Meredith Children's Museum

[Angelia818]

Has anyone been to the Meredith Children's Museum? We're thinking about taking our 17 month old there over Labor Day weekend.
Thanks-

[Argie's Wife]

We haven't... but we're big fans of the Children's Museum of NH (http://www.childrens-museum.org/cmnh2010/) in Dover. We buy an annual membership to one of the recipocating museums, like the McAliffe-Shephard Planetarium in Concord or the SEE Science Museum in Manchester. They're part of a reciprocal program with hundreds of other museums in the world - you can get in at the other museums for free or a small fee - it's a wonderful program and helps to save money, in the long run.

(We've figured that 2 trips for our family of 4 to the planetarium in a year is equal to the cost of an annual membership - so that's a big savings for us with all the other day-trips we do.)

There's one review on YELP (http://www.yelp.com/biz/meredith-childrens-museum-meredith) for the Meredith CM.

[winniplayhouse]

My daughter enjoyed the Children's Museum in Meredith when she was younger. Haven't been there in a few years but, assuming it's still the same, it has some fun bubble activities, a large climbing structure and other hands-on activities. Not a place to spend all day but you can certainly kill a few hours. To my recollection, the only issue we had was there didn't seem to be regular hours. The website advertises general hours but I seem to recall stopping by several times and finding it shut. The few times we did go we had it to ourselves though, so that was nice.

[winnipiseogee]

Can't really recommend it. It seems like it was a great place 5 years ago but now its just a bit sad. We took the nieces and nephews there a little over a year ago and they didn't last 20 minutes. I certainly wouldn't make it a big part of your labor day plans. The one in Dover is awesome if you are willing to make the drive. Good luck!