Top 10 Things to do Good for a Rainy Day in Springfield, Massachusetts (MA)

Established in early 2018, Springfield's Great Escape is an interactive, adventure place for the whole family; young adults and grown-ups alike. Our patrons become the actors in a real-to-life scenario themed adventure game. You are placed in a theater experience and given 60 minutes to use elements of the rooms to solve a series of puzzles, unlock props, find secret passage ways, activate hidden doors, locate hidden rooms and eventually make your escape...if time allows. Do you have what it takes to escape and make in onto our wall of fame? We pride ourselves on providing the ultimate team building exercise for business professionals as well as college students and young adults. Looking to book a birthday party? We can accommodate that as well. Feel free to stop in and check us out and ask for your free sneak peek! You won't be disappointed.

The story of the rebirth of Springfield’s Union Station was a 40-year saga that began with a promise to save a landmark that was teetering on the brink of extinction. On December 19, 1926, an estimated 30,000 people toured Opening Day of Union Station. The new facility with its gleaming terrazzo floors, had a restaurant, lunch counter, barbershop, shoeshine parlor and small shops to service hundreds of daily passengers who boarded up to 130 trains every 24 hours. The reconstruction of Union Station lasted four years and one month finishing in 2016. The great hall was gutted to the bare walls and rebuilt. The historic clock that hung at the entrance to the tunnel since the building opened, to a wooden train schedule board and 90-year-old baggage carts the original Terrazzo floors were all preserved. In addition to the train station there is an intermodal transportation center with local and long-distance buses, a new parking garage, office, retail and restaurant space.

The Armory, which manufactured and tested firearms for the U.S. military from 1794 to 1968, houses the country's largest collection of US military small weapons. The displays include rare weapons and the largest collection of confederate weapons anywhere. When it started, the Armory was the first high tech manufacturing to occur in the country, and the advancements in mass production and the ability to create interchangeable parts that started at the Armory, initiated the development of the countries first high tech manufacturing corridor.

The Springfield Museums, located in the heart of downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, is comprised of four world-class museums covering art, history, and science, plus the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden.

35,000-square-foot of fun.That's a lot of spring in a visitor's step. The indoor bounce house includes play areas and foam pits set aside for children under the age of five, huge swaths of trampolines for adults and older kids, trampolines set up with basketball courts, three trampoline dodge ball courts, another foam pit for older kids and two "extreme" rooms set up with trampoline agility and ob

Located in the town where basketball was invented, this 48,000-square-foot museum has three levels of exhibits on the history and heroes of the game and gives visitors a chance to participate in skill contests.

The MassMutual Center (formerly Springfield Civic Center) is a multi-purpose arena and convention center located in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts.