A great museum! Figured this one to be the second best Ive ever been to. Very well put together and had some really nice exhibits. The simulated tornado room is absolutely amazing and is a must see! Take the time to go outside and get pics of the Frisco stream engine train and old passenger train depot. Worth the drive and worth the admission.

This is a great museum to go with family. Lots of hand on activities that adult would enjoy them too. We came a little bit late (Friday at 3pm) and they closes at 5pm but not lot of visitors so we enjoyed every single activities. There are still so much we wanted to explore at this museum. Definitely recommended.

I enjoyed the museum, lots of interactive displays, the tornado alley display was awesome, the girls screamed it gave you just a sense of what going through something like that would be like. The fella in the old trading post really knew his stuff, we spent about an hour in their and the kids really enjoyed it...even as teens lol, sixty bucks for six folks it was worth the trip.

Nice little museum. Has an inside and outside to it. Big enough and enough to see to burn about 2 hours of the day. The admission is reasonable and the building is comfortable to walk around inside of even with all the covid scare. Staff was friendly. Displays are nice and interesting without being too wordy. Kids activities line the edges and second floor.

What a great place, with all of the hands on activities your kids will love it. The tornado simulator maybe a bit much for younger children but as for the rest its a must. The staff was knowledgeable and friendly. The souvenir store was a bit small and as a result it didnt offer much. Overall its a place where learning is fun.

We enjoyed this museum immensely. I think we read every little detail thats inside this museum. And we are glad that they where open during Labor Day. The gift shop has a lot of interesting finds. Bought some really cool shirts. And some dream catchers. Overall a great day to learn about how Oklahoma was millions of years prior to present day.

This museum was very informative. I liked it so much that I visited twice in a few days.

Awesome place! Family oriented. It has very knowledgeable employees. What impressed me the most was the tornado simulator. It is a “shelter” where you go in just as you would around here. It is intense, so I wouldn’t go in with very young children. It can be scary. Also, lots of interactive games for kids. It reminds me of a children’s museum,but it also has very interesting things to learn for the parents. A must visit.

This is one of the best hidden treasures of Lawton. There is so much to play and explore here. My kids could come here repeatedly and not get bored. Everything is hands on, made for children to learn and explore. Comfy chairs are placed throughout which makes it pleasant for parents. Staff was friendly, too!

Really great museum, very informative and entertaining. The exhibit about the tornado outbreak in, I believe, 1978 or 79 was jaw dropping. If you go, you have to sit down and listen to the heart wrenching stories and with the effects and the replica basement you are in, its incredibly immersive. I had goose bumps. All the exhibits are very educational, especially for someone who has lived on the east coast my entire life. The outside exhibits are equally well done. A must if youre in or around Lawton. One of the better museums Ive been to. Id give 10bstars if they were available.

Fun four or five hours! We kept trying to tear ourselves away to get to a function, but kept doing one more exhibit! Fun! Bring the kids!

Tons of hands of stuff for kids of ALL ages. Bright, airy and open. Super friendly staff.

Nice historical view prairie dogs outsid e

Awesome time...bunch of little stations to do stuff....tornado room was great

This place is awesome! They cover a very broad time spectrum and for a small museum it is very well done. Be sure to visit the displays outside and the fort. Tim Poteet is an awesome interpreter and you wont find anyone more knowledgeable about their respective subject matter.

Amazing place with great history for older people with great kid area

This museum was truly awesome. We didnt even get through the entire thing before the children were too tired to learn anymore. The staff was awesome and they also offer discounts to people who are low income and receive snap benefits. (which I thought was very awesome) Great place to take kids eager to learn.

Visiting my son stationed here he wanted to take his 4 year old niece. You could spend hours here and be entertained the whole time. My favorite was the tornado simulator and the newspaper origin exhibit. The mini settlement area literally felt like you stepped back in time.The building and creating areas were most fun for the 4 year old. She really had a great time. We spent $37.00 total for entry fee. Military discounts applied. Theres also age 62 and up discount. Its a great time for the whole family.

Very nice museum! Great for kids.

Good place for kids. Great history for adults

Loved going here. Been twice. First time was around 2016 or so when they still had the prairie dogs running around in front of the museum. They are now gone,and the museum has been remodeled since my first visit. Still a great museum, seems more kid friendly now than my first visit.

Great museum! I would highly recommend checking it out if you are in Lawton.

Pleasantly surprised by this museum in Lawton. Its just the perfect size i would say, where you can spend anywheere from 1 - 3 hours and get your moneys worth. Really infomrative if you are new to the area, including a tornado simulator which was pretty cool. Also had a descent sized childrens educational / science portion which would be great for those with kids.

Its a great place to visit with family

So. Much. Fun! A ton of information that was interactive for all my kids (18 down to 3) start early and outside because youll be thankful for the cool air inside

I loved this place so much!

Wonderfully educational and fun. I usually loathe our museum trips but this one was stellar. We discovered anatomy of bison, made our own leather art and stamps, explored settlements and ways of life, learned hands on about wind turbines, and the tornado basement simulator was absolutely accurate, though many Oklahomans can tell you that.

Place is always great to take kids to

Excellent museum. With many interesting exhibits for both adults and children. And substantial activity and play areas for children. Well done. 5 stars.

I went by myself and loved it. I wish my grandkids were with me!

A lot to see and do!Being able to take apart a bison and discuss how Native Americans used every piece was an interesting hands-on activity.My favorite part was the tornado simulation room - I have never seen anything like it. A native of Oklahoma, I have been in and around several tornados, and it is lifelike. However, if you have a fearful kid, don’t take them - totally freaked my daughter out (6); my 4-year-old son caught on and could handle it, but after asking if tornados were really “in this world,” and being told yes, he proceeded to pray to God to take them “out of this world.” You can lasso a cow, go shopping for items in a grocery store, make your own brand, practice working with leather, dig on a cite, play with sand and see how it affects the area geographically (my kids’ favorite), build parachutes, and much more! I wish there had been a monitor or two to help us in the hands-on STEM room (like at the OKC museum); would have been helpful for us less science-minded folks to have some guidance (hence the 4 stars).

Well maintained museum with lots of interactive activities for kids and adults. There is a simulation of a tornado thats very realistic. Im glad we stopped in.

Very good museum on the Great Plains and a lot of interactive stations. Great for kids and adults. My wife and I along with my mother had a really good time.

It was very nice exhibits, it was all well spaced. Tons of hands on children activities. I removed 1 star because honestly the history seems a little sugar coated.

Most underrated place ever. Their exhibits are awesome and well done. The staff is friendly and kind.

This is one of the BEST places to take the family! It is a very hands-on, fun and educational experience for kids and adults of ALL ages. This was our second trip, and we will continue to come back every few years as our kids grow. They love it... and so do we!!!

Great place to visit! Surprised by the amount of hands on, interactive things for the kids. My kids loved it so much, they asked to go back before we even left the first time.

Top notch! Excellent presentation of historical and current everyday life in Lawton and Southwest Oklahoma. Fun for the kids with hands-on activities and fun for the whole family. Family membership, for up to five, $99.00 is a bargain.

Very nice museum! Enjoyed my visit!

Amazing. We spent a couple hours and the kids didnt get to everything. I love love love all the hands on exhibits. The tornado simulator seemed vividly real. It was so good that we bought the family membership on the way out.

This was a wonderful experience. The large buffalo with the organ parts is the best

Outstanding displays of Indian life.Pleased by the 1830-1850 outside fort encampment. The Trading Post was authentic and elaborate.Surprised by the hands on early 1900s rooms showing typical local newspaper, leather shop, general store, doctors office.With the kids play/ learn areas on the second floor, it was like 3 museums in one.

Great museum. Interactive and very educational.

Great children’s museum. Plenty of things for the kids, and they usually have one rotating exhibit that keeps the museum new and interesting. Never knew it was geared towards kids until a friend told me about it. Definitely worth the trip!

Excellent for children. Wonderful learning experience.

Super cool place and very educational. Good stuff about the Great Plains of our country.

Amazing Museum That Gives A Up close and Interactive Way To Understand Exactly What Life Was Like. Displays Were Amazing. Museum Staff was Very Knowledgeable and Friendly!

Educational and we enjoyed the tornado exhibit

Glad I stopped in for a visit. It is a great museum with interesting and hands-on experience. I really enjoyed the Tornado experience. The folks at the trading outpost replica were very knowledgeable about the history. Very interesting to hear them talk about the place. Worth the stop if you are near.

Always such a great place to take our little one on a super hot day, rainy day or just something to break our routine up a bit. They change out their interactive room a lot and we always love the choices they make to help kids learn about so many different things (bugs, dinosaurs, etc.) Definitely worth the money and we find something new there everytime. Good job, Lawton!

Very beautiful place

I was surprised at how good this was. It is fun for adults and kids. Lots of unique things and well thought out exhibits. I totally would go again and recommend it to anyone. The Tornado video was especially well done.

Great place to learn about the history of Oklahoma, clean, friendly and helpful staff, lots Hands-On exhibits...

Wow what an experience. So much to do as everything is interactive. You can literally spend a whole day here. Impressed

We bought a family membership here and have been several times. My kids (ages 9, 7, and almost 4) all love different aspects of it as there is so much to do, including areas to just play. The staff is very friendly and helpful, the restrooms are always clean, and there is a room for traveling exhibits so there is always something new to see and do.

What an amazing museum! We had a blast! We didnt even get to see the entire place before it closed! Tornado theater with sound, lighting and vibrating effects! Very interactive. Kept my 2 year olds attention too! It was great to be able to read about important native Americans of this area. We will definitely be back over and over again! Cant wait to take our visiting family here!

So much to learn and do here! Friendly staff and extremely helpful!

Very impressive exhibits inside. Be sure to catch the re-enactment of daily life in the trading post outside.

I like the sand box with the fossels

Neat museum with super friendly workers. Was great talking to the gentlemen outside by the old cabin/fort. Got a few good laughs in with them.

Wow! This is a really cool museum. We visited with 4 adults and 5 children ages 1-11. We all had a great time.The exhibits are all interactive so all of us had a great time. Its also very educational. I learned a lot about this areaBut I was most impressed with the quality of each exhibit. They must have some very talented curators. There were so many beautiful and fascinating details. The tornado exhibit was especially moving.Im really grateful we visited. It is well worth making the trip.

Wow! What a gem in Lawton. This is a great place for kids and adults. I went as a late twenties person on my own and loved it. There are tons of interactive exhibits and you really get a feel for how people have lived in this area throughout history. This is a must see for anyone living in or visiting Lawton.

This place was easy to find. A very clean site, with polite people there to help or show us around. Definitely will gu o back! Thank you!

What a wonderful place. Highly recommend visiting here.

Cool place

This was a nice stop on a long road trip.

Excellent museum. Friendly and knowledgeable staff. Very well put together and high quality exhibits.

Had a wonderful event there. Absolutely wonderful!

This is a spacious well kept museum. The exhibits are informative. Some are interactive. It is fairly inexpensive.

The tornado exhibit was really cool! And my kids loved the interactive STEM activities upstairs.

Our family all enjoyed the museum. My kids enjoyed the many interactive exhibits. The adults enjoyed the tornado theater and the wide variety of local history exhibits and artifacts. The exhibits cover from the pre- settlement history of the area through the present day, with a focus on native American history through the 1930s. Highly recommended.

Very interesting, lots of interactive displays. Very kid friendly.

Great place to catch Pokemon. Plenty of Pokestops and Gyms in the park area.

This was a very cool place to visit. Very interesting.

Really nice museum for kids and adults. It is one of the nicer museums I have visited. Very cool displays and artefacts.

Its awesome, if you go there with kid your going to spend at least 3 hours having a good time, I recommend it 100%

What a beautiful museum!!! Loved the floor tile of Oklahoma and the ability to magnify cities

We love visiting here! Its very hands on. My kids live there tornado room and the general store they can play in. The trading Post they gave set up outside now is awesome. The guys who run it are great with the kids and very informative. Id definitely recommend checking it out.

This a a fun museum for all ages. They have stuff to read on all the exhibits for those who want to take it slow, and fun interactive things to do for those who are more hands on.Also, they have a great deal for a membership that includes other museums in the state thats worth looking into.

It is a fun museum for everyone! Dinosaurs, weather, native American traditions, early American life, and fun activities around every corner! One of the best museums and places to learn.

I wish that I would have known sooner that this is actually a childrens museum! Everything is hands on for the kids & there is even an art & science area upstairs. Its pretty much the best thing to do in Lawton with little kids.

One of my kids favorite local museums. They could spend hours playing and using their imaginations here. So thankful for a local place to enjoy on cold or rainy days!

A great place to bring the family! There are many exhibits that are interesting to adults and children. The rotational exhibits also made the museum a great place to visit many times. My daughter loves all the interactive and hands on exhibits.

Lots of fun and educational exhibits/activities for the kids. Mostly indoors, so fun even in inclement weather. My kids range from 1 - 9 years, and they were all engaged the whole time!

Cool place to seeLots of interactive exhibits for kids and adults

Very good place to have fun and look at all the amazing history .

The newly renovated Great Plains Museum is great. Much to do and see, inside and out.

Interesting displays for hands on experience.

Attended wedding reception, so the photos are not mine to post, but the venue was incredible!

The staff are always friendly and helpful. The exhibits are really cool and detailed but becoming a little monotonous. Some things arent working well and other things arent working at all. Most exhibits are detailed and in working order though. We have a family membership and our kids are getting a little older so that could be a reason why were getting bored here. Definitely would recommend a membership if you have younger kiddos.

Such a beautiful renovated space! Thank you so much to the museum for hosting the 2017 OMA conference after hours dinner. The interractive exhibits and hands on learning in this place is amazing! Very kid friendly and great for every type of learner!

Place was really cool RDR2 fans get ur butts out there and check it out

We only had 90 minutes but a great little museum.

Enjoyed Free Day with the family!

Great place to hang out and learn. Staff is very helpful and friendly. My family loves this place.

I was suprised to find this great museum in Lawton. There are some great exhibits like the wheat grass root scroll and the Tornado Theatre. The tornado exhibit was first class. Admission is worth it for that alone.The outdoor exhibits were great too. The interpreter inside the mock general store was very knowledgeable. It was like stepping back in time complete with burning wood fire.Check out the prairie dogs in the field outside the museum.

Very interesting history, informative. Tornado exhibit is cool, a little eerie...cool effects. I liked it

This is a GREAT place to bring the family. Excellent hands on learning experiences in science, engineering and art as well as local and Oklahoma history. The entry fee is reasonable and the staff is helpful, friendly and knowledgeable. Nearly every exhibit and hands on activity is ADA accessible. The only one that wasnt when we visited was a traveling exhibit.

Pretty good kids museum, a lot of local info on the Lawton area also. Trading post operator was very knowledgeable, front desk clerk was. very welcoming

This place is so awesome, I took my 32 year old daughter and her boyfriend here, and omg, we had the most fun, this museum has ALOT of exciting things that you can do and see, if you are looking for something that the whole family can do together, then you will not have to look anywhere else, it would be so easy to spend that whole day here. and the price is $10 for adults, very well worth the money, I differently will go back one day. And be sure to visit the gift shop, love it, I loved it very much.