Simply Amazing That Our Kids Hadn't Been Here: Lynchburg's Amazement Square

We live in Roanoke--and we'd never taken our kids to Lynchburg's children's museum, best known as Amazement Square?  Hard to believe, but true, so we were very thankful when dear friends invited us out with their family for a day at this truly-geared-for-kids museum. 

Amazement Square is an impressively interactive place--and among children's museums, its indoor climbing tower is known as the tallest in the nation and has many fun features, including a room-to-room zipline.  The museum is also well-known for its plexiglass painting room, but Elijah's favorite exhibit was the canal water table.  Gwen enjoyed the Big Red Barn toddler area--and honestly, her mom did, too, playing in the "underground" tunnel.  Several exhibit spaces allow for lots of "getting energy out" with gross motor activities, including a fun bug exhibit built for crawling in and on.  It's also one of those places when you can feel good about your kids exploring pretty freely--there's only one real entrance/exit, and it is monitored; just be advised that there are stairs if you have kiddos that aren't particularly sure-footed or are still crawling.

We recommend you visit, especially if you have kids between about 4 and 8, but kids of other ages will have a blast, too.  If you go, The Depot Grille is nearby (walkable) and good for a casual lunch.  It impresses Elijah as a restored train station.  On the date of our visit, we seemed to have "good timing"--eating lunch at the Depot noonish and then going to the museum just as lots of other families seemed to be doing the opposite.  For our take on another children's museum, this one in Greensboro, NC, click here.