text: When the weather gets hot in Phoenix, this is one of the places where Phoenix residents come to cool off.   The family and I visited the museum on hot summer Saturday in the middle of July.  The line was long to get in the science center and not enough people working there to sell tickets to get us inside.  After a 30 minute wait, we finally got in.  \n\nChildren can play in the water and get each other wet at Waterworks.   Or, they can work with pipes to see how water flows.  The daughter was able to learn different things about the body.  She was able to listen to her heartbeat to the beat of drum.  She was also able to throw round balls into a nose to cause it sneeze and expel the balls back at you.  My wife did not allow the child to ride the Skycycle.  She thought it was too dangerous, not to mention the extra fee involved to ride it.  Tornado Alley was interesting with the fans that blow the wind at you, and the sprinklers that rain on you.  \n\nIt seems like some of these exhibits travel from museum to museum.  Both the Sesame Street Body exhibit and the Skycycle exhibits have recently been in Southern California.  I didn't have to come all the way to Phoenix to see these exhibits.  \n\nOverall, I thought the museum was okay.   There were some things that were different from other science museums.   But, not enough to warrant the $15 for adults and $11 for children, not even for the air conditioning inside.