Impression 5 Science Center — Attraction in Lansing

A great place for all ages! There is an infant/toddler/preschool room just for the littles, and includes a water room with a separation gate. The older kids (and adults) enjoy hands-on building blocks, giant magna-tiles, problem solving building a trestle bridge, pretend play with a "working" grocery store, and practical physics lessons with the "throwing things" exhibits. There is a bubble room, a natural science area, a dark room where light is explored, and a water room with lots to do! There's an area to eat if you bring a lunch, kid-friendly (and kid-sized) and family-friendly bathrooms, a nursing room, a gift shop with lots of great gift ideas, a small snack area where you can purchase water bottles, light snacks, and (Keurig) coffee, as well as a coat room to hang your stuff. There's an upstairs, but an elevator provides access. A couple of things - it gets warm in the summer, so plan on that. Also parking can be tight, so you may need to walk a bit if there are no spaces. If you plan on attending more than once or twice a year, the membership is the way to go. It pays for itself within a few visits, depending on your family size. Plus you get free and discounted entrance to parks all across the country. Plan on spending a few hours to half a day here. There's plenty to do, depending on...

As an engineer as well as a kid at heart, I loved my visit to this place. I think my almost-seven-year-old son did too, lol. They have a rotating display, which was dinosaurs when I was there. It wasn't a huge display, but I got to touch a real Tyrannosaurus Rex thigh fossil! Like they put it there specifically so you could touch it. How cool is that?!

The permenant exhibits were interactive and interesting too. The standard Lego table and bubble area, but also they had some light painting, a really fun water area, a Giant light-bright and several chairs-on-a-block-and-tackle (which I'm still trying to explain to my son) so you could use different amounts of force to lift yourself. Fish tanks and bird feeder Webcams and pneumatic ball launchers and paper airplane launchers. Yeah, this place was the best kid-hands-on-musuem I've been to, I mean I've take my son to, yet.

Overall it seemed well maintained and clean, though a couple items from the exhibits were beaten up (understandable). All the staff we met we friendly, even the ones cleaning up after the wee little kids. Really I'd recommend this to anyone who wants to instill a little wonder and a little science into their kids in a hands-on,...

I take my 3yo granddaughter here constantly. We've been coming here almost every week (sometimes multiple times a week) for over a year. We love it. The membership is so worth it. The staff is great and it's clean. I love that there are sanitizer stations all over. The upstairs bathrooms have a stall with a small toilet and low sink in addition to regular ones that honestly helped with potty training in my opinion.

It's also helpful to know that there is an elevator to go upstairs and if you can't do any steps at all just walk past Philomena the elephant and look to the right and you'll see the ramp that will get you to the elevator.

It's really a fun place to take kids and get them interested in science, even at 3 years old I'm seeing my granddaughter make daily connections based on activities she really liked here.

The first impression room for birth to 4 year olds is great and it has doors in case you little is a flight risk.

The only issue is sometimes the parking lots are full and we've had to go somewhere else. I've seen other people circling going for a...