Reviews of John Wesley Powell River History Museum (Museum)

kim ardito

Lots to see and do

Lisa Jeppson

This has got to be one of the best museums I've been to in Utah.

Kent Marshall

Excellent. Beautifully done, informative, and they have a passion for what they do. We were impressed enough that we donated to their work.

Jessica Parker

Nice, clean, well done museum. Had a lot of information. Kids enjoyed the movie and the boats. Definitely worth a stop.

Corinna Brewer

Wished they would stay open longer

KP C

Friendly and helpful people

Wm Vogel

Very informative, educational and interesting museum. We'll worth the time spent there.

Warman Hall

Well designed museum. Extensive history display on exploration of the river. Large gift shop. Outdoor restrooms.

Robert Little

Very nice museum. The 20 minute movie was the highlight for me. That movie won best picture award in Houston's film festival. Done with live River shots and CGI "ghosts" it explains the fear factor of not knowing where the next rapids or waterfall ahead. Gift store has interesting inventory. From green Green River T-shirts to ukeleles.

Calvin Gaisford

I stopped in while charging my car. It was very well done and I enjoyed the short movie.

Jared Madsen

Decent place to kill some time if you need to get out of the car for a bit. The river movie was pretty cool. I ended up purchasing a copy for home.

Dee Stansbery

History is interesting air conditioner works great

Terry Walker

Great museum that presents the history of Grand Canyon exploration.

Keil Young

If you need a map or looking for some local hidden gems make sure to talk to the guide inside the museum!

Kaye Nelson

Great information and friendly staff!

paula mcmahon

Very informative and has great gift shop

Sam Ragsdale

Very well set up

Jim Free

Great Cultural Museum

jason boesiger

Surprisingly good museum for such a small town. Good movie, entire dinosaur fossil, and lots of information. It's worth the mile drive of the highway.

Jonathon Fauver

Great place to stop.

Tyler Jorgensen

Very interesting, the staff is very friendly and helpful. Place is very well taken care of.

pokey999991

John Wesley Powell is a ancestor of mine. I believe on my fathers side of family. His middle name is Westley also..

Jessica Young

The movie alone was worth the $6 admission price for adults (only $1 for kids 5-15!). We are glad we stopped in. We found all the staff welcoming.

Captain Morgan

It was a great place to go and learn about the early explorers of the green river and see how travel has evolved! Would go again

Richard Guo

Not worth it. Poorly curated.

Mark Diveley

Great historical experience. Nice gift shop. Well priced.

Marvin Sims

Excellent coverage of Powell's work in the area. Also covers the history of the area particularly good overview of the development of river use. Don't miss the short film.

Schadeycreek Lures

Great place to stop and take the kids

David Watchorn

Very interesting, very well done. DO NOT MISS THIS

Clarence Freeman

Loved the history.

Poidog Tom

History

Patricia Daniel

Very complete, small museum with lots of original artifacts. Worth a visit!

Anne Allshouse

Nicely done museum, very informative.

Colleen Garringer

Very Informative about local area. Wonderful movie about the exploration of the Green and Colorado Rivers. Friendly people. Well stocked Gift Store

Rick Lagowski

Very good source of history. Nice place to visit in Green River.

Rick Bridges

Excellent museum on John Wesley Powell's exploration of the Canyon country. Also good exhibits on the local area and the history of River rafting in the western US. We found this a very interesting small museum, with a Great gift shop and friendly staff. They also serve as an Information Center on all local and regional attractions, scenic areas and activities.

S G

A through and well done museum for all.

Chris Boyd

Very interesting

alvin wong

Liked all the information about Powell's trips

Zhou YU

It was a nice and short stop for us in Green River. We learned much about John Wesley Powell's expeditions and the development of the region. The story was quite different from that of the East Coast. We were the only group while we were there. We paid the full price for the admission fee and only stayed for about 50 mins. I wish that the curators could be more informative about the exhibits. The education and programs manager seemed uninterested in interacting with visitors. This was a slight disappointment to me.

Connie Hatch

Lots of great books

Judy Scharf

Nice spot to stop and stretch your legs when on a long trip. Check the flood height ramps beside the river.

stephen ranford

Interesting museum and a peaceful setting next to the Green river

Chelsea Gillespie

This place is old and hasn't been updated in years. I wouldn't say there is a main attraction for the museum either. The pricing is fair, the bathrooms are outside and awful, the gift shop is a bit tacky.

Hope Glenn

If you're interested in the indigenous history of Eastern Utah or in the river runners who continue to shape the outdoor culture of the area today, you will love this desert gem.

Kristine Sorensen

Very nice information about history

Bobby Painter

The place is so run down. The bathrooms are hideous, the grounds are unkempt, and the staff seem unknowledgeable.

Nels Rasmussen

Very interesting. Would recommend taking grandma

Charles Morris

Amazing staff and very interesting information! The staff was very knowledgeable on the information and also all local events!

Gary Simms

Nice Displays

tracy schumacher kanno

Great exhibits, informative displays, sculptures, real boats, great information

Lyra Yeretzian

There were some very interesting things at the museum but the film kiosks were set at such a low volume you couldn't hear them. The museum staff didn't seem very enthused or willing to share information. Kind of disappointing.

Paul Curtis

Great place to visit

Dean Campbell

Really great little museum that covers not only Powell's life and river journeys but also provides context and history of the rivers themselves. Totally exceeded my expectations... highly recommended.

Zach Evans

Very informative museum about the area! Wish I would have had more time to stay.

Emily Zinn

I really wasn't expecting a museum of this quality in Green River, but it's intelligent, informative, elegantly designed and well kept up. The talking animatronic characters are charmingly cheesy but the content is great. The artifacts and reproductions are great and the topic interests me a lot.

CJ Bowie

Excellent place and well informed staff.

Martha Currey

Amazing museum! Must do before you go rafting!

Joane Pappas White

Always great with my animals.

Mark Hughes

Nice and informative signs outside. Didn't spend more than a sec in the gift shop. The museum admission price was so great we passed.

Maria Sykes

Definitely a place to stop if you're in Green River for the day!

Addi Tay

Beautiful museum, lots of interesting facts, so much to learn! Definitely worth the stop!

Ian Gillott

Good picnic spot.

Cory Rice

My kids really loved it (4 & 6) and the staff were very nice. It is very small though so don't expect to spend hours there.

Steve Rutherford

Informative

Caylon Vielehr

Love this museum. The entrance donation fee is under ten dollars, there is a great exhibit hall with loads of information, pictures, artifacts, and real boats used by the earliest explorers. They have a theatre featuring a film about the incredible journey of Powell and his compatriots into the great unknown, in addition to a gallery with revolving shows and a cool shop hosting gifts, memorabilia, and southwestern art and jewelry. Stop by on your way to booking a trip down the river for yourself with Holiday River Expeditions next door.

Manuel Ortiz

Nice shop and museum.

Christopher Bliss

Cool stuff.

Analynne Pengson

The museum was great. I enjoyed the history and the content of the video showed in their theater. The town is small and quaint but the people are friendly. You would enjoy your visit since you will learn the adventure that John Powell took and his discovery of the Grand Canyon. The museum helped in educating me about the history of the rivers in the area and especially about Powell.

Talon Kohler

If you plan on spending some time on the Green or the Colorado rivers then you need to stop by this museum! It was a great experience for me and my wife. Really cool to watch the documentary about Powell's explorations, see how things were done back in his time and learn how truly insane it was to be the first explorer to map out this region. Really friendly folks who run this place and there are alot of interactive exhibits for kids and grown-ups alike!

Linda Hoernke

Interesting museum covering the history of river exploration on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. The stories of John Wesley Powell's two trips on the Colorado come alive in their exhibits and in their 20 minute film. The gift shop offers books and other elements of interest into the American Southwest.

Jayce Garcia

Very educational, seeing how they used to do things.

Anya Hess

Great option for geologists if it’s too rainy to be outdoors. Bigger than expected, nicely kept up, and the video is really good. Surprise dinosaurs on the lower level.

Helen Howard

Very interesting museum. Great introductory movie. Wonderful Glen Canyon historical trip exhibit and wonderful historical wooden boat exhibit on lower level.

Paul Polewaczyk

For being relatively off the beaten path, a great place. Well done and kept, the information presented is thought through and interesting. The gift shop is good too.

Tonya Christensen

Go here, see this. Amazing Green and Colorado Rivers exploration history!

Jennifer Tucker

Great informaton!

Michael Grindstaff

Very interesting exhibits surrounding all time frames of human habitation in the area, as well as some incredible historic boats...very inspiring video for river runners...gift shop

Shaunna Nichols

Wow! I didn't know that there was so much history down in Green River Utah! The lady was Amazing and helpful! The bathrooms were outside but nice and clean! We will be back!

Travis Elliott

There's dinosaurs. Need I say more?

Jeremy G

It's cool for green river

Richard Kunkel

Fun place

Julie Stanley

I've been here 3 times passing through Green River. It's a great way to stretch your legs. The stories of the first explorers of the surrounding river canyons are amazing

Elizabeth Farrar

Enjoying seeing and reading about the nearby area.

Steven Searle

This is so cool if you liked history.young kids would go hmmmm.

D Manley

Nice museum dedicated to one of the giants of Western US history.

Nancy Millhoff

Very very interesting

Austin Martin

Interesting short stop along I 70.

Mona Kronberg

Useless. Don’t stop there for information. It a gift shop and the staff are unfamiliar with providing information or providing customer service. Rude.

Tamara Scurlock

For a modest size building, it housed aHuge collection of wide variety of local and natural history. Food, recharge, picnic tables, nestled next to river

Ruth Bly

Very informative.

Charles Burrier

Interesting place.

# kind vibes

Cute gifts and wonderful information!

ben roberts

Great museum and exhibits

Gary Gaz

Lots of good, local, displays and info.

George Stossel

Theater was closed for repairs

flannel pillowcase

A nice, small museum that appears to still be under construction in certain parts. True to its name, it focuses primarily on the exploratory voyage of John Wesley Powell, a civil war veteran with a dream of charting the Colorado River past its known path. He took a crew of men and boated downriver, discovering all the way to the Grand Canyon and beyond. The museum covers this journey with a multitude of exhibits as well as a short film that the staff very kindly played for me in a theater upon request. There are some other exhibits detailing historical and geological facts about the surrounding region, and even an intriguing dinosaur section with actual skeletal specimens on display. While I wasn't a big fan of the $6 per adult entry fee, I can understand the need for funds considering it's a small museum in a small town that probably doesn't get a lot of visitors (during the entire hour and a half I was there, I was literally the only guest). All in all, it's worth a visit, especially if you have kids who enjoy learning.

Jerry K

Worth the visit

Tom Hartwick

Very nice place to learn about green river and Colorado river

John Horton

This is a great way to contextualize and better understand the history of the Powell expeditions, the Green and Colorado rivers, and other whitewater pioneers of the Southwest

Elizabeth Brown

This was an outstanding tribute the an amazing American hero. Worth every penny. Don't miss peeking into the basement room off the main room of displays. One can see some dinosaur skeletal remains and core samples of Utah's rock formations. The gift shop was the perfect ending to an engaging and educational experience.

Ed Layton

Good