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The Museum of the Earth
Category: Arts & Entertainment Museums Museums [Edit]
1259 Trumansburg RdIthaca, NY 14850
(607) 273-6623
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
5 reviews for The Museum of the Earth
5 reviews in English
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Review from L L.
New York, NY
8/17/2011
It is an intimate little museum on the out-skirt of Ithaca - aka Paleontological Research. Good museum with a lot information on the dinosaurs and the history of our own planet. The admission is not expensive and worth a visit if you are in Ithaca.
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Review from L. L.
Orlando, FL
9/10/2010
This is a small but excellent museum. I really liked the timeline-based walkthrough, which put the fossils into context. They also have a "find your own fossil" area, which lets you examine rocks for fossils, then take them home. The focus seems to be on the time periods in which the rocks around Ithaca were formed, which makes sense. They also do field trips to look for fossils for both families and adults.
When I went, there was a traveling exhibit on biodiversity that was pretty good, in addition to the permanent exhibits. -
Review from Heather B.
Centennial, CO
2/25/2008
The Museum of the Earth is an innovative, engaging experience for children ages 5 and up. Interactive exhibits and mind-blowing specimens are a few of the great discoveries behind the Museum's doors. The skeleton of the Right Whale is breath-taking and sad, while the massive Mastodon in the Glacier Exhibit is stunningly HUGE!!
The museum is fairly small and for an adult can be walked through in less than an hour, but the museum's directive goes beyond the specimens and fossils displayed within its walls. Ongoing programs like Fossil Friday, Dinosaur Tales, and annual programs such as Darwin Day and Teacher Resource Day reach into and beyond the Ithaca community, pulling people of all minds together to celebrate the Earth and her history. -
Review from Joe L.
Syracuse, NY
3/16/2009
i can't believe that i went to college at ic and never realized that this museum was here. it was excellent. really interesting displays of dinosaurs, trilobites, and extinct animals. very well done galleries too. i think the whole thing may be a bit too mature of a subject for 5 year-olds to really comprehend and get a grasp on, but they would probably enjoy the giant t-rex skeleton head and such.
my one critique is that i thought that it could have provided a bit more information on darwin himself than what was actually there, but i still enjoyed the museum none the less. i'd say the whole thing can be done in about an hour.
as a young adult, i enjoyed it way better than the science center. AND the museum of the earth was free on this particular sunday. score! -
Review from Steve M.
Orchard Lake Village, MI
5/9/2010
Great for kids of all ages...my son looks forward to it (and even requests it out of the blue). I even find myself "playing" with some of the exhibits. Great for an afternoon.
