Plan Your Visit

Hours:

Tuesday - Saturday   10am - 4pm

Sunday   1pm - 4pm

CLOSED Mondays

Holiday hours :

Museum will be CLOSED

• Thanksgiving
• Christmas Eve, December 24th
• Christmas Day, December 25th
• December 26th
• New Years Day, January 1st
• January 2nd
• Easter
• Memorial Day

Museum will be OPEN

• December 27th thru December 31st 10am-4pm

• $6 per person
• Free to Museum members and children age 1 and UNDER

Directions:

From I-90, take I-79 North to the Bayfront Highway heading east. Turn right onto State Street. Turn left on East 4th Street.

Turn right on French Street. The Children's Museum will be on the right side.

Metered parking is available on both sides of French Street and on East 4th & 5th Streets.

There is a parking ramp available on East 2nd Street.            

Parking:

Metered parking is available on 5th Street, State Street and French Street. 

Weekends Only: 

On the weekends, Erie Insurance graciously allows us to use their lot directly across the street from the Museum. 

Places to Eat:

expERIEnce Children's Museum offers a small snack area inside the Museum (seats 10-12) where you can enjoy the lunch or snack you brought. 

We are also within walking distance to Perry Square, Erie's downtown park, where there are plenty of benches and open grass spaces              for sitting.

Restaurants within the city block are: Subway, Viva Pitas & Wraps, McDonalds, Pufferbelly Restaurant, French Street Cafe,                             Steel 12 Pizza, Khao Thai, Hook's Catfish Kitchen, UPick6 Taphouse and Molly Brannigan’s.