Reviews of The Whiteside Museum of Natural History (Museum)

Johnny Harrison

Love. It!

Mike Cable

Great small town museum with a focus on local paleontology

Shlug Official

Relly a good museum

Richard Dawkins

They have the real skeletons dug up from nearby digs in Baylor county. Well displayed with great information on what the prehistoric animal was. Some are one of kind not found anywhere else .

Anthony Taylor

I think the best part of this place was talking to the people in the back working on the fossils. They were very enthusiastic about their work.

Stuart Halverson

A great little museum for a day trip.

Nathan Rice

Very informative and fun. The staff are great, as are the exhibits.

Krystal James

Great stop for the dino lover in your family! Lots of creatures from the Permian. Plus, they have more than dinosaurs, there is a room full of local wildlife, a room of African animals, a room full of live reptiles, and the lab where volunteers careful excavate the fossils brought back from the field. Over all a neat stop!

Garren Donelson

This is nice spot just south of Vernon texas.

Bryce Nickels

Such an amazing museum in Seymour! The exhibits and and other activities can make it a full day trip. There is also a neat music park across the street, fun for all ages.

Lauren Disney

This is one of the greatest natural history museums in the country! It's on the smaller side, but the Curator/Director, Chris, is such a neat person who proudly showcases what has been found in the local area. The highlight is a really neat working Paleontology lab with many specimens that trained volunteers are uncovering. It was definitely worth the four hour drive for us & we'll be returning soon!

Josh Davis

Really cool place to visit. It currently has the world's most accurate T-Rex model

Laura Checki

The Whiteside Museum is a MUST visit in Seymour, Texas!

Andrea James

Didn't hate it Loved it but it cost too much for 2 adults and 2 kids

Holly Battaile

This is a very nice museum. I read several nice reviews and totally agree. I got the closing time wrong and we arrived 15 min to close. We were still allowed to look around as long as we liked and the staff was very friendly. There are live animals too. The work they are doing with the locally found fossils is wonderful. There are several great displays and you can watch them work with the fossils.

Amanda Renee

Love this museum. Great for kids, you learn so much about the science and history of the area.

rednecklonghorn82

Great museum with lots of exhibits. If you're visiting Seymour, stop by and be amazed!

Matthew B

Where can you go and talk with paleontologists while they scrape rock off ancient fossils? Been 3 times. Not just a museum but a working laboratory. Worth a day trip from Dallas.The Rolling Plains is dinosaur central....

Mitchell Harmon

A friend of mine and I went here just to check out the town of Seymour. It was well worth it. We wanted to see this museum and the sound garden across the street. I was surprised at the quality of the exhibits. The staff are friendly. We got there very close to closing, but they let us in, and didn't rush us at all. Always willing to answer questions and talk a bit about what we were looking at. If you ever pass through Seymour, take the time to stop and check this place out, you'll be glad you did.

Carpe Diem

If you're a prehistoric geek, you'll love this place. Interesting information and artifacts. It's a small presentation but worth the trip.

Billyjack McCutchen

We homeschool our kids and we took them to this place for a field trip. We had a great time. The staff was very nice and knowledgeable. They even let you into their lab to see the process of finding and cleaning the fossils. Great place!

Shane

Sure like them fancy stickers

Charlie Keane

A must see!

Mae Freeman

Fantastic!! Wonderful to see this quality of museum in our north Texas area. Excellent work Seymour!!

Kat Coyle

Really informative and fun for all ages

Mitchell Scott

It was free and the staff were very nice with an interesting experience for a small 2 horse town.

Forbidden Paleontology

Amazing local fossils. We disagree on the age given to them, but the displays are very nice.

Julie Walker

Great place to take dinasaur lovers!

Bret McCormick

Worth the drive. Fantastic educational venue for all ages. Great for young children. The love petting the hissing cockroaches. Fun and up to date. Truly a hidden jewel.

John England

You can get hands-on exposure to local bones and teeth that are hundreds of millions of years old. See excavation and restoration work performed on site. Very unique experience.

Ronald Haight

Neat and Interesting exhibits

Lauren Bush

Best small town Museum ever! The displays change regularly and it seems like there is always a new discovery. Paleo lab open to public! Love animal Zoozeum. Check out their Facebook page for info.

Ren Scarbrough

Wonderful museum with a fantastic collection of local Permian fossils on display. These fossils are older than the dinosaurs and include favorites like Dimetrodon and Diplocalus. Exhibits are engaging, creative, thought provoking, and descriptive. You can even watch them work in the active Paleo lab where local fossils are openly prepped. Anyone interested in paleontology could easily spend hours and hours here.

Mike Wright

Lots of neat things to see

Gerardo Cañedo

This place is small but totally worth it. They have a fossil prep lab that is open to the public. This gives everyone a chance to see what happens behind the scenes at a museum. Best of all, most everything is collected locally

Auston Doing Stuff

We are so lucky to have such a wonderful place to visit in our community! The staff is amazing! They are wonderful with kids!

Chloe Madinger

This museum is a must see for dinosaur lovers. It is located in the town where the fossils we're actually discovered! They have the history of the dinosaurs, great mock ups, and lots of real fossils! The museum is well taken care of and has a lot of interactive displays. They have a room with some taxidermy animals that are local and some that are from other countries. There is a live reptile room that has all kinds of snakes and lizards. Then there is the fossil lab where you can see real fossils being cleaned up to be put on display!! What a magnificent experience. I don't know any museum like it.

Helen Hamberg

Very cool little museum with a friendly and knowledgeable staff.

Eric Leija

Two words: three words: a great spot!

DB2

Was well worth the trip from Ft Worth. Staff is very knowledgeable and friendly. Was given the opportunity to see in person how they excavate and separate the bones from the encasing Earth.

Tom Lee

Amazing Paleontology Museum, a premier Permian era speciman collection.

Terry Horry

Very personalized tour ,,,,awesome exhibits,,, thanks!!

Dusti Butler

Amazing family friendly atmosphere! Awesome staff with lots to see!

Ryan Hatcher

Check out the jackets in the back!

Ryan Monjaras

Incredible museum!

Ernie Segovia

Had a very nice visit! Looking forward to bringing the grandkids!

Luke Songz

This small museum was very informative and fun to visit. The local fossils found are on display. There are also some live animals. It is a treasure to find this in the town of Seymour. My family really enjoyed it. In the back they are working on the fossils collected and you can watch them work.

K D

Beautiful murals, museum was closed at time I went through but murals were worth the stop.

Donna Byrket Spikes

Very interesting exhibits from local digs and enthusiastic staff!

Joshua Siniard

A great museum that is at the forefront of research in Permian paleontology. There is a wealth of information and a very welcoming staff. Tons of fossils on display, many of which were found just a few miles away!

Kenneth Braud

Great place! Friendly and very informative. All local digs and displays of previous and ongoing activities.

Barbara Warren

Most informative features... Ability to tour the lab where ongoing excavation items were being cleaned and catalogued.

Sarah Hays

Absolutely a jewel of a family friendly venue, with a true variety of natural science focused on local finds and ongoing work. Enough to see that you can spend all day, but not so much you're overwhelmed. Most enjoyable!!

Gail Bley

Really knowledgeable staff and great hands-on experience.

amanda smith

Awesome, friendly and knowledgeable staff! There is an enormous amount of beautiful and informative displays as well as a diverse assortment of well presented live creatures.

Joy Kisinger

Great!

Margaret Waters

This place was fabulous because you could speak with the people preparing the fossils needs better marketing as we found it by accident

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I do recomend for fan with the family is awesome

Kellie Hare

Cool day trip!

Martin Zecha

Excellent ! Very knowledgeable staff,you actually get to watch them working on things that they dug up

Glen Swarts Jr

Great people

Caren Birdwell

Had a great time...staff is awesome

Debra Howard

We had a group of adults who rented the museum for a Night At The Museum Christmas party and it was great. The displays are amazing and it was so interesting to see the dinosaurs that actually existed right here in Baylor County. I especially enjoyed seeing the workroom where the bones are taken to be pieced together. The curator did an awesome job of explaining everything. Very interesting. Definitely worth stopping to see if you are travelling through Seymour, or even if you live in Seymour. Don't miss it! This is a great place to visit and/or have a party. I promise you will leave knowing a bit more about dinosaurs and the process of digging them up.

Billy Elmore

Like the visit and will go back.

Penny Schaefer

This was a nice stop on our road trip. It was obvious that a lot of work went into the displays. There were no wheelchairs available for the handicapped, but there were multiple areas to sit down and rest while walking around the museum. Plan to stay around an hour or so.