McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture — Attraction in Knoxville

First off, go to the website so receive your free admission to the museum. You can't enter it unless you have valid tickets.

Now ok... I get that this museum is to preserve history we all understand this concept. But what I don't get is that more than half of the Native American artifacts in this section was removed by Tribes because it was viewed "incorrectly." Instead of having a Tribe member being in the museum to inform people they just removed the artifacts entirely from public eye. How I would do it, inform and educate rather than take down things. Just very odd to me.

The bottom half of the museum (after you walk down the stairs) is interesting although the theory that we came from "apes" is uh... A different topic.

It's a nice sized museum, very clean, quiet and people are respectfully when going into each section.

P.S, if a Baseball game is nearby and they charge for parking let them know that you're visiting the museum not the game so you can get in to park. If not, you'll get charged $20 to park for free.

It's far better than the Knoxville Museum of Art, now that's a different...

We love this museum! My husband and I go a few times a year. It's a fun trip for natural history and traveling exhibitions that begins before you go in the door with dinosaurs and rocks and other natural formations from as far back as 480 million years ago. Then you walk in the door and it's a self led tour. There are maps to guide you. It takes us a couple hours and we love to browse slowly and really look at everything. There isn't really a kids section so idk if kids would enjoy it. We don't have any but I wouldn't take my small child there because of the delicate items in a museum and because I don't think they'd have fun. There is parking close to the building and I don't remember ever having to pay for parking. I would avoid this area on football game Saturdays at Neyland, traffic isn't worth it. Otherwise its a great place to visit and if you live in the area and never havd been how disappointing. You are missing out and should take...

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