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Amazement Square

27 9th Street, Lynchburg, VA 24504, USA
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(434) 845-1888
Hours:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 1:00 – 5:00 PM
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Amazement Square is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary, hands-on museum, and Virginia’s first museum to be a Certified Autism Center (CAC) located in historic Downtown Lynchburg, Virginia. The museum offers four floors of hands-on, interactive exhibits designed to make learning fun. At Amazement Square, we believe that creative play is one of the most important ways children learn and grow! Guests of all ages can paint on the walls, explore life on the farm, create a rainstorm over downtown Lynchburg, float a boat down the James River, and even rock out on stage in a band of your own! Right in the center of the historic building is the Amazement Tower, the indoor play structure extends through all four floors of the museum offering an endless maze of slides, ladders, tunnels and a zip-line!

Named one of Central Virginia’s favorite family spots, the Museum serves more than 90,000 people through general admission, school programs, outreach activities, workshops, and other special events each year representing guests from all 50 states

See why you should visit Lynchburg’s National Medal-winning children’s museum:

27 9th Street, Lynchburg, VA 24504, USA
Google Rating
4.6
Amazement Square
Amazement Square
4.6
William McGann
William McGann
17:31 10 Jun 18
My kids love going and interacting with the exhibits, and always learn something while there. The staff are extremely helpful and seem genuinely interested in providing a fun learning experience for children. There are intermittent issues with the reliability of some of the exhibits, but nothing beyond what would be expected with many children constantly playing with them.
Rebekah Hunter
Rebekah Hunter
02:17 05 Jun 18
It is a fun place for kids, big or small. Some of the exhibits I think are neat and well done (the waterworks exhibit with ships and canals, etc; the crane exhibit where you can replace the steeples on two churches; ones on native American life). Others are a bit mediocre, or (in my opinion) don't teach the kids as much. To be fair, exhibits do change, and overall I think they've done a great job. Plenty of kids and parents seem to think it well worth the time and money; it's always pretty full. As always, parental guidance can make a lot or a little out of the experience.
Joshua Allen
Joshua Allen
15:38 14 May 18
Stellar place to take the kids! Cool spot in downtown with some family-friendly eats nearby, as well as a walking park and river front. Amazement Square does a lot of great events and community events, but just a normal day holds tons of fun and learning experiences. Paint the walls, climb a tower indoors, slide back down to the bottom, play and explore different centuries. All ages - it's great!
Melanie Seibert
Melanie Seibert
16:08 18 Apr 18
Great fun! We've taken 2 class field trips to Amazement Square, and both were incredible. There are lots of fun things for kids to do. Mine are 8 and 10 and they spent hours climbing and interacting with the exhibits. Their favorite part was crawling in the tubes. The staff is also super friendly. I hope to return soon with my other kids!
Stephanie Bartlett
Stephanie Bartlett
19:18 16 Mar 18
This place has been named exactly what it should be named! I absolutely was amazed by everything in this place. My kids and I had a blast exploring every single book and cranny of every single floor of this place even all the way up into the tower to look out over the James river! This place, as I said before, (and my kids are DEFINITELY in agreement) is AMAZING!! You have got to see Amazement Square for yourself to really get to appreciate the truly amazing wonder that it is. Don't pass it off! You and your kids will be so happy that you decided to go!
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