One has to go outside to give their child a snack; not a good children's museum
Children's Museum of Virginia的点评
点评:They have timed entry tickets they want you to purchase in advance, and they are sticklers about the time. Some of the staff are condescending.
There is no waiting area and no restroom to use if it is not your time to enter the museum yet. They do not allow food and drink. There is no eating area inside. So if you want to give your child a snack, you have to go outside. It's strange.
The day I was there, they were promoting a play called "Path to Freedom" and had very loud drumming for part of the time. While that drumming performance was going on, part of the museum was inaccessible because there was no path to walk through to get to the other part of the museum because it was being blocked by the performers and spectators.
Most of the place is unsupervised by staff, so if there are unruly and/or unsupervised children with bad parents, they might take things over and push your child out of the way. In the Curious George room, one child was using the golf ball and hitting it all over the entire room as hard as he could instead of using it on the putt-putt green. The golf ball was hitting other people.
The place is generally dirty. No one cleans anything during the day, and most stuff probably doesn't get cleaned at all.
The Wegman's "grocery store" did not have enough items in it. Not sure why it would be so difficult to put some new empty food boxes in there.
Some exhibits were broken or didn't work quite right.
Watch out for the Newtons Cradle. It is poorly designed and could easily bash the head of your child.
I've been to many children's museums all over the country, and this was my least favorite.
翻译:他们实行限时入场,要求提前购买门票,而且对时间把控非常严格。有些工作人员态度傲慢。
如果还没到入场时间,博物馆内没有等候区,也没有洗手间可以使用。馆内禁止饮食,也没有用餐区。所以,如果想给孩子吃点零食,就只能到外面去。这很奇怪。
我去的那天,他们正在宣传一部名为“通往自由之路”的戏剧,演出期间有一段时间鼓声非常响亮。演出期间,博物馆的一部分区域无法通行,因为表演者和观众挡住了去路。
大部分区域都没有工作人员监管,所以如果遇到不守规矩或无人看管的孩子,以及不称职的家长,他们可能会擅自行动,甚至推搡你的孩子。在“好奇猴乔治”展厅里,有个孩子拿着高尔夫球到处乱打,而不是在迷你高尔夫球场上玩。高尔夫球打到了其他人。
这个地方很脏。白天没人打扫,而且大部分东西可能根本就没洗过。
韦格曼超市的“商品”太少了。真不明白为什么放几个新的空食品盒进去就这么难。
有些展品坏了,或者运转不正常。
小心牛顿摆。它的设计很差,很容易撞到孩子的头。
我去过全国各地很多儿童博物馆,这家是我最不喜欢的。