Pabst Mansion

While the first floor of the mansion is quite spectacular, I found the ticket absurdly overpriced for what you receive.

The pamphlet is poorly organized, and has absolutely no specific details about the items you see in the mansion. I understand this has been a work of restoration—no details in the pamphlet about that process.

The third floor has not been restored to the same scale as other floors, and the Christmas decorations felt a little bit like a slap in the face– haphazard, cheap. The museum would be better just not allowing people to go up to the third floor and avoid embarrassment (A record player with a Nat “King” Cole album but the record player isn’t even plugged in? Just sat on a table in the middle of the room? Come on.)

I also found it very odd that there were no title placards or descriptions anywhere on the walls in the museum – I understand there can be an aesthetic desire to make the museum look like a “home,” but it actually made it really hard to appreciate and sink myself into the history. And with the very bare pamphlet, it would’ve helped deepen the experience.

Overall – just absolutely not worth a visit given the price. I really think the museum should look to redesigning their pamphlet, which is poorly labeled, poorly written and frankly, laid out in a very confusing way.

You simply cannot charge admission that is higher than a vast majority the museums that I have been to all over the world and provide such amateur experiences for your visitors.