# The Imaginarium in Nashville, TN??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 4, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imaginarium-in-nashville-tn/85392 "2001-10-04T15:40:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![H8\_2\_W8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c77e96/32.png) [@H8\_2\_W8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H8_2_W8)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imaginarium-in-nashville-tn/85392/1 "2001-10-04T15:40:01Z")
I cannot find a website for this place no matter what I do. Has anyone been there with the kids and what did you think? (My wife and 2 year old may go with me to Nashville when I go in November for some business training, but their going with me may be dictated by the availability of fun-kid-things-to-do for a couple days.) (FYI - It sounds like an interactive-museum-activity area for kids, but I can’t find anything more than brief text descriptions of the place. [imaginarium.org](http://imaginarium.org) is for a place in Alaska which doesn’t mention the one in TN) Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imaginarium-in-nashville-tn/85392/2 "2001-10-04T16:21:42Z")
Here’s a link… [http://www.thefamilytravelfiles.com/ezine/articles/102.asp](http://www.thefamilytravelfiles.com/ezine/articles/102.asp) ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imaginarium-in-nashville-tn/85392/3 "2001-10-04T17:47:15Z")
[Here](http://cumbscimuseum.citysearch.com/) is another place just like it, only better. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imaginarium-in-nashville-tn/85392/4 "2001-10-04T18:01:35Z")
I’m surprised that there haven’t been any legal battles over the name “[Imaginarium](http://www206.toysrus.com/corporate_info/imag/img_corp_about.cfm)”. Toys “R” Us owns the Imaginarium chain of toystores, and [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), in partnership with Toys “R” Us, plans to launch [imaginarium.com](http://writenews.com/2001/080101_imaginarium.htm). Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imaginarium-in-nashville-tn/85392/5 "2001-10-04T18:29:31Z")
I clicked on this thread cuz I actually work @ Imaginarium, and I know we don’t have a store in Tennessee… just passing through then. BTW, the website partnership launched about 6 weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imaginarium-in-nashville-tn/85392/6 "2001-10-04T18:42:53Z")
So it did. I bothered to go there _after_ I’d posted the link. Silly me. ---
**Author:** ![H8\_2\_W8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c77e96/32.png) [@H8\_2\_W8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H8_2_W8)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imaginarium-in-nashville-tn/85392/7 "2001-10-04T19:24:11Z")
xizor - have you been to both places? The Imaginarium originally attracted my attention because I had read the link Reeder provided while trying to find a web page on this thing and it seemed to suggest that the Imaginarium was designed for toddlers and pre-schoolers. The science museum looks like it may have many things for older kids and maybe not as much for the little ones. Again, my son just turned 2 six weeks ago, and I’m sure he’d like Rat Basketball, but maybe the other would be better because it would offer more for his age group (?). ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imaginarium-in-nashville-tn/85392/8 "2001-10-04T21:48:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by H8\_2\_W8 \* > \*\*xizor - have you been to both places?. \*\* Yes, and while neither is the greatest Museum I’ve ever been to, I’d give a slight advantage to the science museum in the categories of lower price, less commercialism, and more educational. While the nod for kids-are-too-young-to-care-about-science-and-just-want-to-play would go to the imaginarium. Side-note: Most toddlers will believe you if you show them the Bell South building and tell them Batman lives there. E-mail me if you want any other touristy info on Nashville. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-imaginarium-in-nashville-tn/85392/9 "2001-10-04T21:49:36Z")
If you have time and a car, I’d suggest [the Tennessee Aquarium](http://www.tennis.org/). It’s in Chattanooga so it’s an hour and a half to two hours away(and you lose an hour going). But with a two year old, you may not want to make the drive. There’s also [the zoo](http://www.nashvillezoo.org/). I never made it there when I lived in Nashville, so I can’t say how good it is. And I found this: > [@](#): > > The Imaginarium Children’s Adventure Museum of Nashville is the BEST place to take kids ages 2-10! They’ve got everything that kids love, from Dinosaurs to live animals of the rainforest, a fire station and hospital, art studio, theater with all sorts of costumes, a market, pizza kitchen, news and weather station and a whole lot more. The best part is that it’s all hands-on and interactive! Don’t miss this one!! [here](http://www.digitalcity.com/nashville/visitorsguide/reportpost.adp?aid=199&page=article.adp).