The Palm Beach Museum of Natural History — Attraction in Loxahatchee Groves

I had read all the reviews so I wasn't expecting a huge museum. After visiting it i think the "museum " label sounds misleading. I would call it a prehistory experience/exhibit with lecture. (Or similar)

I really like the concept of a place born to exhibit the owners' passion and their personal achievements. I also found the tour very informative and rich in content.

We were a group of 4 adults with 4 children: 18, 24 months, who didn't pay to enter, 4 and 5 years old. The children had fun drawing and playing in the play area. While two adults could participate to the tour, the other two adults took care of the kids (there's a lot that the kids shouldn't be touching, and obviously that is to them the most attractive object. also, a lot is at child hand level. One adult MUST be with them all the time.

I was expecting to be able to choose the language the tour would be explained, but we weren't offered that option. As someone commented in a review the guided tour can be very long and tiring if what you hear is new. For this reason we asked our guide to interrupt it. We were all hungry and the children had had enough of waiting. They had expected to see dinosaur statues and they were confused.

I am giving 3 stars because I still find this place a great place to visit for dinasour passionate, but only if older than 5 (possibly 6?).

We really expected something more inclusive for the whole family. The two parents "babysitting" had no dinasour experience. The children's dinasour experience was playing with dinasour figurines, magnets, or coloring dinosaur prints; but it wasn't enough to leave them unattended, so that the parent could partecipate to the guided tour. I feel like they could get the same experience at home.

The best experience you can get is listening to the guide, if you don't have small children to look after or to chase around. I would recommend the tour for older kids and adults. But still, that is not enough to call this...

The storefront "museum" has a decent amount of material for being in a relatively small area, I had no issues with the exhibits themselves they were neat and informative. However what I did find issue with was with my self appointed tour guide who took it upon herself to give me an hour lecture without asking. Which I also would have loved had it been educational- but my tour guide presented me with wildly incorrect statements that directly contradicted what was written on the exhibits at times. Such claims included that T.rex could run at speeds of 60mph, triceratops could grow to over 50ft long (shoutout to the estimate size graph that was on display there that had triceratops length in the mid 20's ft), that the other display featured a "nanoraptor" (it said on the display it was a juvenile T.rex), claiming that crocodilians did not live alongside dinosaurs, not knowing that prehistoric birds existed while clumsily explaining the fact that birds are descendants of dinosaurs, etc, etc. I'm no expert in the field but a very dedicated hobbyist, so of course I am not going to try and correct staff who work there, but I left the museum frustrated and baffled at the level of misinformation being touted. I am sure that not everything was false, but I could no longer trust anything she said due to such glaring errors, and in turn the entire experience was ruined for me. Will certainly be making a point to never...

Really cool place to see. Took the kids this afternoon. So much to explore & learn and we got to find REAL shark teeth!!

The county once had Mastodons roaming around.We got to see the skeleton of a Saber Tooth Cat and a Raptor. The museum also has Cheryll the Triceratops! Cheryll is a 20 ft long triceratop. She was found mainly intact. She was from. Upper Hell Creek Formation, which is less than a million years old before the K-T asteroid impact is thought to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.

There was a perfect fossil of an extinct Dino. A baby T-rex standing about 4 feet tall.

You should see the evolution of time in animals. The crocodilian is similar to today's Crocs and Gators. The T-rex with feathers that turned more into wings. The Saber Tooth cats turn more into humans.

We also saw an elephant skull. BTW: we did get to touch real teeth, claws, bones, skulls, and more at the museum. We also learned about the end of times for dinosaurs and the ice ages, the depths of the ocean, large sea creatures that exist, and even their predators we don't know about entirely.

Really cool info to learn about the history of Earth and Palm Beach County. So much to learn about our history. What a fun find, right here at home. 10/10 recommend for kids into STEM!

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