I went to Summer Saturday Tea at this house a couple of weeks ago. English black tea was served on…read morethe back porch, with scrumptious desserts available for order and a lovely band playing music. It's a splendid summer experience! I highly recommend stopping in and checking out the calendar - you can see which bands are playing which Summer Saturdays and pick one! I had to get a couple of refills of the tea since the pots were so small, but it was delicious!

Great old house with lots of history and beautiful grounds. Tour guides were very knowledgable and…read moreso helpful. Would highly recommend a visit

If you are in the Hatfield area and you're interested in local history this is the place to go!…read more The museum , which is located on the second floor of the town library, has a wonderfully curated collection of local historical items. In particular they have a very nice collection of civil war items, nineteen and early twentieth century housewares, and medical tools from the early twentieth century. And if you're in the area in the summer be sure to also visit the Hatfield Farm Museum which is located behind the building.

Small museum with lots of information. This place made me reminisce my younger years. Meaning a…read morelong time ago in a galaxy far .... But It was a time well spent. If you are in Holyoke, MA it won't hurt to visit and learn about a sport that is just too awesome.

The only reason I knew this place existed is because I was somewhat of a volleyball nerd growing…read moreup, and retained the fact that volleyball was invented in Holyoke, MA after some research for a jr. high oral report on volleyball. Visiting Boston for the first time, my husband and I took a side trip to Springfield for the Basketball Hall of Fame, and I randomly remembered Holyoke. Looked it up, and it was just a 20-min. Uber ride to Holyoke from Springfield. Holyoke itself is a small town. Driving through, I saw a lot of abandoned factories/warehouses. It looks like a quiet place. I'm glad that volleyball, while being more popular in the west coast and globally, chose to keep some roots in the city that invented it. (Side question: does the FIVB put anything into this HOF?) My husband and I were the only visitors during our time there. It took about an hour to go thoroughly through EVERYTHING. The HOF shares a building with the children's museum. There is an admission fee of $8 for adults, and there are varying discounts I can't remember. It's a museum with several displays - a history of volleyball (including sister sports beach/sitting), display boxes for each member of the current class of inductees, biography displays of recent inductees, a video that plays when prompted (on a CRT TV - come one guys, you can at least upgrade that!), half a volleyball court with net set-up from the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, info boards on notable players like Karch Kiraly and Flo Hyman, and different paraphernalia (my fave - a 1984 Olympic game ball from the men's gold medal game). There is a small store with t-shirts, sweaters, mugs, stickers, etc. I think the place could use a little more updating. It looks like it got stuck in the 90's, but I was glad I got to see this little gem. I think it's worth the trip (from Boston) if you're a hard core volleyball fan.

update?: I remember scanning the badge after waiting in what is apparently now called the overflow…read moreline. Is the time spent in each line being tracked? When I first went many years ago, there were no badges back then, so I don't see how management could know that the wait was *never* that long. I gave it a more positive review 6 years ago for being unique - that's why I wanted to go again, but it didn't hit the same the second time... perhaps I expected more to change over half a decade. For being so dependent on story telling, the little videos throughout the haunt have terrible audio quality. This is one of 10 haunts I visited this year, the lack of jump scares isn't the issue.

Horrible very noisy , waste of time haunt. The review that mentions waiting for hours in two…read moredifferent rooms is very true. We waited in the smaller room for 2 hours. The haunt prides it self on making people wait for 5 hours! It did not flow at all. You spent more time waiting for doors to Open then anything else. They made sure you didn't see any other group. Not scary at all. The scary part was waiting in line. You could not move forward until you watched a video in every other room. Hardly any actors in the haunt. I wish I could get a refund for this horrible experience. The worst haunt I have ever been too.

The Beneski Museum of Natural History is on the Amherst College campus and is one of those smaller…read moremuseums that consistently surprises visitors who arrive without strong expectations. We walked into a building that is modern and elegantly designed, spotlessly maintained, and organized in a way that made navigation intuitive across the three floors. The collection spans three floors and covers fossils, dinosaur skeletons, mineral and gemstone specimens, and an extensive dinosaur track collection with particular connections to the Connecticut River Valley, which produced some of the most significant dinosaur trackways in North America. The dinosaur material is the centerpiece. Two full mammoth skeletons, a T. rex skull, and a range of other fossil specimens give the collection a visual impact that larger natural history museums with more resources and more famous specimens would be proud to have. The dinosaur tracks are a specific strength and the connection to local geology adds a regional dimension that makes the collection feel distinct rather than generic. Staff and professors associated with the collection were present and willing to answer questions in depth, which gave our visit a more engaged quality than a self guided tour at a larger institution typically offers. The museum is free and open to the public, which makes it an easy addition to any visit to the Amherst area without any planning required. For a small college museum that delivers a world class fossil collection in a beautiful modern space, the Beneski Museum of Natural History is a hidden gem in western Massachusetts and well worth a stop. It is the kind of place where you go in for a quick look and end up spending an hour without realizing it.

This place is about as awesome as it gets. I took my 8 year old son and my 70 year old mother, and…read morewe all had a great time walking around the three levels. The staff was very friendly, and my son was super happy to chat them up about the different things on display, and share what he knew with them. We spent about two hours, and we could easily head back again.

Place was A-OK. Plenty of parking, which I always appreciate, nice space inside, good instructions…read moreand game cards of different variations, decent selection of canned drinks available, and a few other table games to keep you entertained when it's not your turn. I'd keep this place in mind if you'll be in the area and are looking for something to do.

It was A lot of fun & something New to do. The environment was relax & calm , We played around @…read morefirst just being silly . Some good photo oups with the gang too Everybody had a great time, We will be looking forward to our next together. Will definitely be doing this again. To others come & enjoy . It's Cool & competitive.

As a WNBA fan, and lifelong basketball fan, I was blown away by the level of respect the Hall of…read moreFame gives to women athletes. Coming in, I was expecting for the building to focus on predominantly male athletes and get some tidbits of the women's game here and there. Because that's usually how it goes. Instead, I got a pretty large selection of content. In the historical section, which I was most interested in, there were so many artifacts from the women's teams, I could have spent hours there alone. The games and videos and promotional material all highlighted women beyond tokenism too. In most cases, for every highlight of a man, there was a highlight of a woman. Even the little things like the disposable inserts of the frames they were selling at the gift shop- had several women incorporated. And the gift shop wasn't segregated with a WNBA corner like every other basketball store I've ever been in, it was dispersed throughout the store. There was less W merch, but there was still a more meaningful selection than usual. I'd love to see an exhibition for a female player soon the way they have an exhibition for Steph rn. And there was great disability representation. The building itself is accessible with an elevator, spacious aisles, captions on all videos, large bathrooms with the more than one accessible stall. The museum is so impressively interactive, too. I would come back again and again. There are two main floors of content and a third bottom floor that is a basketball court. As a slow museum reader it took me 3 hours to get through. There is a Subway and a nicer tavern restaurant right in the building on either entrance. There is a Pizzeria UNO's in the same plaza as well.

As a basketball fan, stepping into the history of the sport I love was an amazing experience. From…read morethe legendary players and unforgettable moments to the incredible memorabilia, every exhibit reminded me why I fell in love with basketball. It was also really cool to see kids playing in a tournament on the court inside the museum. Watching the next generation enjoy the game in a place that honors basketball's greatest legends made the experience even more special. My only disappointment was the gift shop. I was expecting a much bigger selection of merchandise, especially for a place that celebrates the game's greatest players and moments. I left wishing there were more unique items to choose from. Overall, it's a must-visit for any basketball fan.

The only thing worth seeing in this museum was the poison dart frogs. Everything else was…read morereplicas, hardly anything was original except for the gems. It just felt old and not much to see compared to other science museums I've been in. This wasn't really on my list. I wanted to see the Dr. Seuss museum but you had to buy general admission for all the museums in the complex and the ticket booth happened to be located in the science museum.

We came from out of town for a nice stroll though the museums with our toddler but only hit two:…read morethe Science museum and the Dr. Suess museum. Both were well done, though obviously there is nothing else that can compare with the Dr. Suess museum. The Science museum was fun, and I loved the life size dinosaur and the animal exhibits on the ground floor including the dozens of pull-out drawers containing shells, bones, insects, etc. It is a shame part of the lower level was closed for repairs, but what can you do? We tried many of the buttons and exhibits but they either weren't plugged in or didn't work. That was a bit disappointing. We never even saw all of this museum, or much of the other museums included with admission. For $25 if you can see everything it is probably a good deal, but if you only want to go to part of it (or if you or your kid get tired or bored part way) it might not be such a good value.