Edward C.
Yelp
First time coming here with my daughter and wife. We were looking for a fun space to explore and let the little one run around and learn. The kidspace children museum is located right by the rose bowl and has plenty of parking in the public lot by the park.
The first thing we noticed when we walked in was how similar it looked to the Moxi museum in Santa Barbara. It had so many different learning activities that taught physics to natural history (wild life, dinosaurs, etc...). It was an outdoor adventure filled with indoor activities as well from creative play (building tracks and racing cars, to climbing the indoor tree house, riding a toyota truck to the big dinosaur excavation, to indoor craft activities guided by the wonderful crew at kidspace.
Outdoors you had the ball launch, seated pulley pull, lever tug of war, ice block building, ice fishing, tricycle racing, tricycle riding, water table, on the ground level.
If you go further up you have a sand pit, a outdoor children play market garden, water play area (bring change of clothes for you and the little one if you plan to play), mini rock wall, to a giant tree house like structure. All accessible walkway for strollers, and steps by foot.
This was such a fun place to come to and will definitely be back to have play dates with the little one and with friends.
They did have the sock ice skating event (additional $5 on top of admissions price) that started on Friday. We considered it but decided our daughter might not be ready for it yet. Will do it in the future.
The reason for the deduction in a star was unlike the Moxi museum where kids under 3 years of age are free but 3 and above is $14 and $18 for 13 years and older. At kidspace its $15.xx for adults and kids 1 and over. I think getting a membership would definitely be worth while after seeing that there are other places your membership allows you to visit, and surprise the Moxi museum in SB is one of them. Will definitely get an annual membership for our next trip.
Highly recommend if you have kids and definitely consider annual membership.