Museum of Science & Technology – MOST

This is a joke right? Trash barrels catching water dripping from the ceiling? Fans blasting wet carpets? A loud and obnoxious air blast every second making all of the toddlers scream plus nothing interesting to look at or do. Sad little excuse for a museum. Trapped in a time warp. Better off taking your kids to Dinosaur BBQ and letting them play with sugar packets while they wait for their awesome dinner.

I’ve gone here several times both as a kid and as an adult, and its still just as fascinating. It’s starting to show its wear and tear, but you can see they are starting to update a lot of the exhibits. They have added some really cool new ones (the sand topography map is amazing) but haven’t advertised them and they are kind of hidden. So if you go a lot, make sure you explore those back weird corners! You’ll be glad you did.
If you have kids that love science, or are even a little interested in it, this place is for them! Everything is made to be touched and played with and will ignite a passion they didn’t know they had. My son is only a year and a half and he has so much fun running around looking and exploring. We’ll certainly be back many times as he continues to grow and develop :)

I’m not sure what to say about this place. It started out very cool and then got boring. I was expecting a lot more interacting and science related things. I could barely think of this as having two floors. The first floor probably has the most hands on exhibits.
The second floor is all about flight it seems like. I understand that they are doing remodelling and adding exhibits. I was thoroughly disappointed. Drove 1.75 hours to check this place out.
$ 10 for admission and then imax is $ 4 more for one viewing. Then the planetarium is only open on the weekend. Bummer.
Only nice thing was parking in the trolley lot for $ 5.00 daily rate and then bringing back your ticket to get two dollars back.

The MOST is awesome!!! TACNY does the junior café scientifique monthly there, which is always interesting and appealing to young creative minds.
The MOST has interesting, educational, and fun exhibits. It’s a great place for parents and children a like to play and learn. And of course the IMAX is always a cool thing to check out.
It’s a great idea for parents to take their kids there a least a few times a year.
I have tweeted several times about my various experiences there… Here’s a search link to all of those tweets:
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I’m really happy with the recent changes and updates to the Most. The museum is obviously cleaner and everything was well maintained at our recent visit. They now have a light table with translucent Legos in the toddler area, as well as fully functional pneumatic ball run. It’s clean and nice. They’ve added seating and a lounge area nearby with magazines and books for kids. So much improvement that we’ve renewed our membership. It’s also a plus the membership is completely reciprocal for the science museums in Ithaca and Utica, which are pretty great. $ 79 is roughly the equivalent of exhibits and movies 2x for a family of four. Worth it.

This review may be influenced by the fact that I have been to a good many museums. BUT as a previous reviewer said, nothing works. Paid for a movie, sat for 15 minutes over time, only to be told that there were ‘technical difficulties’ and the had to cancel all the movies for the rest of the day. After a lengthy time I was able to receive a refund.
Overall very disappointing. I am a member of a different museum so we got in for free — still feel like I got ripped off.

Great place for the kids. Interactive exhibits with a large play structure. Active duty military are free.

There seems to be a problem with just about every exhibit in this place. Having a really hard time finding anything that works other than the cash register.

We go to the MOST several times a year… we’ve brought my daughter since she was a tot and she loves running around to see her familiar exhibits.
I can’t understand why so much of the place is in such disrepair. It’s a really neat concept, and a lot of the science exhibits would be cheap or nearly free to fix up. Also, I think any science teacher/​engineer who volunteered would be able to come up with some very low cost, innovative ideas. Hence the 2 stars.
That being said, I think they are trying… there are some fun new exhibits in the main hall on a regular basis, and the staff are as friendly as can be. I hope they continue to improve!

Beat down a bit and in need of some restoration.
Also they do a demonstration with liquid nitrogen with children 5 feet away who are told to «not touch». Yeah right! Super dangerous.

On a rainy day we hit up the MOST.
Positives: it is only a few dollars to get in and you could spend the entire day here. The different «departments» are super interesting and fun to go through.
Negatives: This place has been well loved. Alot of the interactive attractions are broken, dirty or missing parts. The museum doesn’t flow. We walked around and would end up at a dead end or to a place that wasn’t used anymore.
If you are in the area I would hit this place up… don’t expect awesome… just a fun time.

A lot of money has clearly gone into turning this historical building into a science museum. For that, I give the city kudos. However, I judge museums on the upkeep of their exhibits and the quality of information given.
A lot of the exhibits at MoST were in disrepair or simply not working at all. Many things showed sign of extreme wear and tear (for example, the padded grip on a jet simulator was shredded and torn to the point of almost falling off). I understand wear and tear, but you have to keep things somewhat maintained.
The instructional materials accompanying each exhibit were rather poor. As a former technical writer, I know a lot about document design and technical communication. These concepts are basically missing from the signs and explanatory text accompanying most of the exhibits. Some of them were just painful to read. Unfortunately this means that the information is less accessible to the masses, which is counter to the goal of a museum.

Just to be super clear: this is a children’s museum. There’s some fun exhibits, but it’s more of a playground. The actual science information is scant, but there’s a giant playground in the middle that kids were really loving. My favorite exhibit was the visible spools for the imax theater.

Great place for the kids. Started off a little slow but turned into a great place. Has a ton of hands on displays and a fun house for the kids. Parking is a bit annoying (free parking is a few blocks away which is not convenient to walk from in the middle of winter with kids but minor detail I guess. There is paid parking near the building.

Made a visit this past weekend with a friend and his kids. This place has a terrific mix of learning and all-​out fun. The huge science playhouse indoors can keep kids occupied for hours just climbing and sliding. The interactive exhibits really engage the children and they learn without even realizing it.
If you live in the area, the memberships are a great value as you can bring the entire family here every week and they always have something new to see.

Pretty cool place! I was here for a dinner event when I went to a conference at Onondaga CC. You’d think the place was meant only for kids but parents/​adults can get quite a lot out of it. Also, it was a great place for a catered dinner provided by Dino BBQ.

We visited the MOST to break up our road trip on our way from the Midwest to New England with kids age 3, 6 and 7.
We spent about 4 hours and enjoyed The hands on activities, play place area with slides and ball room with cannons, train display, etc. the gift shop area was pretty reasonable as well.
We saw most of the museum, but still could see stopping again on our way through.

Clean and inspiring! My 6-​year-​old loves the anatomy and fossil dig stuff. Several of the exhibits were closed, but it was still worth the trip. Lovely and educational way to spend an afternoon. Bonus: lockers are only 25 cents!

I really liked it here at the MOST. Make the most of the MOST! Ahaha. Anyway, I came here on a date, you know, because, well, it’s Syracuse.
It wasn’t very expensive to get in, and my date and I had fun messing with everything in the museum that people are supposed to mess with. The levers, magnets, cranks, buttons, and all that good stuff that shows you the causal relationship between multiple variables in the universe.
One of my favorite parts was the IMAX show we chose to see. We actually watched Ring Of Fire, which is about the ring of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean. It was pretty neat, actually. And it’s not on one of those dinky, shrunked IMAX screens — it’s on a REAL IMAX screen, so it was one of those «WOW I’M SURROUNDED» types of experiences.
But the best part of the say was messing with everything in the kids zone! I know, I’m 24. But hey, at the time I was 23 and it’s not like I jumped into the ball pit. We just did the same thing we did in the rest of the museum and messed with everything that was supposed to be messed with. The highlight here was this massive series of balls on «roller coaster» tracks that you can impact using other buttons and levers and all sorts of things. I love those! And I especially loved this one.
Anyway, if you go, it’s not too hard to make the most of it. It’s definitely worth spending a few hours in.