Great place for families with kids. Refreshing, educational and will take you to Jurassic era. There is a food place called Darwin if you want some snacks in the museum building. They have some sample rocks and dinosaur models, you can actually touch. The museum is beautiful and well organized. The staff is very friendly and knowledgeable.

This museum is great!! It is free (they ask for donations) and it has so much to offer. We went once when they first opened after construction and we thoroughly enjoyed it. We went again recently with our niece and it has even more amazing exhibits! We definitely will be back.

This is a fantastic natural history museum with a really well-thought layout. While it’s slightly geared towards younger scholars, there are plenty of displays that everyone can appreciate. This place does a great job with several hands-on displays and labs that allow children to garner a better understanding of the exhibits. One of my favorite areas was one showcasing native Michigan plants and animals. They also have a planetarium show for an additional charge.Museum designers struck a good balance between amount of content and visual appeal. This is a perfect rainy-day place especially if you have the kids on a day off school. It is also budget-friendly as admission is on a donation basis.

This place is good for kids above 10yrs I guess. I took my toddler there and he was not much into it. Very good for kids to learn about nature, evolution of plants, animals, rocks etc. All of this is free, while you can watch a movie for $8 per head (it was a 40 min movie on sea monsters when we visited)

This Museum is small, but it was clean, nicely arranged and very informative. Considering that its free, I would suggest to spend an hour or more at this museum. Good for kids and families.

The exhibits are cool and interesting for all ages. The building is really nice. There was a cute baby sturgeon and we got to speak to the guy during feeding time to learn it’s story and about its future (thanks)! Building is beautiful and there is a little cafe with healthy and kid friendly options.

I spent a few hours at this nice museum to get out of the house. I was pleasantly surprised at how nice it was. And the staff was amazing.

Best part was the dinosaurs. That’s why you should go and planetarium and gift shop

I am super super excited to have seen/ experienced a whole museum entirely dedicated to show Evolution at a grand scale!! Right from the very beginning of origins of life till the present day to Fantastic collection of fossils, beautiful casting work, to appealing models and finally to the gripping language describing these huge process in such simple and fun ways! This museum of natural history at University of Michigan is one of its kind. This particular picture is taken at section where the Tree of Life is explained in a visually and linguistically appealing manner.

A unique place ideal for kids and adults alike to spend time while learning our past. The fossils kept on display vary from minerals, animals, fishes, mammoths, meteorites, footprints, and much more. The best part is you are encouraged to touch them, thus making it a holistic learning experience for the kids of any age.

Good reorganization and updating of exhibits migrated from the old site. Nice view of and interaction with active research labs. Not huge, probably an hour or so with 7 and 9 year old kids. As of April 2019 they continue to complete exhibits/models upstairs.

Free. Spend an hour or so walking through time. Awesome displays, including ancient whales, the replicas of which hang overhead (50ft long). It’s newly reopened. The upper floors house offices of researchers. Well designed. The nearby cafe has great coffee.

Beautiful new modern space... and even though they just opened, tons of great exhibits to see. If this initial opening is any indication, theyre going to be a top 5 museum in southeast Michigan for sure once the rest of the exhibits open in November 2019.

Amazing displays! Im sad I didnt get to go in November when a lot of the new exhibits open up. But what they have already is fascinating and engaging.

Free! Great for kids. The new building is radiant with light, very open! Lots of space for exhibits that are opening later this year. Whats up now is a great look at a fossil recovery lab, a great exhibit on evolutionary development over the eons, a beautiful mineral lab, and a planetarium show. Theres plenty for kids to touch, too, including a plastic reproduction of a T-Rex skull!

The Natural History Museum is in a new building and its exhibits are newly deployed. We really enjoyed our visit. This is a very interesting Museum.

Great place to take the kids to explore science and history. Its free to visit and the only thing youll pay for is parking.Exhibits are very well done, with detailed explanations of each display.

It was pretty cool, but Id wait until all their exhibits are open. Most will be open November 2019. Theres still plenty to see, but we were a little disappointed by the infrequent gaps. There were also several areas were there were supposed to have interactive activities; they were all closed. I dont know if thats because they arent available yet, or because we went on a Sunday.

This museum is small, but as expected since it is a free entry museum. The planetarium was cool but unexpected; usually for planetariums like this, it is more of a movie on the screen, but this one had a narrator/presenter who talked to us about the topic, and it was interactive, so the audience could shout out answers that the presenter would ask.

Great place. Has a lot to offer. Much more detailed info with each exhibit. Looks like students do join to learn. Loved it. Parking is limited but available in the back.

The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History is a very kid friendly place and fun for all ages. With a lot of high tech, the museum is engaging for the young ones. It is a wonderful place to have a field trip because theres no entrance fee. For the adults, there is a wonderful cafe with such a variety of food options. I love visiting and plan to again very soon.

Some really good exhibits. Some are just propaganda. They spend a lot to push their agenda, despite being a great place to see dinosaurs.

Educational, fun, and free. Great exhibits, interactive learning, great staff, and events just about all the time.

Loved it! Cant wait to come back and see the changes coming in November!

Great displays. I just have a problem with feathers to dinosaurs presented as secure fact instead instead of May have evolved. Observational science of natural selection over time always ends up with the next species with a loss of information not a gain of additional DNA.

Can easily spend 1-2 hrs here and there is plenty for people of all ages. Best of all its free.This little museum is on UoM campus. The focus is on natural history so you will get the usual dinosaur bones and displays but by focusing on prehistoric times in MI makes it unique.The microbiology lab upstairs was the highlight for our kids. They got a chance to use pipettes and perform DNA extractions and ELISA. The media and info videos are carefully crafted to neither be nonexistent or excessive.

Really cool place, but the Tree of Life does not let you write to search.

The museum is part of the building and the main exhibition is on the first floor. Not a big space but you could spend hours going thru everything. You can ask questions and get answers from scientist working in the labs.

I love the museum of natural history, or the dinosaur museum. Its amazing for anyone curious about biology, paleontology, astronomy, geology, history, and more. Its hard to review a place that is formative to your view of the world? Suffice to say, at any age I have felt joy entering the beautiful old entrance hall and walking up the stone stairs to the museum. I could spend hours among the exhibits, new and old, and always learn something new.

Very cool spot! Lots to keep adults and kids alike entertained and engaged. Its not quite on the level of something youd maybe find in New York or Chicago, but Id highly recommend it and you cant beat the price of choosing your own amount to donate. Im excited to go back and check out the planetarium as we ran out of time on our previous visit.

The museum is a pretty cool place to stop into in when in Ann Arbor. Admission is free but donations are appreciated. Near the U of M campus. Lots of displays from Michigans past, one of the few places in Michigan I actually seen prehistoric animal bones. Good place to take the family, also a gift shop inside.

Great for museum for children. Awesome display of dinosaurs.

I am not an evolutionist but I so appreciate the dinosaur fossils and rock collections. Impressive state-of-the-art facility!

Mind-blowing updated museum, incredibly up to date, organized layout. Small Cafe with large seating area, many easy to access rest rooms. Parking structure nearby, on Sunday only cost $6 for 4 hours in museum.

A little small, not a bunch of exhibits, but what is there is interesting and presented nicely. One room was more for adults, one was for children with interactive experiences and demonstrations. From what I saw it would be an excellent place to bring children and get them interested in something. Lots to touch and see

We brought the kids they loved it and we had a baby with a stroller and had no problems going through the exhibits. However with a wheel chair or stroller you need tl go through the down stairs entrance

Bigger room from previous museum location. Nice for a walk-by visit. If you go to Ann Arbor Downtown, take a walk to History Museum!

We took our 9 month old here for a few hours and she liked it. There are many things for little ones to touch and explore. It was a good sensory experience for her and my hubby and I learned and saw new things. Very cool.

Its FREE!!The exhibits are quite extensive and informative. Its good for adults and children alike. Leave yourself several hours to see the entire place if you want the full experience.

Great hands on museum for kids to go to and adults alike. Worth every cent of the $6 suggested donation for admission. Their permanent exhibits include a evolution floor with tones of bones of extinct, prehistoric and contemporary animal species (including dinosaurs, mastodons and dolphins). Another floor dedicated to Michigan animals, another to anthropology and archaeology - where their temporary exhibits and planetarium are also located. The Sunday I was there they offered Dinosaur tours and had tons of additional temporary activity tables for the kids to interact with; one had jaw bones of various animals for them to touch and learn about, another had a demonstration about cockroaches, etc.

Way cool. Call me old fashioned, but I liked the old layout better. The exhibits were nice and fresh. Cant wait to see more special exhibits!

It was great to see bones, stones, and fossils. I dont know how entertained a young child might be unless they are really into science. The Michigan exhibit was nice too.

The natural history museum after renovations has a lot of cool additions and is set up differently than before. The museum has been moved a build over and is now combined with U of M school of science. Its great to see technology positively incorporated but, that in combination with the sterile white floor and wall environment, the natural history museum has lost the feeling of a cozy old museum with hidden secrets about our world waiting to be discovered. The museum now is new-agey and is still great for those whove never been.

This is an amazing place for kids and adults. Just read the display explanations and you can learn so much. Picture is copyrighted.

Very nice to visit and can learn a lot if you take the time to read about everything. Will be back with our kids sometime. Great family day trip for us.

The new museum is pretty fantastic. I learned a lot. We know a lot more about evolution, eras, and living creatures from various periods these days so it is worth a visit! Pretty fascinating!

I went with my kids (6 and 4). They got a lot out of it. I want to go back by myself to take the rest of the museum in. If you also have short kiddos be prepared to lift them up a lot to see some of the displays. I wish I had a big carrier for my four year old. My arms were tired trying to engage her in all the interesting sights.

It was a great free museum. Its not the largest, so you can go through it pretty quickly, but its a beautiful building with many nice exhibits. There are plenty of activities for kids to do also.

Had a blast here my first time going. Cant wait to visit again.

What a joy it was to explore this museum. I enjoyed my time learning about DNA, looking at beautiful crystals and stones from the Earth, and all the dinosaur things they had throughout the building. The architectural design flowed well and location was pleasant. I enjoyed the bridge by the museum a lot.

Interesting and educational displays, very nice facility!! Great place for kids, the students who work there love to share their knowledge.

I loved my experience at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. It was such an amazing, informative place. I appreciated the detailed information accompanying many of the exhibits, along with the interactivity of the Please Touch! attractions. Many people brought their children, who seemed to love looking at the fossils, minerals, and other artifacts. I would love to go back to see the planetarium exhibit when I have more time!

Good museum to go and look at our natural history. Not very many exhibits but whats there is still pretty good for anyone. Several areas were closed or inactive when i went but that was mainly due to scheduling, and the areas being renovated or scheduled for later in the week. The cost was free when I went.

Kids loved it! I was too busy chasing said kids to really enjoy it. But i did like that the new displays are mixed with some of the old and the increase in interactive displays from the original museum .

Great little gem of a museum! The displays and educational information are engaging for all ages. We also recently attended a childs bday party here and the program was amazing!

Wonderful display of natural history.

This used to be such an amazing gem. Unfortunately, with all the changes, this is no longer a kid friendly place. The museum is on the second floor and is in the middle of what is being used as a study hall. It is very quite and noises / screams echo. The museum itself is now only 1 hallway that loops around, and the bigger items are spread through the whole building. To see the mammoths you have to go to the lobby, some stuff is visible on the street through the windows, others are suspended through the building in weird areas. Like I was saying, the charm is gone, no longer an exciting place for kids.

Super cool place to visit if you are in ann arbor. Budget friendly. They have everything from rocks and minerals, dinosaurs, animals, and space exhibits in such a pretty building. This is a great stop for a family day

What a gem! A wonderful find among all the other treasures of the UM campus area. It was good before but is now wonderful in its newly opened space. The building atrium with the mastadon pair is light, airy, and open. The other displays are also excellently curated, with great visuals and informative descriptions. Too much for me to read in a couple hours; could easily take a half day here, even with young kids. Live demos (we saw a cow eye dissection), and if you go on a weekday you can peer in on researchers plying their craft. Free to enter; thanks U of M!

The lifesized fossils in the stairwells are awesome.

We love visiting the museum, seeing all the dinosaurs, and enjoying all the exhibits. We love seeing the mixture of exhibits from the old museum and the new exhibits. The events and special exhibits are a lot of fun for all ages.

A very interesting and in depth museum. Its not a huge one, so you can spend a couple hours and see and read everything, but my favorite part was that it pays attention to fossils found in Michigan and Michigan natural history. Its engaging for both adults and kids, and there are fossils you can touch and interact with, not just things behind glass.

This place is awesome! My three year old goddaughter had a blast and cant wait to go visit the fishy dinosaurs and fluffy elephants again.

Good very fun and we all enjoyed

Staff has consistently been awesome, friendly and helpful. Kids love the exhibits and hands on activities too. Always a great time!

Very educational and informative. The new remodel is great. I have to say I miss the dioramas of the ancient civilizations. Bring them back!

The redesigned museum was worth the wait. The new exhibit scheme has a clear narrative and engaging visual displays

The new U of M natural history museum is well organized and much more kid friendly. There’s still a huge amount of the collections from the old museum that aren’t on display which was disappointing but what they did have out was very well put together. There’s clearly space for more exhibits in the future as well. Excited to see what is added.

A beautiful, state of the art facility. Being able to observe and interact with scientists and researchers while they do their job is an amazing experience. Ive never seen any place like this and am truly impressed. Being able to bridge the concepts of a Museum and a research lab is truly valuable to the public and to future scientists, historians, and teachers. Thank you for this monument to public institutions.

Went with our 3 and 4 yo. Everyone had a blast and learned a bunch. I could see kids a little older picking up on more, but our kids loved it!

Fun and interactive exhibits where you can learn about space, michigan, and micro and macro aspects of animal/plant history and science! I would recommend seeing a show in the planetarium :)

A nice and interesting natural science museum on the UMich Campus with decent and interesting exhibits to check out. Although the museum is a bit more geared and tailored toward younger people, especially children, anyone of any ages can have a relatively nice time at the museum.

Even better than the old Dino Museum!

Awesome new building which means all the exhibits are brand new and updated with current knowledge of each subject.

Great museum for families. Hands on items for kids, they have 4 floors with different themes on each. Dinosaurs, Michigan animals and plant life, planetarium shows. Museum is free however they reccommend a $6 donation

Great for the kids. It will be a long wait, but cant wait for the new facility in 2018!

The building atrium with the mastodon pair is light, airy, and open. One floor with exhibits mainly focusing on the dinosaurs and development of human beings. Learn about fossils, biodiversity, evolution, and extinction. Filled with interesting and fun stuff!

Everyone loved it!! Wish there were better signs for parking

Gonna miss the old site, but love the wide open space. Cant wait to go back.

The new location of this museum is wonderful. The facilities are state-of-the-art. The museum feels much more modern, welcoming, and interactive.

On of the best museums I have visited recently. There are several activities for kids and interesting information for adults.

Miss the old building. This one has no sense of history and is so cold by comparison. Not as large as I expected.

Really nice new building, but not all of the exhibits made it over from the old building. Very cool museum tho.

A place which is still developing but gives an amazing experience to kids and adults to cherish. Darwin, Dinosaurs and evolution at its best !! The exhibits have notices which tells you to go ahead and touch and feel a million year old specimen and fossils...it’s surreal!! Most of the student staff are really nice and helpful with days where some scientists sit and talk with visitors.Entry is free...and for the planetarium a nominal fee of 8 dollars. Parking is free on Sunday at the Palmer parking. Park and take the south elevator to the museum or park and take a short 2 minute walk to the main entrance via Washtenaw avenue..An absolute must visit place to take kids for an educational and fun filled day.

The old natural history museum is extinct and the new museum is a disappointing shadow of the original. All the charm and character of the previous museum is absent from this new incarnation.The interior architecture of the new building has vast open areas that are bare and covered in a bleak cold coat of gray paint. Moreover, the space for displays feels extremely minimal. There are a few areas that have yet to open, but even with those spaces it will likely seem barren to people that enjoyed the old museum. The main purpose of the new building is undoubtedly the lab facilities and the university seems to have succeeded in creating a great deal of new modern lab space. However, the amazing Ann Arbor museum that was the University of Michigan Natural History Museum was greatly diminished in the process.

One of the hidden gems around. Truly great place for kids and adults. Multiple levels with a lot of educational stuff. Its free, but hoghy reccomemd leaving a donation! Keep this place flourishing!!

Great little natural history Museum. Much smaller than the Smithsonian, but it felt like it was at the same or nearly the same quality. As an added bonus, it is small enough that you can really take it all in in only one trip. A must see!

Most incredible, hands on exhibits, with university students to help your little ones. Best natural history Museum I’ve ever been to.

New location is across from the old museum. Exhibits are fabulous. Expanded far better than years ago. A plus for kids. Lots of hands on.

Displays and explanations presenting important information are accessible and interesting. Thoroughly enjoyable. I learn something every time I go.

Could have spent all day here what a great experience. Already planning next trip.

A must visit place for anyone who visits Ann Arbor. It has planetarium and dome theater.

Really well done. A great way to spend a morning. Easy parking in the Palmer street garage.

Enjoyable stop on our road trip. Nice fossils exhibit, good display of cultural responsive thinking with the sturgeon.

The museum is small, but very well signed. Plenty of great displays. It is well arranged. A perfect 1 or 2 hour trip. However, do not waste your money on Larry cat in space. At $8 per person, even under two, it is not the best use of your time or money.

Such a cool museum! We had a great experience and loved that they had a connected café.

I loved the old building so its good to see they are renovating/reusing it...but I must say theres lots of new wonderful things to see in the new jaw-dropping facility. Our age range was preschool to seniors and we were all engaged for the two hours we were there. And there were great choices in the cafe and not a rip off!

Small but really interesting things to see. Located in a beautiful part of campus

One floor with exhibits mainly focusing on the dinosaurs and development of the human beings. Good for evolution and fossils research. Planetarium offers very interesting shows throughout the day. Today, we have seen The Black Hole.

We love this museum and have been going to it for a long time. This was our first trip to its new location and we were very impressed. The displays have been greatly updated. Many cars have been added that museum goers can touch allowing us a tactile hands on experience.