Way overpriced and not really for small children. I wish I would have read the negative reviews before spending $125 for a family of 4 and wasting an entire day in Indy. This is NOT geared toward small children (pop culture room, Nelson Mandela exhibit, topics like: Anne Frank, segregation, AIDS). The only mildly interactive area for younger children is the playscape room up on the 3rd floor ONLY for ages 5 and under which has a sand table, a giant water table, a ball maze, and a small climbing structure.

The dinosaur exhibit is cool for those that like dinosaurs, but my 3 year old only enjoyed the fossil dig area... otherwise she was bored and begging to leave. They had a couple puzzles to put together (dinosaur, mummy, terracotta soldiers) and a very small crawl space to pretend to be an astronaut, the train room had a kids train table like the one we own at home. The water clock tower was cool to see as an adult, but not so much for little kids. The outside sports area is actually very nice where you can play basketball, soccer, football, tennis, race a pedal car, and play mini golf. The mini golf was actually impressive as it had a toddler mini golf and 2 courses for older more experienced golfers.

I could see if you were a local, having a membership might be worth it for the outside play area, but charging one time visitors $30+ a person and marketing it as a children's museum is outrageous. This is more like a history museum geared towards teens/adults... even then it's a weird hodge podge of stuff. I'm from St. Louis where we have an amazing children's museum that is half the price of this place and we also have a science museum that is FREE with way more interactive exhibits at both of these (FYI our zoo is also FREE).

Admission: They offer a couple discounts like 10% off for military families in person, but I couldn't find what the price was at the gate since they use dynamic pricing online and don't disclose the gate price online, so I purchased online to supposedly save money with an added $4 processing fee. I posted a picture of the admission prices at the gate for anyone else wondering. On the first thursday of the month it is only $6 to enter but I've read it is very crowded on those days. We went on a Saturday which was not very crowded, but it was still hard to get around with a stroller, so I'd hate to see it on a busier day.

Parking: The website describes having three free surface parking lots and then having "premium" parking garages which I then thought the garage would cost money, but when we arrived they had a sign saying it was free which was confusing but we already drove past it on a one way road so we just parked at the first surface lot. When we left, very few people had parked on the surface lot and there was one "security" car with a sleeping security guard in it, so if you have the option park in the parking garage where your vehicle will be safer.