Places which are good for adults and great for kids, from zoos and wildlife exhibits to science and art museums.

Eventually the goal is to add a page for each listing where people can put comments and reviews or create new content pages. For now most links take you directly to their respective websites. If you have anything to say about any of the listings (or a new one to add) please post a comment. If you have enough to say, I’ll use your comment as the basis of a new page within this section. Anything which combines the arts or education with a kid-friendly atmosphere can go here.

The Children’s Museum (Holyoke)

Dr. Suess National Memorial (Springfield)

The Eric Carle Museum (Amherst)

The Trolley Museum (Shelburne Falls)

The Robert Barret Fishway (Holyoke)

The Forest Park Zoo (Springfield)

The Holyoke Merry-Go-Round (Holyoke)

The Springfield Science Museum (Springfield)

The Amherst College Museum of Natural History (formerly the Pratt Museum) contains three floors of exhibits and over 1700 individual specimens. There are a variety of displays on vertebrate evolution and extinction, geology of the Connecticut River Valley, and the world’s largest collection of dinosaur tracks, many from…

Springfield Science Museum
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103
Phone: 413-263-6800

Discover the wonders of science through the live animal Solutia Eco-Center, the cultures and animals in R.E. Phelon African Hall, Dinosaur Hall with its towering Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Seymour Planetarium, Mineral Hall, early…