Reviews of Joplin Museum Complex (Museum)

Sherry Brown

Nice myseum for a small town. My grandson enjoyed it. Glad these things are preserved. Fruendly staff. Clean. Loved the fire truck.

Amy Hinkler

Nice display of history and minerals.

Mary Benner

I've been here once and yearn to return

Paul Johnson

Cool stuff

Becky Ellerman

I can't believe I have never been. It's remarkable.

Tre Duggan

If you're just trying to kill some time and learn about the area this is the place to go! Very cool information and artifacts from the mining area that made this area what it is.

Billie Burtrum

Nice way to spend the morning. My 5 year old enjoyed it!

Yammy so jordon

Went to see the model trains

Ryan Gaulding

The mineral museum is awesome!

Midge Blandamer

Staff friendly and helpful and loved the resident cats. The museum has grown since my childhood and it was fun showing it to my daughter and grandchildren. We had a lovely time. Enjoyed the circus exhibit also.

Eric Covell

Alright so the contents of this museum are indeed interesting. The reason I gave 3 stars is because half of this museum is stuck in 1947. The minerals and mining exhibit are very interesting and informative though at least half of the minerals on display have no information about them. The info cards are hand written. Is there no sign or print shop locally that could print something for the museum? Its time for the cards to be replaced as they are falling apart. Also its time to dust some ducts,

Melodie Van Camp

Small museum, easy walk through. Mining/minerals side and Joplin history side. Very little on Bonnie and Clyde.One tiny display with a couple of pictures and a door.

Patrice Landon

Small but very interesting.

George573

Great place to take the kids and only 2.00

Nicholas Brickhouse

Small and random stuff but still pretty cool

Meralis VA

Interesting place to go if you are in the area. Not a museum that I would travel to see. It is small but very interesting. It is 2 dollars per person. It is worth for the amount of things you will see. I believe that they will be opening a Titanic section and the entrance will increase to 3 dollars per person. The museum is divided into two seccions. One is a mining exhibition. This area is perfect for a History and Science class to view. The other is exhibition area is suposed to be about Joplin, Missouri's history. It really has more of "all over the place topics items and topics." There is a bit of everything. Also, the owner is a cat lover. He has an area with news papers written as if one of the cats is narrating. Also, there were a bunch of cat shaped bags (12 to be exact) around the upstairs exhibition area. I found it cute and unique because I like cats. (These were Christmas decorations that were still there). Probably not so cute if you are not a cat lover. The restrooms are at the very end of the two sides of the museum. The museum only has one parking for disability. The thing I do not like about this museum is that it seems like it does not have an elevator. (Unless there was one in a closed area) It is sad because there is a second floor area in the mining exhibition and it would have been in to go upstairs if I was still in wheelchair. ♿

DAVID MEINERSHAGEN

Great place to visit with the kids.

Stephanie Reed

An informative museum on geology and Joplin. Our tour guide was one of the 3 cats who live there. She greeted us at the door and showed us all the best galena specimens, old mining equipment, and the cookie cutter collection.

Amanda Yantos

Only $3 admission, and a ton of very interested artifacts. Dogs are not allowed inside. I would have spent more time looking around, otherwise. Was really cool to see Bonnie Parker's necklaces. Definitely recommend stopping in if you're in the area.

Tina Miller

They have a lot of information about the mining history of the town & a really interesting walk through display museum of historical items from the town.

Joe Iliff

Awesome exhibits about mining and local history

Dee Hallz

Interesting

Eric Thullesen

Excellent place to remember local history

Teri Kasch

Great place $2 admission for 2 museum's.. History of Joplin

Jon Marlow

Nice little museum that the whole family enjoyed. The curators were very helpful with their vast knowledge of the various things on display throughout the museum.

Bill Tafoya

Very helpful front desk receptionist position

Chris Meeks

Amazing artifacts and history of the SWMO region

Donna Miller

If you can find the location you will be impressed with this hidden gem located in Joplin.

Sandy Larson

Love this museum!

Jesús Nieves Velázquez

Interesting place

Cassandra Golden

Very inexpensive entry fee for a nice hour or so of a wide variety of things to view. I enjoyed it!

Ashly Kimmel

Love this place us to go all the time wen i lived in joplin

Samantha Guidorzi

Very nice museum! They have way more in there than I thought they would.

Pierros Zevolis

One of the points of interest museums of the Historic Route 66 at Joplin city of Oklahoma State. We have not visited the indoor space of the museum, we have seen only the outdoor exhibition with traditional country tools, which is an interesting one.

Whitney H

I only had 15 min to see it before it closed. I had to go through very fast (never saw upstairs). I wished I could have spent more time and I will go back and check out. The cost was really good. $2.00

Steve Roosevelt

Very educational

Amy Agee

Lots of interesting history

Elizabeth Evans

This was a very fun set of museums to spend some time. You can probably spend an hour and a half here, but it is well worth admission. The location is a hard to find within the park and behind the buildings, the entrance was hard to find also. Each museum in the complex is very small so don’t expect a ton of variety, but they are all unique and interesting.

Daniel Saunders

Liked the minerals and nice displays for the history

Josie Thompson

Beautiful place

Bryan Lang

The mineral part was awesome

Ted Fullen

Very nice complex good exsebits

mrs w

I love this place! Living in Joplin it's an awesome and cheap attraction to come learn some local history you might not have known before! The bonnie and clyde exhibit will always be my favorite part. It's a fairly small museum but Joplin used to be a fairly small town. The natural rock exhibit is very cool and interesting. I will always suggest this place to people who like learning new history!

Shannon Smetana

Truly interesting, affordable and well organized

Jennifer Fulton

Friendly staff and a lot of interesting local history.

Raina N

Always a great time, with good conversation.

Preston Rouse

Learn about Joplin's history. Mining days. Admission is only two dollars.

Lisa Johnson

Great collection

Erika Cooper

It's a great place to take the kids

Mark Schmidbauer

A hidden gem! Lots of seemingly random stuff (rocks and minerals, miniature circuses, cookie cutters, Dennis Weaver memoribilia) at a low price.

Karli Rae

This little museum was a fun stop to find! Our kids had a blast and we enjoyed learning more about the area! Staff was also really wonderful!

steve kellough

Not one of the better museums around.

Star Atchison

The staff here is very nice, there is a lot of mining ore, and crystals. There is a room with a mine model thats really awesome. Various old equipment from the mines. There is a circus room complete with a fun mirror that I almost had to drag the kids away from. There is rooms of daily life in different ere's and 1800 appliances. Overall its a nice rounded little museum and souvenir shop.

Annette Willis

Very interesting lots of old and unusual artifacts

Darren Carden

Shame on Joplin for not supporting and displaying very interesting past history in a modern building! Please dust!

Aidakin 07

Do not go if you are allergic to cats!! There’s a sign on the door that says “please don’t let the cats out”. Right when you walk in there’s cats at the door. I’m severely allergic and my husband asked if there are other cats and she said, no, just these ones and they usually just leave people alone. He told her his wife was allergic and she said, ya, I get that a lot. Well then don’t have your cats there! They aren’t part of the museum. My family toured and said it was great. As they left, the cat lady was on the phone trying to buy something. It was weird. If you get questions about your cats or many people are allergic then don’t have them there, seriously!

Troy Harter

Cool little Museum

Ed Gowland

A vast collection covering every historical aspect of Joplin. An enjoyable experience.

Alfred Bennett's

Great place to go to walk around and look at old mining stuff and theres a park right around the corner

Louise Amos

Good layout friendly staff

Margo Lewis

We went to a train modelers show. The place clean and well maintained.

Ryan Hunter

It's nice to have a museum in Joplin. However, the exhibits are in need of a refresh. It's hard to see detail on lots of booths because you can't get very close.

Steve Hosp

If you wanna know about joplin history this is where its at, if not it's still a pretty neat place to check out...

Adrian Hoag

A pokemon best battle area

Elizabeth Chunke

Great small town museum with lots of information! We really enjoyed it.

Caleb Keeling

Loved it here

Mike Odess

Not open when we were there

Jay Moore

Great Place for a quick history lesson.

Andy Ward

A double museum. Great mining museum and microcosm if Joplin history and life.

Travis Ogle

Always enjoyable

Eric Ramsey

Lots to see. Layed out well, neat and clean.

Miranda Kenosky

Love this it's a perfect little family adventure.

jonathan Martin

Really enjoyed the exhibits they had in the complex. They also have 2 lovely museum cats that will hang out with you while you're there.

Merrita Short

Learned alot while we were there.

Carson Jensen

Very cool musuem with lots of variety. Everything from mining to a detailed history if Joplin.

Todd Brennfoerder

Tiny little place that doesn't change much.

Alexander Dace

Great stop, beautiful rock and mineral collection.