Reviews of Museum of Natural and Cultural History (Museum)

Jack Walsh

Great place

Kato Lee

Very neat! Was entertaining and educational! There was a school field trip there when we visited so we felt a bit rushed to try to stay ahead of them. Other than that it was a nice time.

Amy Coulter

Wow this museum is truly amazing. I learned so much about hunter gatherers and fishing. This museum would get five stars but you know that globe in the kids section... it just wasn't as shiny as I had hoped it would be. Despite that set back the staff there is just super.

William Leung

Love the Geology part!

Troy Kreger

Great small museum on University of Oregon campus. Has a focus on Native Americans, Oregon geology and paleontology. Only $6

Toni Hanson

Excellent displays.

Dayel Chapman

The workers were nice and friendly.

Monique Kirby

Kind of spendy, but lots of interactive exhibits.

Dan Frosaker

Love the meteorite, and the sandals.

Pernille Langenbach

Great museum, lots of really nice exhibits, kids loved it.

Alex Bowland

Some great exhibits. Very affordable

Shareni Romero_G

Very calm and lovely.

Rebecca Smith

Feathered Dinosaur exhibit is FASCINATING!

Lonnie King

It was awesome

Sherri Foreman

Very nice University of O campus museum. I really liked it. They have a little parking lot just across the courtyard entrance. Park, then get the pass for your car window from them.

Edison Velez III

Small museum, but exhibits were packed with lots of information and offered a variety of mediums to interact with. These include tablets for audio and video, magnetic displays, crafting, and the traditional self-trivia reveals. I was impressed with the exhibit focusing on using environmentally-friendly sourced materials and how they can positively address modern challenges that affect marginalized communities that don’t have streamlined access to development.

Satyavati D'Antoni

Great place for families

Brandy Tarr

A really nice museum to walk through and learn about Oregon.

Tierra C. Watkins

The exhibits are always factual and interesting! I really enoyed the exhibit featuring biomimcry in architecture/survival architecture. I recommend that everyone makes at least one stop here when they are in Eugene :)

justin mccollum

Great little Natural History museum with an excellent concentration of superb exhibits and archaeological artifacts within a stone throw of downtown Eugene.

Rob Kadrmas

Love this place.

Elena Ghezzo

In few rooms, all the history about the life in our planet and Oregon in particular. Highly recommended!

Catherine Siskron

Great place to visit if you are interested in geology. Fun dinosaur and mammoth exhibit this month. Also creative take on disaster housing.

Mohmmed Al Zaher

It was my first time to be there and I liked it!

Mayra Delgado

Super cute, small museum.

Connor MacAuley

Learned a lot, and had a great time.

Bri Watkins

Awesome experience. Learned a lot about Oregon.

Ruth Bryant

Absolutely amazing!!

tonylwat3

Outstanding place. Jam packed with neat stuff

James Quinn

Very cool place to go.. very interesting

Mary C Foss

Very nice place, lots to see & touch, very friendly docent.

Randy Mogstad

Great place to take all ages lots of artifacts and information

Charlene Martinez

Some of the exhibits were being updated. But still was a great museum. Loved the owl photo exhibit and the Mount St. Helens exhibit too. Easy to walk around in. Parking lot just to the west has spots for museum visitors, get a pass when you enter the museum.

Dan Austin

We visited on one of the free days and had a enjoyable and enlightening afternoon touring the exhibits. We spent time in the Explore Oregon and Where Past is Present areas, but mainly came to check out the Racing to Change Eugene civil rights exhibit. This was well put together and well staffed and we appreciated being able to learn about the history of civil rights activism in Eugene. The building itself is a little adorable tucked away gem. I've lived here for years and never knew about this space. Both the exterior and interior are well crafted and satisfying. I am happy that this place exists in the city where I live.

Melissa Rancour

Fun and educational place that is kid friendly. This is our second time going and we found the exhibits interesting and the kids had fun researching. An hour is plenty of time here.

Kayla Garnet Rose

Wonderful visitors center with interactive displays that both adults and kids can enjoy.

JoAnn Malone

It's a lovely little museum. Really great exhibits. Fun interactive activities. Not enough dinosaur bones for my 4 year old to stay interested tho...

Elizabeth White

I work here and it's awesome!

Julie Faden

Great place to learn about our great state!

Colene Stoernell

Ask for the scavenger hunt. It's a fun way for kids to see the museum.

Jamie Cleaver

Fantastic museum! Great for all ages with many interactive displays. I definitely need to come back since my kids were dragging me around to each of the exhibits they were excited about.

Ruby Davis

Wonderful exhibits...great staff and excellent way to learn more about the history of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.

Joseph Bennett

Some of the exhibits were being updated. But still was a great museum. Loved the owl photo exhibit and the Mount St. Helens exhibit too. Easy to walk around in. Parking lot just to the west has spots for museum visitors, get a pass when you enter the museum.

Garvin Jabusch

Great collection of NW native materials, plus good review of Oregon's natural history.

Liza Burns

There are some very cool exhibits here. All the staff were friendly and polite.

Sammy Hurst

Some of the exhibits were being updated. But still was a great museum. Loved the owl photo exhibit and the Mount St. Helens exhibit too. Easy to walk around in. Parking lot just to the west has spots for museum visitors, get a pass when you enter the museum.

Suzanne Rutledge

Unique museum. Learned things about the Pacific Northwest I didn’t know. Well done!

Trisann Norton

This was very educational and fun loved to learn so much

Heather Lagaso

Fascinating and fun!! This place is amazing! From 3 billion year old rocks to 20,000 year old poop; they have it all. If you like learning and want a museum to spend a few hours doing just that- This is the place for you!

clockworkking s

It was bloody amazing, truly an interesting place to visit if you have time to kill amd want to see some history.

Luba Ethan

Awesome little museum that had great information with a variety of subjects. We spend a good hour here, and there was plenty of activities that kept both adults and kids entertained.

Mike Flippin

Staff was helpful and friendly. Great place to take kids of all ages. Has many interactive displays for kids. Will be back again soon.

Garrett Porter

Great interactions, great info :) although it is rather small. The museum is free admission on home game days for the ducks (I dont know if that's only for football...) and I wouldn't pay to get in.

Monika Ruwaimana

Great place to bring family

Jacob Casperson

Good one time experience. Affordable and has some cool fossils. Go on a Sunday for free parking on the street because the museum itself only has around 5 parking spots.

Evan Davis

Small and jam packed with information. We received free entrance because we have an OMSI membership. They have some very old local (Oregon) artifacts including a 9,000 year old sandal. This is more of a stop and read kinda museum with some interactive things for kids. If you walk straight through, you'll be done in 10 minutes or less.

David Bankalachi

Oregon history on display. Get up close and personal with items from Oregon's native past.

Terry Smith

A lot more than you could ever imagine. It's right in your backyard. Do yourself a favor....

Melissa Wellington

Love this place! Something to please everyone, artistic history. I went on a free day but would definitely pay in the future.

Brad Jordan

A must see while in Eugen!

Austin Jagels

Free for students and inexpensive for others. Very good way to learn about local history and they just added two new elephant sculptures out front.

Paul Porter

Good modern interactive place.

Doodle Doodle Nope

Small but comfortable. The kids loved it, especially the fossils and skeletal displays. A nice stop for families.

Eric Bear

This small museum packs in some great exhibits. There is a lot of information about the Native Americans who lived in this region, but also the animals. There is a life sized skeleton of a giant ground sloth that will give you nightmares! Staff/tour guides are patient and friendly.

Maureen Farley Waff

Highly recommended

Sean Perks

I like this place because it has a nice emphasis on global warming and the decline/threat to native species overall because of humans. A sad but very real truth that people need to see. I've read some negative reviews about the cultural side, but as a biologist I mostly review the natural history side. Overall it is a great small museum.

FireBug Tools Jay

A great place to take the family for the afternoon.

Galen Hartzell

Nice place to take your kids

lee curry

Small, but packed

Claire

Inexpensive way to kill a couple of hours with curious school aged kids! Lots to read and learn about, including historic artifacts, local nature, native history, and earthquakes and volcanoes. Definitely worth a visit.

cinmngurl

Our second home. We love going to the special events too.

Klara Larsson

No museum ever is worth $35 with student discount. But there’s a lot to see if you like aquariums.

Chad Wolley

A great little museum on the UofO campus. Tons of information on the native peoples of Oregon and the area, as well as great exhibits on the Natural history of the area. And a GIANT SLOTH! So cool!

Teresa LaPier

Interesting place to bring curious youngsters to. Spent about 2 hours there. I was not sure if photos are allowed so did not take any.

Aimee Williams

This is a amazing museum! The staff was great. Mr Connor greeted us and Ms Brianna. They were our host and hostess and they made sure our experience at the natural and cultural museum was one that we will return to with friends.

Blaze Carl

Good for kids and adults educational

Michele Woods

Some of the exhibits were being updated. But still was a great museum. Loved the owl photo exhibit and the Mount St. Helens exhibit too. Easy to walk around in. Parking lot just to the west has spots for museum visitors, get a pass when you enter the museum.

marie leroux

It's got rotating exhibits that focus often focus on archaeology that's being done by professionals employed by the University. For a smaller museum its great! Especially for children, there's always interactive elements worked into every exhibit.

Franz J. Kurfess

Very nicely presented material, with an informative your by Linda.

Betsy Moszeter

Super cute and well-run museum focused on tactile ways the little ones learn, love it!

Angie Land

Don't miss free first Fridays at the UO museums!

Dilan Zumach

Small, but a lot of neat stuff.

Evan Smith

Wonderful perspective into the life of the natives and the climate and geology of the area

Jordan Bayles

Phenomenal museum, especially considering how small it is. Packed with cool exhibits and innovative interactive ones, definitely recommend it with or without kids

Tammie Cunningham

I went last month . Loved it :-)

Robert Taylor

A must see if nearby

Emad Allaho

Great place to take kids

Nayelli Weather

It’s pretty cool! I got to learn about poop. Yea that was fun.

Chunfen Zhou

This is a highly educational, locally-focused museum with plenty of digital and interactive features. Admission fee is modest. Galleries feel fresh, and the resilient architecture exhibition is very interesting. One of their main exhibitions, Explore Oregon, groups together several topics such as evolution and extinction. While this may be a workable approach and the topics are interconnected to some extent, I think the narrative is a bit loose. I would have preferred a chronological flow for geology-related exhibits, and, for biology-related ones, a layout divided into ecoregions. Of course, this is my own bias, and a lack of square footage may pose a problem. Also, if they have more space, a lobby area (prior to admission desk) for resting and socializing would be a nice addition.

Josh Wagoner

Amazing

Mathew Dill

The price for admission was way to high for the amount of attraction they had at the place. I was not impresses.

Melanie Morelli Hendricks

Lots of interest ing things to see

Brittney Waldrop

This museum was very small, and truly, very boring!

Tina Frostell

What's fun learned a lot of new things

Strato Tact

Since there are nothing but too positive reviews I must rate the other extreme to warn you that this is a tedious and generally incoherent museum. Pickings may be slim in Eugene but I expected even if the materials in the exhibits were not first rate the explanations and use of technology on a college campus would help shore it up. Quite the opposite. There is one room that attempts to present the geology and natural history of the state but it does not really tell a clear story, there is no clear chronology or perspective. And this is the best. The rest is a random jumble of ethnography with very 5th grade social studies type of content. Yes, we know there were Indians and they lived with nature. Great. What was their history? How were the tribes distributed? What about their encounter with the Europeans? Then what? Nothing. No story. No history. And then thrown in are a couple cases of junk found at Chinese camps to include them sort of in the story. No films, no lectures. Vacant. And I was not looking for much.

Carol Lafon

Cool place!

Dylan C

Wonderful collection, especially of archeological artifacts found nearby. the interactive exhibits were fun, and the person who gave me a tour seemed really excited about history. I went just to see one specific art exhibit, but ended up spending hours going through the entire walk through twice.

Tibbi S

This is an amazing museum and well worth a visit... or two... or three. Heck we try to visit it at least a couple times a year if not more.

Lulu Nu

A great place to learn about Oregon

Nique Reid

Friggin radical dude, guide was on point af bro. 10/10 would tour again

Dan Head

Enjoyed learning more about the history of Oregon. I was especially fascinated with the information on the indigenous people of Oregon.

Peggy Pickles

This museum is near the U of O campus in Eugene Oregon. And has lots of meat displays. When we were there they had some of the oldest shoes that were ever made on display. It was great to go to. It was easy to find a parking spot on the weekend. They have an outside garden also to walk around with some artwork in it. And if you also have time you can go walk around and look at the nice old buildings on the U of O campus.

Alex Prochot

Excellent collection of pnw natural and cultural artifacts and exhibits. We spent over an hour going through with kids 3, 6, 12, 17, and 19 and all of them stayed engaged and loved it.

Dillon Clingan

Excellent history of Oregon on display

Jeff Smith

It was small yet interesting ,there was an older man who volunteered there that just kept talking very loud an nonstop seems he was mostly interested in the women ,seemed a little Pervie, wouldn,t leave my wife alone so we could enjoy it together.

Roy Thomas

It is always interesting to learn something new. Come check this place out.

John Fimple

Very cool....the Sloth skeleton is awesome

K McElveny

Friendly and informative. Hands-on kid center, lots of displays, volunteers on hand to educate visitors.

Gary Walter

Great facility, nice exhibits, good learning.

Robbie Wolfe

Very cool artifacts. Learned a lot about early Oregon. Wish it was bigger but happy with what I got :)

Aryana Ferguson

Great place to learn of the long history of Oregon.

Alexis B

Great museum!

Tristan

The Museum of Natural and Cultural History is a fantastic place to visit for all ages. The people at the museum are top notch, from the archaeologists piecing together Oregon's past to the friendly and knowledgeable volunteers who are always on hand to answer any questions. I may be a little on the biased side because, well, I work here, but I loved this museum long before I got hired. Come on over and you'll see what I mean.

Justin Hostetter

It's pretty interactive. Has a good history of Oregon. I just don't agree with the evolutionary base the museum comes from.

RICK TABOR

Outstanding!

mcdaib

Wonderful collection of Oregon's natural history. From sabre tooth tigers to indigenous cultures. Definitely worth visiting.

MyLois

I learned so much!

Maria Ekstrand

Interesting collections and interactive exhibits of Oregon's natural history.