Had so much fun today with all the interesting, challenging, thought-provoking, mostly intuitive, creative and fun hands on exhibits that I wish I had young kids with me in order to see all the joy in their eyes! All the staff were super and genuinely excited to provide instructions to every person that asked.
This place is awesome! Learned a ton about STEM subjects and more! Great place to bring your friends and family. Really glad to have this place promoting helping repair the earth and environment. If you are there check out the Solve for Earth exhibit if you can. I would highly recommend this place for all ages and walks of life!
We had such a great time! There were activities for lots of different ages and we spent so much time upstairs that we had to come back the next day to experience most of the downstairs. The family pass was a good deal because it pays for itself after the second visit. Now we have the pass for the next year! We will be back since the museum has some exhibits that were closed during our visits. If you park in the SJ parking garages, you can get your parking validated and only pay $5 for the day!
Can’t help but think this place has lost focus in recent years. Its old name “Tech Museum of Innovation” was more about various hands-on tech exhibits and just random cool stuff for kids to explore. It was always a neat place to visit and had that cool 90s vibe (that’s a good thing). Now they’ve changed the name to “The Tech Interactive” and the museum has ironically moved away from being interactive to an actual museum, as its old name suggested. It’s very mature now and doesn’t really have that cool exploration vibe anymore. I remember how awesome it was to enter that massive atrium after buying tickets and looking up and down at the vast number of tech exhibits there were. They’ve switched focus to fewer, large-scale exhibits which weirdly don’t seem to have as much to do with tech. I support the initiative of renovating dated exhibits and even replacing old ones, but I’m not sure the direction they’ve gone is a good one. There’s a lot of biology-related stuff… and while that has a place in children’s education, I don’t think The Tech is where it should be taught.In other, more simple terms, I’d be much more excited as a kid to go to a museum where I could design my own roller coaster, race wheelchairs or experience an earthquake, than use augmented reality to view deconstructed human bodies through a tablet computer. The museum doesn’t lack cool exhibits, mind you - it just does compared to what it had 10 years ago. It used to be wacky, with weird, random tech-related exhibits that kids could just run to and have the time of their lives. It seems like a lot of the exhibits they have today won’t be appreciated by kids as much. I’m just sad that along with the name change came a change in the focus of the museum as a whole.
We have been to many science and children’s museums with my son, now six. The Tech is without a doubt one of the best we have ever been to for my son’s love of building and creating. We are only in San Jose for three days and may go twice just because he loved it so much. We avoided the body section because even his parents were too squeamish for that, but everything else was an amazing opportunity to explore science and engineering. Come here often.
Very interactive. Great for all age groups. I would go again.
I love the Tech Museum. Never again will I see a film on IMAX, though. Too big. Too loud. Too close. Too distorted.
Great for kiddos. Nearly everything was hands on; great for kids to learn anything tech related. Staff was polite and even offered to take a family pic for us. Thanks to that guy 👊
Biology and Medicine are not technology, should be removed from exhibits.There is a lot of scam and quackery in medicine, I think the museum has fallen for it.Silicon valley is tech, not doctors and skeletons.
A very fun and educational place to take the family. Lots of interesting things to learn about and its fun because there are a lot of hands on activities that you can do in the exhibits. Very fun and educational interactions for parents and children. Theres also a cafe and gift shop which is a good thing because if you want to enjoy everything, you need to be here all day. There is a lot of really cool stuff. We visited on a field trip and were limited on time so we didnt even get to see everything, but we did enjoy everything we did get to see.
The Tech Interactive is a pretty cool little museum for young and old. Its a good place to visit if you find you have some spare time while in San Jose. It has lots of interactive and educational rooms. You can experience what it was like during an earthquake, you can build things and even see what it’s like inside the human body.
A great tech museum located in the heart of Silicon Valley! Amazing interactive exhibitions: great for kids to spark their interest in and learn more STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) through different “games”! Even for adults, it is so much fun to visit!We have an annual family pass!!! We go visit here multiple times a year! Every time when we take friends and family members here, they really enjoy it!!! Highly recommend it!!!Don’t forget to watch an IMAX movie in the dome theater!!! Check their show schedule online before you go!!!
Excellent experience! Loved the Body Worlds Decoded exhibit! The museum was definitely designed for kids in mind! There was a bunch of hands on things to get kids engaged in learning! Everything from the senses, coding, robotics, space, and animals (movies on the pandas and sharks). And a microbiology area where you make your own glow in the dark bacteria with different colors that they record!
We brought our 9 year old daughter here for a weekend field trip and we were so impressed with how engaging and interesting the museum was! Our daughter was totally in to the engineer testing & robot making, but there was so much else to see and do! We needed more time in the day and are considering a membership! My husband and I really enjoyed the Bodies display and found it extremely interesting, however it was a little too graphic for our daughter who thought it was kinda gross. Overall it was an excellent experience and I highly recommend it for the curious child and parents alike!
It was my first time going and let me just say so disappointed. I expected it to be an amazing experience because so many people told me it was, but it was not for me. Now I went to see a new movie there, maybe the experience is different when you watch a nature documentary? The screen is so blurry it made my head hurt, that never happens when I go to the theaters and I do go quite often. But this was just my experience, I would say try it out maybe it’s different for you.
Great place to bring your kids. Most suited to youth and teens. Having said that, this middle-aged guy and 18 year-old son were fascinated by several of the exhibits and interactive activities. Location is downtown just off of Cesar Chavez Plaza. We parked at the convention center to the south. The Tech Interactive will provide you a validation that lets you check out of the parking garage with a $5 charge. Living outside of CA I learned a lot from the seismology exhibits.
I grew up in Washington, D.C. where museums are everywhere (Smithsonian, Spy Museum, FBI, etc). Its nice to go to a museum thats in the Silicon Valley area, great for families and visitors. The latest exhibit, Body Worlds Decoded, is phenomenal. Using interactive technologies, you are provided with a tablet and can interact with the exhibits. Go through an eye to see the inner workings, check out how the digestive system works - see your own skeleton move before your very eyes. Kids of all ages will be amazed. This is the future for museums - letting the visitor be engaged in a new reality!
I’m conflicted on this place. First off, the price is too steep for what you get. $25 for adults! I went solo and quickly learned that this place is geared towards children. There was nothing of interest on the bottom floor, so I quickly walked through and then made my way to the top floor. The highlight of my visit was the “Body Worlds Decoded” exhibit. You can check out a tablet which provides 3D viewings of various parts of the body. Using the heart as an example, I was able to walk around it and see it from every angle. The exhibit uses human skeletons, which was interesting. I learned so much and was able to see what healthy organs looked like as opposed to unhealthy organs. Other than this exhibit, I didn’t see anything else worth spending my time on. Worth noting, the museum has a gift shop and café that you can visit as well.
Fantastic place to visit multiple times with kids and spend the whole day. IMAX theatre is super good with amazing sound, good shows. Body world (real body parts or fully body with plastination) section is extraordinary. Lower level has some good set of robotics and space which is must see and experience.
There was a lot of cool stuff. Maybe I expected more for grown ups, but it was nice for the kids.
Like the Exploratorium in San Francisco. All of the exhibits are hands on and gives you the opportunity to try STEM and motion activities. Being there is as much fun for both school age kids and adults. There is a virtual reality flight simulator, earthquake simulator, coding stations, hands on building area, a outer space area, and a IMAX Movie Theater.Can get really busy during the school year and on weekends. There is a $5 2 hr parking validation at 3 downtown garages and the VTA does stops in front.
The exhibits and interactive activities are unique and really nicely done. Very impressed by what theyve put together, you can tell this museum has a lot of local talent to pull from in the silicon valley. Admission was reasonable and staff were friendly. I think anyone from elementary-aged kids through curious adults will find plenty to do here.
Here is not the normal attraction for travelers visiting San Jose first time. But i truly recommend any of you coming here to experience the tech devices as well as exploring the secrets of the human body! It is a good and casual place for family to take children here learning as a scientist haha...For students, if you just visit the galleries then you just need to pay $19.It is absolutely a good place for you to visit!
Incredible hands on experience. From the jet pack exploration, earthquake simulation, an incredible, interactive, multi-media experience through human body, hands on with bugs, building, computers, cells and more. After 4+ hours, my kids wanted more time in the museum.
Really nice museum about technologie. If you have kids, nice place to visit with them.
Fun for everyone, bodies exhibit was fascinating. Take the whole family 😁
We learn a lot while playing and strolling though the rooms. Plenty of parking around. Allocation at least 3 hours to visit all the rooms.
I really enjoyed it! It was also not very crowded!
Loved the place, kool place to hand around in a group or as an individual. The volunteers were really helpful. The location of this place is in the heart of downtown so getting parking might be a challenge.
My son actually went to this traction, and according to him it was great. He ranted about the human body parts it displayed, the rocket technology they used to get in space, and robots they had in display, wish I would have went. (My son is 10yrs old, he went on a school field trip and these are pics he took)
Interesting place to visit with family. Not suitable for too little children. Depends of the child but I would not go there with child under 5 years old.Lot of interactive content. Also possibility to build things like crane or catapult and then test how it works.There are many simulation stations like earthquake, tornado bubble, yoga breething and flying and many more. I loved the most earthquake and flying stimulators(using flying stimulator is for extra fee). Quite real feeling on both. Most of action stations have instructors who assist you if need and tell you more about the station subject.So when you leave the place you have more kowledge, experience and you are feel also entertained.Place has also science shop you can buy various science themed items.
Ive always enjoyed The Tech, but now it is a million times better. Now Body Worlds Decoded is free with admission. There are way more interactive stations than there were before. Even though today was Free Museum Day, there was still plenty of room for everyone even though there were a lot of people in there. There were multiple IMAX movies available to watch instead of just one. They had a lot of staff available to answer questions and to teach about the exhibits. The bathrooms were immaculate. The Tech Store seems bigger, as does the cafe. I love the fact that the moon scale tells me that I weigh 20 pounds! Even though the line was wrapped around the corner, we all got in very quickly.
TONS of things to fascinated yourself with. There should be something for everyone. The entrance fee is rather cheap for all the things you can do there, and there are a few stations where you can opt into extended technological experiences (one of them was a EEG measurement tool that would track different characteriatics and give you a more detailed breakdown after 30 minutes).The Body World portion was a little much for me at times; the full-bodies were very up-close and personal and made me squeemish. Other displays were highly informative and quite cool!
The Tech Interactive is a family-friendly interactive science and technology centre. It is a Silicon Valley landmark for visitors seeking a glimpse of the innovative place.If you are going here - you have to understand - its still a childrens interactive museum. Designed to instill love and respect for science. Adults will be interested in virtual reality. Especially $ 8 flight simulator. Hes worth it.The IMAX cinema was also particularly struck, where you really feel in the city of new technologies.I really liked the exhibition of the human body, it was exciting and breathtaking. All these bodies are real people who gave their bodies after death for scientific purposes. It was awesome.The entrance fee to the museum is 25 dollars for an adult.#familyfriendly #sanjose #localguides #letsguide #thetech
I thought that the museum was really fun because it was very interactive and hands-on. A lot of the technology was pretty advanced, and I found it interesting how the museum used forms of technology to enhance their teaching methods to younger audiences. I participated in the lab to extract color and make dyes, and I got to put on the monitor that sensed my feelings, personality, and emotions. It was an overall fun experience and I was able to learn a lot!
The latte is good but too hot, so be careful.The pop corns are amazing!The staff is super nice and helpful. The place is always clean even thought there are a bunch pf kids thereGreat location with close by public parking
Good museum for learning science, the building not so big but the demo to simulate the science is a lot, at least you can spend 4 hours to try it all.
This museum was right down the road from my hotel, easy to walk to. I skipped the imax and looked exclusively at the exhibits. You can tell the museum is geared towards children, activities everywhere! Definitely a place to take kids to learn and explore. I appreciated the coffee I bought from their café area.
Imaxes are great. The museum is for younger kids.
People who worked there were friendly and very interactive. Had a few cool things for even adults but this museum is more for kids. Very hands on. Had fun there though. Excited to see the area that is under construction... will have to be back for that
The exhibits on space and human body are very useful and informative to children. The Imax dome theatre experience was excellent. Theres lots of info on innovations in medical field related to technology.
Good place for young kids. It has 3 levels to explore. Huge space inside.
Explore VR and Bio design lab! Also experience flying at the museum! Loved every bit of it. Typically it will take you 3+ hrs to go through...
A smaller museum than the usual science/technology and natural science museums. But most exhibits are interactive and are geared toward offer kids. Overall, a novel kinds of place and its fun.
Fantastic. Next generation type of museum - you are looking into the future instead of the past. A privilege for the families that live in that area. In particular, we enjoyed building in the Social Robots.
The has a lot of interactive stands. Most of thectime youll have to scan your ticket to start the play. There are lots of plays for children. On the second floor there is a human parts exhibition that features real human parts.
Not a bad place to spend 3 hours with kids.
Loved this place (Body World)!! Friends and I spent 2 hours there. I would go there again!
5th grade field trip. Most of the kids loved it and learned a lot. Well worth coming along as a chaperone. The place is easy to find, but parking garages are a few blocks away.
Maybe interesting for students, but doesn’t worth the ticket price for adults
It was amazing! The best place to go with your children. A lot of brainstorms for them. Place where everybody could find something new for them. General admission for adult is $24. You have at downstairs and upstairs the museum. On the main level you’ll find a souvenir store. After you’ll leave recommend to visit their store. I had couple interesting hours!
Ticket price is very much. So please dont waste your money.
A great tech museum located in the heart of Silicon Valley! Amazing interactive exhibitions: great for kids to spark their interest in and learn more STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) through different “games”! Even for adults, it is so much fun to visit!
Great museum and itd free for the military.
A different experience, lot of interactive exhibits, engaging and informative. Bacteria colonies and DNA experiments were awesome. Body world is one of its kind.
This place was so much fun cant wait to come back and see an I MAX movie
The Body Worlds exhibit was fantastic! The other exhibits were also great, but that was my favorite. Very informative and hands-on. Great place for people of all ages.Went in the middle of the day on a Monday, so there was no crowd at all. I believe ticket were $25 for admission to exhibits only, additional if you want to see IMAX
This place is a must visit for children or even adults! They share a lot of tech knowledge and body worlds. Real bodies inside the body worlds exhibit.
Good for kids and adults of all ages. It has to visit with time, has many interactive activities, minimum 3 hours of visit to know all the rooms. excellent tour.
Pretty below expectation. Seems overpriced for what i get.
Three floors of great interactive displays, stations where you can do interactive experiments. Design your own roller coaster then ride in a virtual coaster with your creation one the big screen in-front of you. Design your own cells and program their behavior, then sent them in to the pool of other cells and watch how they interact. float in a astronaut jet pack aiming for targets to line up with. Experience historic earthquakes on a large shake table with friends. play with solar power, wind energy, human powered generator, etc. Too much to see in one day. Convenient parking lots with in two blocks either side of the museum. $5 discount on your parking too.
Pretty awesome place. The human body exhibit is definitely the star of the show but it might be a little disturbing for some young people. Lots of interactive stuff for kids to do.
Got free tickets through “Museums on Us” promotion from BofA. It was a great experience and had a quality time. It would take easily 3-4 hours to cover up all floors. Earthquake simulator, jet simulator are my favorites.
Great place for the whole family to spend day out, nice movie selection, fine little shop to grab a bite, waaaay overpriced gift shop.
Definitely coming back!! I had the best time there.
This place is very nice and interactive. However, as an adult, I felt lost in a museum rather children oriented. A better trade off between kids education and adult discovery could be found.Take the time to read all information in order to make the best of your tour.
Lots of hands on projects, i like the human body images, all kinds of ways to display and compare, pretty educational.
Not really my thing, but my parent is a true computer Geek!!! He absolutely loved every minute of it. I bought a cool t shirt
I love this place. Gets better every time I go. Wish they would bring back the monthly evening event...
Many technical program,but feel ticket price a little high
Lots of fun for kids and adults. We caught the anatomy exhibit. Fascinating! A must-do in San Jose!
Imax was so worth it! It is literally a whole dome.movie theatre! We checked out the Body Exhibits and got to participate in many of the activities which was super fun!Only sad thing is a lot of the displays on the lower level were either closed, not working, or missing a lot of parts. I remember it having so many interesting exhibits.The upper level was amazing though - so many fun activities!Definitely worth the trip downtown!
This is the perfect museum for Silicon Valley and it is AWESOME! Definitely a must see in San Jose, for visitors and residents alike. There are so many innovative, interactive exhibits. Its definitely fun for all ages! Not just kids or adults. Everyone! The dome IMAX is not to be missed. Its such a unique experience to have your entire field of vision filled by insane visuals. It doesnt matter what you see, its going to be good!! The Bodies exhibit is suuuuuper interesting!! So cool to be able to see that! Do yourself a favor and spend the day here!
Took kids from AFE Global Issues class to the Youth Climate Action Summit. Hats off to all the student organizers from around the Bay Area.
Nice place to visualize science
Hands on STEM, great activities for all ages and levels. Wonderful opportunity to share time together and create memories.
The AR anatomy experience blew me away! recommend this any science nerds!
Nice museum with lots of different activities, but mostly for kids
Amazing museum! A great visit for all ages. I love how interactive most exhibits are; the hands-on approach is one of the best ways to pique interest, learn something new, and have it stick with you for a long time!
Great place for kids and adults to encounter science. Well provisioned with home
Great place to go if you are visiting San Jose!
Great place to take the grandkids.
If you are a tech freak, it is a must go when you are in San Jose
More hands on, interactive and get you to do things than read and look. Didnt have much, lots of machines occupied. IMAX theatre was large, however the movie was shown at a terrible angle where you had to bend your neck almost at 180 degrees, and you could only watch 1/3 of the screen at a time. Gift shop has a decent amount of items and priced a bit higher than normal.
An amazing human body exhibition. Loved it
This museum was amazing. There were two levels full of innovate, interactive exhibits. They integrated augmented reality by having augmented exhibits only visible through a tablet. I was especially fascinated by the body works exhibit. All the models were made with real human body parts. The cafe was also great. The food came at a good price for a museum and it was delicious.
Very fun!! Went specifically for the Body Exhibit, and was a little disappointed that it was pretty much just two rooms. That being said, I was still there from noon to closing at 5pm and didn’t even do everything. Most exhibits are geared towards children, but if you like learning it’s equally enjoyable!
Its pretty cool in here, i came for body worlds and that was quite a sight. You learn a lot here and theres plenty of interactive things to do around.
Amazing experience. Birdly is just awesome
Hmm. I guess to start off it was more kid friendly than I thought. I only bought the general admission for the exhibit which was 25 dollars I believe. They have a exhibit plus IMAX combo that is 30 something dollars which gives you access to their IMAX videos which the clerk explained was 45 minute educational videos. I saw showing for Captain Marvel as well but Im not sure if that would he included. The exhibits were interesting and were mostly hands on. There are two levels: the top level had little to no hands on activities but had presentations about the human body, robotics, and things about how technology is shaping certain parts of the world. The bottom level had all the activities if you wanted to build your own robot to things such as learning about internet security. The exhibit was fun in the sense that it gives kids or even adults a good introduction into certain parts of technology and even the human body. Overall this is a family-friendly, educational museum with a great amount of hands on activities for all ages.
Awesome place to visit and let your mind wonder. I highly recommend it for families.
Great place to bring kids to explore and apply science to problem solving. Awesome dome IMAX theater.
Ate a fat edible and had a great time. Lots for kids for plenty for all ages.
- Address:201 S Market St, San Jose, CA 95113, United States
- Site:http://www.thetech.org/
- Phone:+1 408-294-8324
- Museum
- Technology museum
- Monday:10AM–5PM
- Tuesday:10AM–5PM
- Wednesday:10AM–5PM
- Thursday:10AM–5PM
- Friday:10AM–5PM
- Saturday:10AM–5PM
- Sunday:10AM–5PM
- Wheelchair accessible elevator:Yes
- Wheelchair accessible entrance:Yes
- Wheelchair accessible parking lot:Yes
- Wheelchair accessible restroom:Yes
- Good for kids:Yes
- Restaurant:Yes