Activities for Kids

15 Epic Museums Worth Planning a Vaycay Around

With museums like these, amusement parks are getting a serious run for their money. Check out our favorites.

By Tinybeans Team March 22, 2017

Disneyland and LEGOLAND will no doubt be on the vacation wish list, but we’re here to tell you the following museums are giving amusement parks a serious run for their money. From tiny towns to giant locomotives, your kiddos will be begging to stay another day. Click through the gallery below to learn about our favorite spots from across the country.

California State Railroad Museum

Little (and big) conductors will go crazy over the immaculately restored engines and rolling stock that accompany rotating exhibits about life along California railways at this Sacramento museum. 19 steam locomotives dating from 1862 to 1944 are on premises—though not always displayed at once—and are guaranteed to blow your kiddo's smokestack. But the fun doesn't stop with the engines. You'll find passenger and freight trains, and a fleet of maintenance-of-way cars that include cranes, scale test cars, tool and outfit cars, flangers, snowplows, dynamometer cars, and a fire truck on rails.

25 I Street
Sacramento, Ca 95814
916-323-9280
Online: californiarailroad.museum

Photo: Chuck Taylor. via flickr