Reviews of Museum of Nature & Science (Museum)

Omar Lepig

Wonderful museum. Slightly small but great place to take kids or spend some free time to learn about the area and local artists. Helpful workers and guards.

Eddie Franco

Nice atmosphere and you learn from different types of history and friendly staff.

Joshua Chelini

We had a great experience here. Staff was friendly and helpful.

Nicole Johnson

Very educational and interesting.

James Closs

It was free when we went, and great for kids. The actually had little science experiments for kids. Check out the giant Amethyst!

Carrie Hale

Great interactive displays & very child friendly.

Pugz 54

Love it

LATTIMAR PETRONE

Impressive building- I had a great time from beginning to end. Daily tours will extend your knowledge of the Museum and history. Very impressive North American diorama collection of nomads, animals, dinosaurs and trees. Learn about extinct animals or animals on the extinct list. See excellent work in tacodermy of extinct animals.

Morgen Wright-Pfeifer

Love this on Saturdays during the Farmers market. The kids can take a break from the heat use the restroom and learn.

Jerome Espinosa Baladad

A small science museum but it's worth the visit. It gave me ideas how fascinating Las Cruces and the surroundings are because dinosaurs once roamed these places so long ago. You see evidences here at this museum.

VOLANDRÖN, el mundo desde el aire

(Translated by Google) Very cool, great to go with the kids, and for € 5 it was great (Original) Muy chulo,genial para ir con los niños,y por 5€ estaba genial

Rudy Thompson

a lot more then meets the eye!

Joseph Muniz

A great museum to take the family. Only got to see the science side but I'm glad something like this is on main street.

Kelly B

Neat little museum. Great displays. They even offer classes.

Jeffrey Eakman

Things too learn

David Serrano

My toddler loves it and I love they have activities for them

Joseph James

Geat place to visit with children for then to learn and explore.

Juan Melendez

Small but good though

Deborah Wilbur

My Nephew loves Science, Dionosours, & Reptiles we go with him every Saturday and they always have things to do and we never get bored. It may not be the biggest place but they always try to make learning fun.

Marco Guerrero

Great to take the kids, they offer summer classes, bit pricey but gets your kids outta your hair for a few hours. Lots to keep them entertained!

Linda Limon

Learn about New Mexico's dinosaur past it will amaze you

Lety sarmiento

It was great. My little one certainly enjoyed it.

Roxanne Lopez

Nice

Raena gallegos

Had a great time!

Sherri Foreman

Small but interesting museum. Entrance also includes train museum down the street. Work on the roads now on both sides of museum so easy to drive by it & one side is also one way @ this time.

Joey Montemayor

Love bringing the kids. The name itself is very appropriate, in that you'll find (mostly live) exhibits of wildlife and some interactive exhibits like the one where you can use prisms to refract light. I remember a nanotech exhibit I particularly enjoyed myself

Megan Bair

Almost all of the exhibits were so COOL! Minerals, dinosaurs, space, ancient Egypt, and natural wildlife exhibits!! A must see!!!

Fred Flintstone

free entry nice exhibits

Mary Witmer

The Las Cruces Museum of Nature & Science is a great place to take children for an outing. The museum is free, and they have some hands on activities. My grandkids enjoyed their day there. The Art museum is connected so you can also view some great art after you visited the Nature and Science Museum and the Art Museum is free too. They do have donations boxes in both areas so drop a few bills to keep these museums in our community.

David Garcia

Granddaughter loved it

Teddie Mo

I wished I could be here every day! I took the grandkids for the afternoon, we had a fun time building a satellite and testing it. We enjoyed the room with the large planet that changed colors as we interacted with it. Museums have changed since I was a kid. Hands on fun is always a great way to learn and appreciate culture.

M. Cowan

Great place to stop for an hour or so for a quick taste of natural history!

Lupita Montoya

Cool place to go

Jacob Casey

Museum is very small and doesn't have much, but they are friendly and what they have is pretty cool.

Kelly Ahrendes

This is an awesome museum that the City of Las Cruces provides. Granted it isn't on the scale of a children's museum or a dedicated science museum, but it does touch on a lot of subjects in a very small space. They have astronomy, topology, fossils, love animals found in the area, dead animals found in the area, and at times host certain events mostly for children. They are attached to the Art museum complex as well and are across a courtyard from the Branigan Cultural Center. All of these museums are free but also accept a "pay what you think we are worth" donation system. It's well worth at least five dollars. Don't go expecting the world, and you'll have a great time.

MaryLou Resendez

Perfect outing with the kids.

Larry Fowler

Great place lots of history play ground ...nice view.

The Q-P Family

This place is awesome and it's free...wow.. That is amazing, you can't get that anywhere anymore..So how could you go wrong.. Check out out videos while we visited here.. We are "The Qper Family" of Las Cruces. Look up our channel on YouTube to find more awesome things to see and do in our beautiful city.. Much love Family..

Vermithrax Pejorative

There's not much to see at the museum building (both the art, and nature and science museums are located in the same building), but the free admission and dedication to display quality make it worth a visit if you're in the area.

Atikol Onelove

Love the atmosphere staff very friendly actually a relaxing yet interesting museum I would definitely recommend and come again

Susie Rogers

Food and service is great!

Escobaria Gracilis

Great place to take in some natural history of the area. Like the fossil tracks.

Michelle DeVos Cole

Small, a few live animals mostly amphibians, reptiles, insects and turtles. Can go through this museum in less than an hour. It's connected to the art museum. Some great info on the Mesilla Valley animals and their habitats. This museum is on the downtown Mall, where the farmer and craft market runs every Wednesday and Saturday 52 weeks a year. The museum is informative and regional specific also has great info on the prehistoric regional areas and digs.

Nicole Callaway

Cute little place it's free and worth a stop in to let the kids out to learn a little bit and have some fun

Eric Salas

This museum is about looking and understanding—looking up to the stars, looking out to the desert, and looking down to see ancient fossils. There are three primary permanent exhibits: Desert Life, Permian Trackways, and Light & Space exhibits.

Johnny Acosta

Not only was it free to take my fine and two year old. They had a really good time.

THOMAS DAVIS

I was helping setting for Southern New Mexico Pride booth at the Farmer's market Plz go by and support our local L.B.G.T.Q. they will be there till 1 PM today

Ruth Burkett

Great small museum

Debbie McCurdy

My visiting grandsons loved this museum. How nice that it's free. Always something to learn for all ages. They also enjoyed the adjoining art museum.

Chad Barbry

Great little museum. I was impressed for it being a free museum.

Daisy Fielder

It's small but it's free and the kids enjoyed the animals!!

Diana Bristol

Great hands on fun activities for kids. Love of live dessert amphibians. Lizards, turtles, snakes and more.

Michael Nunez

A great place to take your children in the heart of downtown Las Cruces. They have lots of interactive learning tools, animals, dinosaur fossils, and a neat planet display. A must visit!

Deana Baker

The kids favorite part of downtown

GLOBAL HEALTH SCIENCE INSTITUTE

Need a gift shop...part of the fun.

Zu Keyper

Nephew's had a blast on their visit!

Anthony Gould

Just wonderful take your kids there lots of hands on stuff

Celina Jackson

Fun and free!

Efrain Rodriguez

I love it

Adrian

I like this museum. It's perfect for the city off las cruces.

Abdel-Hameed Badawy

Again, one of a kind. Must go to.

Gabriel Saldivar

It's free!

Bonnie McCormick

Small but nice

Michael Gonzales

Great interactive exhibits, my grandchildren really had a great time.

Wayne Woodall

Very informative, nice place

Celeste Walton

Nice small family museum. Enjoyed the exhibits. Very educational. Entertained our 7 year old all the way up to our 17 year old!!

Sara

Love bringing my kids here!

ti su

Many of these review are for the ART MUSEUM, not the Nature and Science Museum. As for that little gem, it is no longer kid friendly. A few turtles, magnets, and a globe screen. The dinosaur dig pit has been out of commission longer than it's been usable. The toddler times/educational stuff they do is a coloring page and a streaming show. No is allowed to make noise, walk happily, or enjoy their time. Even though it's free, I cannot say that it's worth taking the time to go.

David Boland

Wonderful free museum. Very new looking with some great live exhibits and some educational displays.

Susana Parra P.

Free museum with great exhibitions, lots of useful information, weekly activities for the kids and excellent customer service.

Timothy Wedel

My kids had fun. They loved the big snapping turtle the most. They are 4 and 2 years old.

Tim Lewis

Part of several great free things to do in Cruces. Met wonderful people and did a little scavenger hunt.

Lora Jackson Legare

Great exhibits of local natural interest.

Ross Bussell

It's very small, but the kids love it. The museum is always clean and well maintained.

Stephanie Harding

Fun place and free

Esther Limas

It's very interesting!

Tc axtell

Great place to stop with the kids real quick.

Nasim Hasan

Nice place for learning

D. Y. Torres

The animal encounter talks are so interesting and you get the opportunity to touch/get up close with different animals in the museum. The staff is very knowledgeable and more than willing to teach you something new.

Paul Deason

Helpful and knowledgeable staff. Great presentations for young and old alike, covering local Flora and fauna, to space and astronomy

ali padilla

Fun! Variety! High quality museum! Right here in little ole' Cruces! Saturday during Farmer's Market they have activities for young ones right out front. It also connects to the art museum, also high quality!

Chris Miguel Salazar

First time going :)

Melissa Tsyitee

Cool exhibits

Kristen Robinson

I great place to see if you have some free time. We saw all three places which were free. We still donate some money to this wonderful place. We really appreciate it. Thanks for having this place open. We really enjoyed the history and culture and knowledge your town shared with us. Thanks

Lupito Ramirez

(Translated by Google) I liked (Original) Me gusto

Gustavo Bourdieu

Nice museum, very good for kids

Kevin Lenkner

While small in size there were several well done exhibits that spark the whole family's curiosity. You could quickly stroll through or take the time to get into both the live animal exhibits and interactive tech based displays. Good for a 60-90 minute exploration. FREE too! Their almost non-existent website and social media do the museum a disservice. Art museum is also connected to this facility and Free.

suede vicious

Great time with the kiddos, lots to learn and see

Kandice Seum

My three year old was amazed. He loves science (astronomy in particular). It's a small museum, but totally worth the visit. The staff is polite and helpful. The nature section was great, but we loved the planetary section most. Free admittance! We will return if we ever come through Las Cruces someday.

Hugo Hernandez

Great musuem for our small town. Exhibits are relevant and interactive.

Gary Szalwinski

Cool art, Cool Animals. The place is awesome.

Shelley Cole

Absolutely love this place.

Jeanne Dobson

Nice place to take the kids on a hot afternoon. Nice collection of fossils and live animals.

Debra Tallent

Great place for kids to learn about animals and space.

Jazmyn Young

Pretty cool. Small but definitely something to entertain thet littles for 30-45 minutes

Franco Gilberto

Small place but very nice

Elizabeth Balizan

Awesome. Loved it

LeAnne Warner

Great place for families to visit, very kid friendly!

Yaidi Diaz

Es pequeño pero es muy educativo. A mi hija le gusto.

Chris Luchini

This is pretty good Museum. Since it's government-run much of the active displays are non-functional. But the static displays are usually pretty good, and do rotate enough to make a bi yearly visit worthwhile, for children. There is usually at least something new every other year that might be of interest to adults.

Erin Schoenick

Awesome exhibits!

Annette benny

Loved it!

Peter Donavan

small but well worth the visit

Susan Nelson

Awsome

jerry everhart

Always enjoy a visit to the museum...great setting...nice employees and volunteers.

Brandan Michael

Not much but still interesting

Ruth Ann Stephens

The Museum of Nature and Science was truly educational. I attended a short presentation on March 16th presented by Cheyenne Stice about botanist Ynes Mexia. We created terrariums to showcase the development of plant growth. Fun for all ages!

fierro jason

It was cool

Mike Nichols

It was between exhibits; I can't give a fair acessment. I was there for a photography workshop. Good session lead by a local artist grad student. From looking at the spaces the museum has, I believe it should be reasonable for accessibility . Elevator to the second floor. No major architecture barriers that I recognized. I look forward to going back for future exhibits. One warning... The traffic pattern outside was disrupted by street improvements. Check before you go ... Not sure how long that mess will last.

Pat Chambers

lots of really nice informative displays.

Gabriel Villanueva

They rotate their art expositions fairly often and their animals look well taken care of. Always nice to visit, very good programs and classes as well.

Ken and Phyllis Newkirk

Nice free museum with an emphasis on the local wildlife of the Chihuahuan desert plus animals living in this area during the Pleistocene. They have a good display of dinosaur tracks (footprints.) Families with children should find it especially interesting.

Addie Brandenburg

Friendly staff. Great tour.

Rose and Mike Farmer

This place has dinosaur tracks from a local site just out of town. And some interesting interpretation. Worth a stop.

Joe Smith

Educational. Exhibits are carefully planned. Good balance between written into and visuals.

Melani Gracia

Fun for the kids!

Sylvia Lister

Lots info

Persephone Purdeu

It's small, but really wonderful to visit.

W.P. Fuller

My kids love the animals and the globe and the geode. But they want new revolving exhibits like when the museum was at the mall.

Julian Ledesma

Very nice exhibits and a spectacular dimetrodon skeleton. A tad small, but it's put together nicely. Also has an attached art museum with great pieces.

Darrell Hischke

Amazing. Good place to bring visitors of all ages.

Abu Saleh Md. Tayeen

Good for children.

Melanie Straight

We had a great time.

Mary Jane

This small museum offers many exhibits regarding the natural history of the region. Children's activities are scheduled every Saturday morning during the farmer's market.

Terzah Horton

Small but very informative and well done. The main exhibit now are the animals the desert and an astronomy exhibit

Adam Mutter

Awesome

Raymond Madson

A favorite place to visit after lunch with friends or before an early dinner.

Alejandra Paola

(Translated by Google) Excellent (Original) Excelente

Bryanna Torres

Great

Connie Simonis

Very interesting. Would recommend a visit there

Melissa Wentner

My son loves this place. Especially the interactive space stuff. And a free class for preschool kids on Thursday mornings.

Kyle Zimmer

Amazing

Chris Bettencourt

This museum is very small but packed with good stuff related to the region. It's very well curated and fun for kids and adults to move through. It's connected to two other free museums. With free parking there's no reason not to check this place out if you're in town. It won't take you too long to go through them all.

Jenny Creager

It is an interesting place to visit. My gradson loves it there. They have classes on Saturday with various subjects.

S Coronado

Had so much fun even did the scavenger hunt will definitely visit again when in New Mexico

Ed James

I like the exhibits and my kids like them too.

Bryan Sweebe

It is pretty small for the average person, but probably just for when you are taking a 2 year old. My grandson thoroughly enjoyed it and really like the live animal displays.

Irene Alatorre

Awesome place for children. The place is very clean and friendly staff.

johnny carabajal

Nice place to take kids

Chalmers Reed

Really well done!

robert Bruce

I enjoyed my visit. Very good

L Reyes

Nice educational place for new mexico desert.

Bonnie Futterman

Small but very nice exhibits. Friendly staff.

Daniel Walden

Can't beat a free museum! Great for kids of all ages - adults can enjoy it too. Nice addition to Las Cruces

Elena Sena

Very nice

DONNIE ATWELL

Nice but small free too. Great thirty minute stop

Stephanie Ann

Nice

Moniquee Avelar

I always have a pleasure in seeing the new exhibits

Cynthia de Lorenzi

This is a wonderful small museum in downtown Las Cruces. This is especially a great museum for children and to learn about the geology of Las Cruces and New Mexico!

Miguel Martinez

Museums will always get my top votes. While this place is small, it does offer many things to see. The museum staff and volunteers were very friendly and helpful.

S Lample

We enjoyed this.

Minnie Montes

Staff were there to answer questions and knowledgeable about the content.

Donna Harvath

Was very nice for small town museum. Located around so many different shops.

Luis Canchola

Best in town

Bruce Montreuil

It wasn't a very big machine but it was done up nice

Rebecca Gonzalez

We love this place!