A month ago the Museum of Ice Cream announced its summer ticket sales on Instagram and Facebook. We really wanted to go to this pop up museum since we loved the Color Factory so much! The San Francisco location opened up in September. They also have three other locations in Los Angeles, New York and one in Miami that just opened up in December. This museum is set up in a similar fashion to The Color Factory but less interactive and it included a lot of fun treats to eat throughout the tour of the museum. When you arrive they have you line up by group for your time slot. They keep your group together throughout the museum tour.
When you first walk in they give you instructions on how you tour the museum. The first stop is the Ice Cream Shop where you get to sample all of their current ice cream flavors. The flavors to choose from are "Sprinkle Pool, Piñata, Cherrylicious, and Vanillonare". We tried Sprinkle Pool and Piñata. Piñata was the better of the two. It has broken Mothers animal cookies inside of it with vanilla ice cream. Starting on July 8, 2018 and running through December 2018 they will be selling pints of "Museum of Ice Cream" in Target stores with more flavors such as Churro Churro and Chocolate Crush.
After your ice cream tasting you wait in line for the "Sprinkle Pool". They only allow so many people at a time for the pool since it is rather small. As you are waiting in line you get to swing on three different swings and take photos. The first swing is in a small room filled with cans of whipped cream. It was our favorite room. The next swing room has you sitting on a big Neapolitan ice cream sandwich shaped swing in a striped Neapolitan colored room. The last was a Banana Split swing room with pink banana balloons suspended from the celling.
The next part is the "Sprinkle Pool" room, which has a small pool filled with 100 million plastic sprinkles and pool inner tubes. They have lockers were you place your belongings. You then get a time limit to submerge yourself in the pool full of sprinkles. We had fun playing in the pool and taking pictures. When your time is up you go into the sprinkle shower to blow them all off. That was a....blast! They added the sprinkle shower because the plastic sprinkles have been tracked onto city streets and sidewalks after people leave the museum. The museum was fined for this since it was getting into the storm drains.
After the "Sprinkle Pool and Shower" your are lead into another part of the museum. You first start with the fun wheel and spin to find out your fortune. Following the wheel you get to do a "Whip-N-Toss" where you toss plastic rings onto cans of whipped cream. Then you get a prize of a package of "Pop Rocks" afterward. Then you move into the "Marye's Diner" where you get to try the Cherrylicious ice cream in a cone at the ice cream counter.
Moving on from the "Marye's Diner" is the the "Make a Statement What Do You Scream For?" room, where you can spell out what you scream for with magnetic letters. We had fun playing with the letters in this room.
The next room is the "Cherry on Top" room. When you first walk in there is a guy that is making fresh cherry cotton candy by hand in a machine. We thought it was the best cotton candy we had ever had. Once you get your cotton candy you get to go into a magical room of fluffy clouds and cherry's suspended from the celling. We both really loved this whole section of the museum, lots of fun!
The next magical room was the "Gummy Bear" room, which is so bright and cheery. We also had fun taking photos with all of our new gummy bear friends.
From gummy bears you move onto the "Carnival Room" were you get to ride two different animal cookie friends by just a push of a button. We both had a blast in this room. It is very cute!
After the carnival fun you get to choose form the "La Michoacana Paletas" popsicles. There are lime, pineapple, strawberry, mango and coconut flavors to chose from. We both chose lime, which we enjoyed in the rainbow area with the fun unicorns "Harvey Milk" and "Gloria Steinem" and took photos. Love how bright and cheery this room is.
While we were in the "Unicorn Rainbow Room" we noticed two small colorful doors that you have to crawl through. We discovered this tiny craw space that was filled with mosaic mirrors and my son hung out in there for a bit checking himself out.
After checking the mirrors is the last room, the "Mint Life Room", where you are in a jungle of mint leaves and you are served mint chocolate Mochi ice cream balls.
You then end up in the "Museum of Ice Cream gift shop", which is filled with fun enamel pins, books, jewelry, tote bags, apparel, etc., mostly all in pink.
We had such a great day in San Francisco and at the Museum of Ice Cream. We actually came home with sprinkles in our socks and shoes even though we air blowed ourselves to be sprinkle free. We added our sprinkle souvenirs to out little wooden box filled with confetti from the Color Factory as a happy memory of our fun day!
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