New Britain Youth Museum — Attraction in New Britain

Very cute quiet spot. Only $3/kid on a Sunday. $10 minimum for a card payment so we bought from the “gift shop” cute little Knick knacks. Two large rooms. The main room has several stations and many many things to do for children of all ages. I would say 2-8, but it’s best for 2-5 for an extended period of time. There were also more advanced stations options with microscopes , X-rays and puzzles for them to do. A side room has a large “grocery store” two play kitchens, a play dining room table. A large table full of. Crayons markers and color pencils and pages for coloring. A secret upstairs room filled with stars and planets. Very cute and entertaining for about 2 hours and low cost. The lady there is very nice. It can get a little disorganized but from the looks of it she doesn’t have any help and there are many many children playing with the Toys. But I saw her trying to clean up when she could. I...

I do love this place it has a good program for younger children on Tuesdays and Fridays at 11:30 to 12 where they can interact with an animal and then make an appropriate crafts or drawing and also they have some toys and such fun to play with the bummer is that they don't really have a lot of money for exhibits and it is challenging for them to come up with things the only charge like $2 for admission or something like that I personally paid a whopping 20 for the year and you can go whenever you want if you do the experience interaction thing for the kids then every third time you visit they also get to pick out a book it's really awesome when it teaches the kids in a very short time span to sit still listen to the story about the animal gently interact with an animal and then to do their craft or play I wish they had more money for the exhibits but there are some cute exhibits...

We visited on Friday, January 14th. My son was busy playing for about 2 hours and hated to leave! It was more of a playroom than a museum with exhibits. I also brought my 3 month old and there wasn’t much room for the stroller which was frustrating. The staff member that was at the counter was not very friendly. My son dropped his water and it only got on the floor but she seemed very annoyed. She also only spoke to us to tell me what my son couldn’t do but was happily chatting with the other moms there. I honestly didn’t feel welcome there at all. I spoke with Ms. Nicole about taking some classes at Hungerford so I’m excited to look into that! The parking was easy and convenient. They have a $10 minimum to use a card and I wasn’t prepared for that so I ended up having to buy a few books so we could be admitted...