Brevard Museum of History and Natural Science — Attraction in Cocoa

It is a very nice museum dedicated to Brevard’s history The Brevard Museum of History and Natural Science requires you to drive through the edge of a subdivision to get to this site. It has a large parking lot and a fence to separate the lot, building, and trails from the surrounding neighborhood. They have a website and a Facebook page but neither of these do them justice. According to their website, they are, “Home of the Johnnie Johnson nature trails which provide a network of both improved and unimproved hiking trails connected to both Travis Park and the Brevard Museum.” The museum is inside a building that has meeting space, and several exhibit rooms with displays related to Florida and Brevard County's natural history. The building is located on 3.23 acres and has the trails listed above. They have a children's playroom, 2 large full dinosaur models to the left as you enter the building, an Indian display to the immediate right, and an entire wing devoted to the Space program and the Windover Excavation to the far right. The museum may be a little dated but it has wonderful volunteers who are friendly and very knowledgeable. It is free, clean, and has a lot of great information and artifacts about our area. We did not get a chance to try any of the trails but plan to visit another time to see more. They have a scavenger hunt that we read about and saw several people trying to complete while we were there. Overall, it was a very pleasant visit and an experience that I recommend for...

This museum is a must experience!! Staff is super friendly and well educated. I spent over three hours here with my little ones ages 10, 6 and 3. It is absolutely top notch. The exhibits are fanstastic. There is a playroom for kids fully equipped with tree house legos Dinosaurs and a rocket ship they can sit in ... it doesn’t get any better than this! They have real mammoth fossil and tooth in a hands on exhibit that you can touch feel and experience . A space section , a pinoneer exhibit lots of super cool stuff if your into history and Florida history. Most important the miraculous Windover bog people exhibit . Loaded with some hands on exhibit as well as beautiful well presented windover artifacts, photos from the actual dig from the 80s, and a very cool exhibit showing how the bog tribe buried their loved ones. The story is absolutely mind blowing you must check it out go to you tube search “ brain diggers “ for a great documentary covering this. You can also purchase the book written on the archeological info and site filled with pictures and tons of info - a must have for all...

It's worth your search to visit. Nestled behind Easter Florida State College and UCF Campuses follow Michigan Av west of Clearlake almost 1 mile and there it is on your left.

Many treasures of early life in Brevard County and Mosquito County

Learn about how early settlers survived early storms and swarms of mosquitoes when citrus was king. When going to Florida meant a ocean voyage and then sailing down the St John's River and Indian River Lagoon. Then see how the Space Race to the Moon built industries, rockets and communities here on the Space Coast here more than...