The Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center — Attraction in Great Falls

Today at 1:30 ish I took my 4 kids to the museum to do the scavenger hunt. We have been many times. The experience doing the scavenger hunt was a wonderful with my young children. Unfortunately when we first got there we were met by and elderly lady with short hair working the counter who said if my youngest kids (4-6-7 yo ) wanted more than a pencil out of the treasure box they had to do their own scavenger hunt which includes 10 items on each page you have to find. Also this has never been the case going there. She than fallowed it up by saying she knows my children are going to cheat on the hunt. Fallowing the scavenger she was incredibly rude to my oldest child who took pictures of the things he found instead of selfies (which wasn't an issue the previous times ) . While I was taking photos of my 3 youngest kids which was a total of 30 pictures, my oldest (12 yo ) went off on his own to take pictures of his scavenger hunt finds with his phone. At the end this lady asked my son if he was in school and he said yes so she made my son read the instructions on the paper and asked the other kids if they think he should get a gift out of the treasure box when he didn't follow the "instructions". I express to her that I'm one parent there with 4 kids to which I was taking selfies for the 3 youngest already.... I find her behavior to be extremely rude. Not all of the things in the scavenger hunt are located in places that you can take selfies with. She needs to be taught how to speak to young children with kindness and understanding. Very...

We were traveling through on our way to Alaska and stopped here to visit the center. Amazing! There is afee to enter, however if you hold the America the Beautiful pass, senior pass or military pass, or any of the other federal passes, you enter for free. The history here was so enlightening. We learned things we did not know. They have movies throughout the day on different subjects. We arched the one on the Portage. So interesting. You can enter the theater from the upper or lower level. The exhibits in the center were very informative. The exhibits are mostly on the lower level. There are stairs or you can take an elevator. There are items of interest outside and a fantastic walking path along the Missouri River. The staff was so wonderful. There is also a small gift shop. I collect magnets so I was able to pick one up. There is a great covered picnic area over near the teepee that you can enjoy lunch or a snack. After we visited the center, we knew we had to drive out to the Great Falls waterfall, which we wouldn't have known about if we hadn't stopped here. If you are coming to stay in Great Falls or just passing through, you really need...

It was a very informative and designed presentation.

The building and the outside entrance areas are very unfriendly to the elderly and disabled. I used a walker yesterday and the entrance into the area is rough and uneven. The rugs as you enter the building bunched up under the wheels of my walker almost causing me to trip. There are two benches outside by the entrance that are very uncomfortable to sit on as they have almost a marble kind of material. They are also very close to the ground making it hard to get up and to sit down.

After taking the elevator to their theater area it was scary how steep the stairs and seating is. Once you get the seat folded down it is a drop to sit down. In walking Lewis and Clark's trail there are NO handails and benches to rest are few and far between.

It is my opinion that this building needs to be more...