Museum of Natural History

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Address:
20 State Park Road, Morro Bay, CA 93442
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Website:
parks.ca.gov

Phone number:
+1 805-772-2694

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Reviews about Museum of Natural History

• Tom Kepler

  Jan, 18 2018
  ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
  Rates a "plus" and a "minus."
  
  My wife and I took our grandkids (ages 3 and 5) to the museum three days in a row. The kids really liked the interactive exhibits and the puppet theater. The older grandson was thrilled to match the stuffed Black Oystercatcher bird with a photograph of the bird with the puppet version of the bird. He also worked his head around taxidermy as "they're alive but they're not now." The main strength of the museum for kids the age of our grandkids was that they interacted with concepts of nature in a positive way.
  
  Not all was positive, though. On the first day, the kids just had fun. They were supervised by us, but the volunteers at the museum allowed them to interact in a natural way, as kids their age naturally would. On the second and third trips, though, the senior citizen volunteers (one each day) clearly were upset and overwhelmed by their energy and spoke sharply and critically to them. I'm retired myself and do volunteer work, so I applaud those helping out at the museum. However, when the volunteers become so attached to the museum that they can't stand to see kids interacting in the manner the museum was designed for, then that definitely becomes a minus. Otherwise, the museum vibe descends to being a great place for the volunteers and not-so-great for the visitors. We would rate the museum as a five-star experience except for the dampening effect of the two over-controlling volunteers we experienced.

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