This was our second visit with our three year old grandson. It's a smashing place with lots of hands on activities and learning experiences. Our earlier visit was during term time on a sunny day in the afternoon and that was ideal for a young child with mainly children around his age and not overly busy. Today it was a rainy Christmas holiday and extremely busy. It didn't spoil our fun but my one criticism is that the under 5s area was unsupervised by Eureka staff which meant that the popular ball drop machine was several times monopolized by unsupervised older children and the younger ones were pushed out. Our grandson particularly enjoyed the interactive walls.

Brilliant my 11 year old especially like the all about you bit. I thought she’d be a bit young for the pretend shop and bank but she loved that too. It’s all hands on with lots to do. A few things didn’t work like the pictures of a baby growing in mums tummy but we just moved on to the next bit. We like the illusions and it would have great to see more. The negatives for me is that cafe is quite expensive and you have to pay for parking. The interactive bits could ge better but over all I thought it was great! We spent over 2 hours in there. Itvwas a bit crowded so I’d advise to book before you go.

Great for young kids though some of the displays that are interactive need more explanation on how to work them, maybe more simply written for younger children. AVOID the cafe. It’s dreadful and expensive. They really need to up their game. Badly organised and the kids sandwiches are poor. Take your own food as there are places to eat it.

Expected a bit more really, nice building, nice view over the river, my son enjoyed it, but it lacked a lot of the interactive stuff you would expect. They seem to opted for monitors with rather not the best interface, which my 4 year old wasn’t to fussed with. I was hoping something like the other science centres for kids like Nemo in Amsterdam or the Detroit science centre which is fun and enjoyable for everyone of all ages.. for the three of us £44, we prob my son got bored after about an hour.. wouldn’t say it’s really a birthday activity, more of school Trip school activity

Far too busy with lots of Scouts groups who were out of control and taking over everything. My 3 year old barely got to go on anything. The prices are a joke really. A 3 year old same price as an adult at £16 is a rip off. And it’s probably the only place I’ve had to pay for car parking at an attraction when you’ve already spent loads on entry tickets. Lot of the activities need updating and a limit on the amount of group bookings

We visited the museum with our 5 year old daughter. It wasn't quite as good as I was expecting. We have been to far better children's museums (Think Tank in Birmingham and We The Curious in Bristol). It was far too busy especially on the ground floor. A large part of the museum centres around role play, these areas were too busy to be able to play there. We spent about 1.5 hours there but had expected to be there longer. when we went to the Think Tank in Birmingham we were there from 10.30am to 5pm and our daughter was still finding things to be interested in. I was expecting much more from Eureka and I don't think we will be going back with the annual pass.

Great place for children to explore and learn at the same time. Our son is 18 months old and he had a great time exploring. Food in the cafe is reasonably priced and very quick service. Great to have an annual ticket too

Love that I have an annual pass now, my 3 year old loved it. Lots of things to play with. She loved the role play area. Great fun, reasonably priced. My food was great. Kids box not so much. Only one drink to choose from and the jam sandwich was like a rock and had about a jar of jam plastered all over she couldn't eat it. The only downside to our visit was the 2 schools that were also visiting at the same time. Maybe if your closed on a Monday, have school visits only on this day. They didn't want to share anything, they were running around, had no respect for the things, they were climbing and jumping off things, the teachers were having a nice chat in the corner, so oblivious as what was happening. We tried not to let it ruin our visit, we got to see everything just really didn't have much time on everything as we were overuled by 50 kids.

It would probably have been better to visit outside of school holidays as it was very busy and the same pushy children were pushing past other kids to do each of the activities with their uninterested parents leaving them to be rude. I would rather have paid a little more and had them limit the numbers on the day. In terms of the actual some parts were really well thought out (e.g smells to identify, pregnant abdomen that you can feel kick), other bits they had missed opportunities to make them better. It was disappointing how many things didn't work and needed fixing, I would have thought that they would be more on top of repairs (for example the big digestive system display didn't work, the cycling skeleton didn't work, and lots other elements). The staff were really good at interacting with the children and very welcoming. I think when this place opened years ago it was probably fantastic particularly on a term time visit, but 10 years on with little signs of updates/improvements it needs a bit of a once over to justify the admission costs was our feeling.

Visited today for the first time and was not very impressed. Took my 8 year old son as the website advises that it is suitable for up to 12 year olds. To be honest it was rather chaotic. I appreciate that the museum is interactive but it felt more like a large play area for younger children. My son wanted to leave after 15 minutes and we managed to pursuade him to stay for an hour by diverting into the coffee shop. You have to book a time . We arrived at around 2 and I dont think there any time restrictions at all as it was quite busy at this time.Maybe the experience we had was because it was a busy bank holiday . Unfortunately we left underwhelmed and wont be returning. I dont think that its interesting enough for an 8 year old. Stayed all of an hour which included time in the coffee shop so not good value for money for us today particularly as we travelled to visit.