The Palm Beach Museum of Natural History - Wellington, Florida

Meg S.

Ann is truly a wealth of information. She needs to write a book! Or two! We went with three adults and two children (6yr & 2yr). The kids played with toys while running back and forth to listen to Ann. The adults, as Dino enthusiasts, found the tour to be exceptionally informative and we learned more in 2 hours than we have in years. May be better suited for older kids but our young ones kept busy just fine with the toys and digging for Dino fossils. Ann, if you read this, write a book and please send us a copy!! Thanks so much for a fun and informative afternoon.

Essmie F.

It is a small exhibit of personal collections.

Not to be thought of as a museum in grandeur or comparison to any renowned museums but a mini one room display of archaeological finds.

Employees were kind and informative.

Fun for small kids for sure, or if you cannot get to a larger display and your kids like dinosaurs

Charity N.

Fun experience for the kids to learn about dinosaurs and see some fossils. You could plan to be there for about an hour. It's a small exhibit, but the gentleman doing the tour was very engaging and interactive. There is colouring, digging up teeth, lego and toys for young kids. Overall, great experience.

Lindsey T.

Great small museum with a real triceratop skeleton. Toys for kids to play with while the parents take longer to read and look at the exhibits. Anne gave an amazing tour, highly recommend!

Mae

The storefront "museum" has a decent amount of material for being in a relatively small area, I had no issues with the exhibits themselves they were neat and informative. However what I did find issue with was with my self appointed tour guide who took it upon herself to give me an hour lecture without asking. Which I also would have loved had it been educational- but my tour guide presented me with wildly incorrect statements that directly contradicted what was written on the exhibits at times. Such claims included that T.rex could run at speeds of 60mph, triceratops could grow to over 50ft long (shoutout to the estimate size graph that was on display there that had triceratops length in the mid 20's ft), that the other display featured a "nanoraptor" (it said on the display it was a juvenile T.rex), claiming that crocodilians did not live alongside dinosaurs, not knowing that prehistoric birds existed while clumsily explaining the fact that birds are descendants of dinosaurs, etc, etc. I'm no expert in the field but a very dedicated hobbyist, so of course I am not going to try and correct staff who work there, but I left the museum frustrated and baffled at the level of misinformation being touted. I am sure that not everything was false, but I could no longer trust anything she said due to such glaring errors, and in turn the entire experience was ruined for me. Will certainly be making a point to never go back again.

Nancy S.

We thoroughly enjoyed our visit! Our son, who is an archaeology enthusiast, found the museum to be compact yet brimming with knowledge and insightful information. We are certainly eager for our next visit.

Alessandra R.

I had read all the reviews so I wasn't expecting a huge museum. After visiting it i think the "museum " label sounds misleading. I would call it a prehistory experience/exhibit with lecture. (Or similar)

I really like the concept of a place born to exhibit the owners' passion and their personal achievements. I also found the tour very informative and rich in content.

We were a group of 4 adults with 4 children: 18, 24 months, who didn't pay to enter, 4 and 5 years old.
The children had fun drawing and playing in the play area. While two adults could participate to the tour, the other two adults took care of the kids (there's a lot that the kids shouldn't be touching, and obviously that is to them the most attractive object. also, a lot is at child hand level. One adult MUST be with them all the time.

I was expecting to be able to choose the language the tour would be explained, but we weren't offered that option. As someone commented in a review the guided tour can be very long and tiring if what you hear is new. For this reason we asked our guide to interrupt it. We were all hungry and the children had had enough of waiting. They had expected to see dinosaur statues and they were confused.

I am giving 3 stars because I still find this place a great place to visit for dinasour passionate, but only if older than 5 (possibly 6?).

We really expected something more inclusive for the whole family. The two parents "babysitting" had no dinasour experience. The children's dinasour experience was playing with dinasour figurines, magnets, or coloring dinosaur prints; but it wasn't enough to leave them unattended, so that the parent could partecipate to the guided tour. I feel like they could get the same experience at home.

The best experience you can get is listening to the guide, if you don't have small children to look after or to chase around. I would recommend the tour for older kids and adults. But still, that is not enough to call this place MUSEUM.

Aviance S.

Although small, this place was filled with dino facts I'd never heard of! Our tour guide, Louis (?) was knowledgeable and animated in his delivery of paleontological history. We were the only ones there but then the place got crowded after 20 minutes.