We purchased a membership to Thanksgiving Point. If you have little people in your life and live close enough to visit regularly, I highly recommend getting a membership.

Specific to the "Dinosaur Museum" as it is called at my house, we have a 2.5yo dinosaur expert who absolutely lit up exploring this place. Various corners of the museum have kid friendly, hands on activities. Our family favorites include the sand and water box approximately central of the exhibits full of plastic dinosaur toys, a "dinosaur run" video game that entertains my older kids, and the small cave at the beginning of the big dinosaurs room where my kids like to pretend to be dinosaurs themselves.

The museum itself is well organized-- through a loop starting and ending in the lobby-- in a chronological format, beginning well before the classic era of easily recognizable giant lizards and continuing through the ice age of wooley mammoths, monstrous sharks, and 10-foot birds. There is plenty to see and read and informative videos to watch throughout the museum for the more mature patrons. Having run through the museum many (MANY) times with little people in tow, I would absolutely enjoy a kid-free visit to actually study all the placards as I find such things fascinating.

There is a small café in the front lobby of the museum next to a gift shop. You can bring a sack lunch or purchase pretty standard fast food options here. But no food or drinks are allowed in the exhibits.

Periodically, they will have special exhibits at the beginning of the museum loop. Often geared towards children of the elementary and middle school aged variety, I've seen science experiments, maze adventures, and play equipment rotate through this space. I want to say that the website lists the current exhibit and future exhibits on a calendar, but don't hold me to that.