Reviews of Alaska Museum of Science and Nature. (Museum) in Anchorage (Alaska).

Alaska Museum of Science and Nature

157 Reviews

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201 N Bragaw St, Anchorage, AK 99508, United States

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This place has a very good rate, they treat their customers well and you’ll feel welcome, super recommended

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Reviews of Alaska Museum of Science and Nature

Candace Mosteller

Great museum. My son whos 3 and me both loved it! Staff is super friendly. The place is very clean. Educational and fun. My son particularly enjoyed the dinosaur exhibits and the play pits. Service Dog friendly staff as well!

Risa Beth Lite

Super cute hands on life-sized museum with walk thru games for kids and information on every wall. From Dinosaur Age thru Ice Age! Doesn't take longer than an hr for an adult to do and is great for field trips!

Kaylyn Mitchell

I feel like this place is a hidden gem that not many people know about. You could spend hours here looking at everything and reading all the descriptions. Lots of fun here. This is the perfect place for birthday parties if you or your kids love dinosaurs!

The Adventurers

Really loved this place, small museaum but we a lot to see and learn. Nice gift shop with beautiful stones and fossils for sale. Free parking and only 8 dollars the entrance fee for adults and 6 for youth.

Rebecca Doty

This place has so many different items. Not overly priced. Great for a school visit, scout outing or just a trip with the family. Definitely recommended

Becca Hill

A neat place to spend a couple hours. Most things here are able to be touched which is great for hands on learning. In the back there's a whole kids are to play with bins of toys such as blocks, a dollhouse, puzzles, etc. And that is where the digging pits are. Socks are required to go into the dog pit but if you forget socks you can buy them for less than a dollar at the gift shop.

Rohn Anderson

Best museum in town. I have years and years of fond memories at this place. Highly recommend for anybody who stops through anchorage.

Dale McCord

Cool little place to check out, love the full size pterosaur? Inside and the murals are sweet.

Ali V

Really cool museum (small), has a lot of cool artifacts and mini exhibits, overall really well done. Not too expensive. You get what you pay for. Good experience for anyone visiting Alaska.

Laura Bartlett

First time there and my entire family enjoyed it. The staff was helpful and extremely friendly. It's great for people of all ages. Definitely recommend for a family learning experience.

Leigh Seipp

We love this,place. Lots of interesting things to see and the kids can actually touch things! There is also a well stocked play area for the kids that includes digging pits.

Amber

A small museum but worth the visit. It took us about an hour to go through the whole museum and we really learned alot about the history of Alaska. The staff was friendly and helpful.

Tiffany B

Today was the first time ever taking my kiddo there or going there myself. I was incredibly impressed! The space may not be the biggest but they fit SO many cool exhibits (most of which the kids are able to touch). My kiddo LOVED touching the mammoth tusk. The person working during our visit today was so incredibly nice, informative and made my kiddo feel extra special. Completing the scavenger hunt was fun, but the prize out of the chest made my kids day. Their gift shop had an awesome selection for dinosaur lovers, too! The entire place was super clean as well. We will definitely be paying a visit back, especially for the low admission costs.

Daniel Hannah

This is a wonderful little museum, and unfortunately a bit of a secret. I’ve driven by this building a bunch of times without knowing what it was. The staff is wonderful and very knowledgeable. The displays are intricate and there are tons of things for kids to touch. My favorite exhibit was the life-size pterodactyl hanging from the ceiling. This was my second time visiting this museum in a short time, and I still saw things today that I didn’t see the last time. Admission is very reasonable, and they have a really neat gift shop.

Devanney Manoz

Great way to spend an afternoon. This museum was super cute and well designed, a perfect place to bring young children. The staff was super friendly and helpful, one of them even gave us an unofficial tour. They have fossils, preserved animals, various rocks and crystals, and lots of displays with info explaining what you see. There are quite a few objects that you are allowed to touch. There is a scavenger hunt for the kids and a play area where they can dig. Totally worth the $8 ticket to get out of the cold and see some interesting things.

Raymond Ayres

Very nice and most educational. Great animal displays, I was not aware there were Alaskan Lions at one time

Julie O'Neill

Great place for kids. Took our 3 & 5 year old grandkids. Just the right size to hold their interest. The museum provides scavenger hunt sheets that makes it fun and educational for the kids. Mimi and PopPop even learned a couple things. 😉 …

Jacob Trewe

One of the best museums in the Anchorage area, but check ahead for limited hours of operation. Good seek-and-find activities for kids, wide variety of exhibits.

Jack McCaslin

Small museum that is well run with a focus on ice age, dinosaurs, and rocks.

JL Johnston

Curators tried to stay Alaska-oriented and everything is well organized. Social distancing is also easy to maintain.

Lorikeet pocket

We really enjoyed this museum. My son loved the digging area and the gift shop and my daughter loved doing the quizzes and collecting a prize. Everyone who worked here was so friendly and helpful and great with kids.

Brittany Brewer

Small but very informative with lots of things for little ones to touch. Staff very friendly and helpful. There is a scavenger sheet for kids to fill out and get a small prize.

Nichole A

This place is so cool and the amount of hands on exhibits is very fun. Def suggest for a dino or animal loving person.

E H.

Was a great place to visit, fair fee to enter. Amazing educational for kids abd adults. 100% recommend. :-)

Bill Kays

A compact but well thought out layout. The museum offers a glimpse into the past with many displays and a few hands on activities. Admission is very reasonably priced and the staff very friendly. If you have a child with an interest in geology, this museum is for you. The property inside and out is well maintained and clean. Enjoy your visit.

Melody Welsh

Really awesome museum! They have allot of exhibits talking about the local wildlife

Jack Flynn

Very enjoyable museum. Engaging exhibits. We learned a lot! Nice gift shop with items at a variety of price points. They also have tables set up in a separate area that you could bring a picnic lunch or snacks. Friendly staff.

R Chari

Stumbled across this about 2 years ago and continue to be impressed. It's an amazing place for kids since so much of it they're allowed to touch. It's a little bit of everything from rocks to animals to fossils and even a play area. Great for toddlers through teens because they can play or read in detail info depending on age level. Make sure to take advantage of the wooden drawers throughout the building as they're full of other items you can check out but there's just not enough shelf/table space for it all

Tracy G.

We decided to take our 2 year old here because he is obsessed with dinosaurs. He enjoyed running around and looking at the few dinosaurs they had but we all grew bored after about 20 minutes. There is a "dig site" in the back for kids but we didn't partake. The staff is very friendly & allowed our little guy to roam the museum with the stuffed toys he found in the gift shop. I thought the price for 2 adults was kind of steep for the amount of material to look at & time spent inside. Our little one does however want to go back to get more dinosaur toys!

Rachael B

I wanted to love this place but looks like a glorified science fair project. I know covid doesn't help the situation any but for the price it's just not really worth it. Took us less than 30 min to go through even using the little scavenger hunt.

Sierra Franks

Great little museum!

Holly Katherine

Hidden gem to take kids. Almost everything there you can touch and is hands on. They built an area for kids to dig for fossils and play with other learning activities. Staff is friendly and engaging.

zachary mcgee

We had a ball! Lots of things for your kiddos to play around with. Great place for hands on experience

Cassandra Brooks

Was very informative but it could do with some more interactive displays.

xena Almquist

My son and 1 absolutely loved this little museum. It's deffinantly great for all ages and the staff were knowledgeable and very friendly

Karen Best

Whenever you visit a new area you should always go to a natural history or science museum. The Alaska museum is one of the better ones that I have been to throughout the United States. It's definitely worth the time to visit and learn a little bit more about the area you're visiting

Casey Renteria

Smaller than I expected. Absolutely dead silent and it echoes horrendously. While they do have alot for kids to do and touch every noise or excited scream is magnified by 1000. My daughter loved it I just felt bad for anyone in there with us since every excited noise sounded like the apocolypse.

Kim Carolyn Steele

If you have children this is an excellent location to bring them. They have a great mix of hands on activity and exhibits that are well worth the admission price not to mention specialized events like Tinker time with storytime and crafts and exhibits like the Nano-Imagine exhibit that is coming December 21st-January 5th! Adults are just $5 and children are $3.

Arthurina Rosario

Great place for all ages!

Jennifer Lodge

Great little museum. Our family enjoyed all the exhibits, especially the hands on ones.

Edward Kelkis

Family friendly and informative.

Kimberly Hawthorne

Small only takes an hour but lots of stuff to see. The scavenger hunt really helped the kids look at things more closely and stay engaged.

Matt Cabana

We stopped by this museum today and it was packed with good information and displays appropriate for both adults and kids. The fee to get in was reasonable and would be well worth the trip and admission.

John Bump

This is more kid oriented and small but it's nicely presented for what they have and the staff is quite knowledgeable.

Myra Scholze

Fun and family-friendly museum. Lots of great information and hands-on exhibits. I definitely recommend it for snowy winter days with little ones!

Morgan MacConaugha

Wonderful gem of Anchorage. So many amazingly interesting fossils, stones and so much more. Definitely a must visit place for young minds to explore and be inspired.

Johanna Desbiens

Cute little museum for our young kids. It was kind of small but perfect for our 3 year old who loves animals!

zachary stough

Great place, small but packed with great content and information. Great priced

hanna camp

Friendly and helpful staff.

Julio Cesar Casares

It is a small museum but very interesting. Best staff ever!!!

Jarek Halat

I never knew! You'd be surprised at what you didn't know about the past right here in Alaska!

Julia Keltz

Nice little museum. Very kid friendly of all ages.

Kenny L

Pretty good for its size, lots of information. Although, it was absolutely freezing and kinda dim.. Bring a light coat/ hoodie.

Tiffany Zorn

Great museum and gift shop. Staff are friendly

Eric Lee

Table place for Alaska people in Alaska native to know a little bit more about their Heritage and the beginnings in origins of Alaska and food is great

BoxRelish

Fantastic. Lots of things to touch, lots of things for kids, lots of real science for the adults, very affordable. Will go again.

Eric Reddemann

They had a lot of exhibits. Very informational and worth the price.

Samuel Lee

Small but full of good info. Love the geology section.

Jenney Yousey

Had a birthday party here and the kids loved it. Fun place

Jennifer Dieken

Great way to learn about dinosaur history of AK.

Jami Norman

😊 fun

Michal Searles

Great!

wendy hallback

This is the awesomest little Museum in Anchorage. Nearly everything is out and available to touch and pick up and explore.

Keith Black

Simple museum but definitely a location to put on your Anchorage to do list

C J Walker

Peaceful and quiet, with interesting and well thought out exhibits

alanna condit

Great for kids who loves looking at rocks and bones. Lots of history

Anthony Bostick

Really cool, they have Lucy! Clean facility and friendly staff!

Sean Yates

Small but packed with great stuff!

mary moulder

Great place for families. Playing and learning experience

John Vu

Very informative

alex ross

Some cool stuff. Wish there was a larger variety!

Mike Allen

Very informative, my first time to Alaska.

Drew Litwack

So much fun and so much to learn.

Tom Meneni

Great customer service.

Yeva S

Cool and educational place for kids.

Sandi Snow

Small place, but fascinating!

Dessa “Dreamer” Dickerson

Small but interactive for kids.

Kelly Kampen

Cool little museum. Worth a stop.

Jesse Millions (TheJesse001)

Went on a school trip and loved it.

Carson Jarnagin

Very nice exhibition

Cole Reitz

Great place for kids and adults

Steve Driscoll

Great all around

Justin Smith

Only open 3 days a week?

Terry Suttles

Good

Blue Kjet

love it

Rick Benken

Outstanding displays!

Claire Ferguson

Awesome !

lalit gandhwal

mysterious

Candice Jennings

Learned alot

Bernard Sullivan

NICE

Michael Graham

Very interesting!

Edward

Kids loved it

Tara Aure

Kid friendly

Annette Crespo

(Translation) tremendous place to see and share with children (Original) tremendo lugar para ver y compartir con niños

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Derek Straka (XwizkidX)

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