. There were a few exhibits closed during construction and a few that really needed some maintenance.

My 3 yo loves this place. Great for a cold or rainy day.

A nice childrens destination, age 1.5-6. Some of the exhibits are a bit run down or not working correctly, and Id classify it more as a childrens museum than science or nature. Those with passes to Chicagos Adler or MSI can get in free.

I really want to give this more stars, because I really want to see Champaign-Urbana have a great childrens science museum.A number of people have put a great deal of effort into making great components of this space. Unfortunately it doesnt come together very well. It has seen very free updates and doesnt measure up to the childrens museums in Decatur or Normal.That being said, the staff are great and having a birthday party there is certainly a great time.

It has potential but there is a lot of wasted space and exhibits are stale. We frequently drive to Bloomington, Decatur, Indy, or Chicago for the museums instead. Champaign just cant keep up. Its good for like 45 minutes to an hour and then we are ready to move on.

It was good places clean stuff but they dont change it enough to where its fun to go more than once

It is not worth the 5 dollars they charge, but I do understand the contribution of the money to keep the old theatre up an running in some type of way. One thing that struck me as odd if that is the main reason to keep it open, guests are allowed to write on the walls in a part down stairs. Would have loved to see this theater in its prime.

This is an interesting place! And the theater is pretty big

I understand that they saved an old theatre. However there is nothing much to see or do. Need to improve a lot.

Went to wedding reception in another area of facility. Good time

Perfect size for our two year old granddaughter. Staff was very helpful.

Nice, but small museum. Worth the admission price (low). Decent couple hours of entertainment.

Nice displays and activities for kids

Ok. We are members and really wish this was a great childrens museum, but it just isnt. We have been to others in the area and many in the Chicago area and this one just doesnt measure up. I understand that is mostly run by volunteers and donations but every time we go, it just seems sad and thrown together. There is a newer area with a space theme that is nearly empty and the 2 machines they do have are always broken. I think they need a bigger space and/or better funding to make it a destination for the area. It is fine to go to once or twice a year, but beyond that it just isnt that interesting. That being said, we will continue to be members and to take classes to support the place and hopefully they can become a destination for the area eventually.

The place its self was nice. The other children there did not want to share anything and the older kids were climbing over over the half walls and on top of the slide. The parents of these children were not paying attention nor were the staff. I will not be taking my child there again.

Great place to have fun!

I would give this zero stars if I could. I took a 9 year old there, and he was bored out of his mind. The place is dirty, exhibits were out of date and not much information. Many things were not up and running. Parents just dropped off their children and left, I guess it is a cheap babysitting service at $5.00 a head for as long as you want.

Thanks to the CU Junior Womans Club for another great play!

Great price lots to do!

A little disappointing. Compared to other childrens museums in the area it is tiny. Add in the fact that a good portion of the exhibits were either closed or broken, the only saving grace was that the admission was cheap.

My son loves this place. Lots of family fun.

Went here for the first time for an art benefit and wow was it a phenomenal space!!! I loved the inside as it has kept all of its old time movie house feel!

Wonderful place for events. Must see. Tpd

Need to update items.Very old objects

I have been staying in town for a little while and kept Googling and coming across this place it is definitely a great place to take your child lots of learning activities and playful things to wear them out.

Had prom there so much fun

Always have a blast here, the only filthy toys are in the sand box, or outside in the Dino dig area. Always something new on the second floor on display. Whenever the Christmas season comes around they host an awesome indoor snow globe. We also attended a event hosted by the U of I for their engineer students.

Smaller space for some. Young children would like it. Anyone over 10 may get a little bored.

Fun place tot take the grandkids.

Many fun things to do, but can get crowded. The gift shop was not very diverse but my students loved the tarantulas.

Neat place, very unique venue.

Nice little childrens museum. Has a bunch of different things for children to do. My son loved the water table and stayed there for almost an hour.

Great place to take young children! I took my 2 year old grandson and he had a great time!

5 year old loves to come here for all the random activities they have available

Kind of run down, the air machine was broken, small enough that you can always keep an eye on your party

Kids had a great time with many interesting things to do.

I have not been to the museum in about 5 years and was a bit blown away that it was 5 dollars a person when nothing has been updated and part of the museum was under construction. My kids age 2 and 4 were bored in 20 minute. Total waste of money.

Drove down on a whim to kill some time. The building is tucked away behind a parking lot, its a cool old building but it is very small. We have a membership elsewhere so it was half price which made it not to expensive. Couple of hours max and youve done everything twice.

Such a great small town childrens museum. Theres enough for ages 2-8 to have fun but not so big that you lose track of them.

It was very fun. My son particularly. Liked the train tracks and water table. Rather small and somewhat cramped, though .

Go see our sons college exhibit. Great place for fun and learning.

Interactive fun....parents and kids both learnamd are amazed

It was a cute place that we could get out for an hour and let our kids run around. It isnt very big though and some of the stuff was broken.

Not bad, but not a whole lot to do here

A great place for kids to play and explore.

They were so helpful is planning our wedding reception. Great space, definitely go with Crash Events for your DJ, he really knows how to work with the space.

Very interesting place for even old kids, like me. I love the hands on environments they provide.

Dirty....nothing works its all out of order.... Needs a major clean up!!!!!!

On our last trip to the Champaign-Urbana area, my entire family visited the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum and we had a good time. We dropped by on a Sunday afternoon about 10 minutes before the museum officially opened at noon. A birthday party was just wrapping up while we waited for opening time. It’s obvious that the museum used to be a theater and we loved the architecture and some of the original details inside. The museum isn’t very large, but it is situated on 2 levels with various exhibits that incorporate a fun way to learn about science. There weren’t many people there when we visited (after the birthday party left) so we almost had the whole place to ourselves.The Good: My toddler son had a great time at some of the exhibits at the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum. Some of his favorites were the train table (of course…it was so hard to pry him away from the train table), the water table (again, a favorite among many kids – but this table was different in that it had different sized plastic pieces that you could configure to control water flow), and a sand table with purple sand.My teenage daughter and I really enjoyed the Momentum Machine on the lower level. A small spinning circle teaches angular momentum - just like you see the figure skaters do on the ice. You kick off with one leg, hold your leg out to the side, then slowly bring your leg back to your other leg. You’ll start spinning faster and faster!The Bad: The museum was a tad bit on the small side, and we couldn’t get some of the exhibits on the second level to work – due to missing pieces and such.Overall: The Orpheum Children’s Science Museum is a good way to spend a few hours with the kids. Children will benefit from the many science lessons found throughout the museum – and they’ll have lots of fun doing it! Admission is only $5 per person (as of January 2015, please check website for details), so its an inexpensive educational outing for the kids!

Cool place to take kids and even teens

Weve done a few work events here and it was always such an interesting building.

Wonderful afternoon activity with grands! Love the outdoor activities!

Cool place for kids and cheap

Snow globe event was great.

Loved it! Small, but plenty of things to do!

Wonderful and entertaining for the little ones. Its always busy!

Everything was out of order the staff was barley watching the kids that where there

Nice place. Great for birthday parties.

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A neat learning center with numerous interactive displays. Dont be fooled by its worn down exterior - the Orpheum Childrens Museum is a happening place!

It was expensive and there is barely anything to do. I paid 10.00 so my daughter could play with filthy toys... I drove 40 minutes and it was a super disappointment. I suggest Bloomingtons childrens museum or Decatur.

Good place for kids to learn about science.

Hours of fun!

Pretty neat place to come. Kids love it!

A Stimulating place of exploration for children.

Good for younger kids

Great place for kids

Great little Museum

This place was a lot of fun for the kids!