New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

This museum is absolutely excellent for the price of admission. $ 7 to get in and they have a positively awesome collection. Their collection of dinosaur skeletons and prehistoric fossils is fantastic.
I love the way they have the exhibits set up in a «walk through time» fashion. Basically you start at the Big Bang and work your way through the different eras of time in chronological order. It is such an inventive way to lay out a natural history museum.
I have to admit that I ended up coming here only 2 hours before they closed so my visit was a bit rushed and I didn’t get to see everything or spend as much time in some areas as I would have liked. You could easily spend a whole day at this museum. I would love to come back and spend at least several hours here going through everything again more slowly.
As I said earlier their dinosaur skeletons are great. They have a full sized T-​Rex on display in the main hall when you first come in. They also have several other well known dinosaurs on display including a humongous apatosaurus. They even have seismosaurus, the world’s largest dinosaur. One exhibit I really found cool in the dinosaur section on the walk through time was the mini theater simulating the experience of the massive asteroid believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs. Very well done.
The museum also has a large theater for viewing movies for an extra admission price. I can’t stress enough how great this museum is for its amazingly low cost of admission.

AWESOME! Great dinosaur and space exhibits. Everything is laid out beautifully. Something for every age. My three year old was in heaven watching the three «moving» dinosaurs upstairs. Caught a Wild Africa 3D documentary in the imax – a bit pricey ($ 7 each for a 40 minute show in addition to your entrance fee) but I’d say worth the experience. Definitely recommend this one!

I had not been here in a long time. One of the things to remember is that this museum is popular with kids. There is a great exhibit about the development of the computers in Albuquerque that is a flashback to the past. While entrance fees are not expensive there is additional fees form the different shows that you can see. Overall it is a great place for the entire family.

I’m not the biggest science geek around, but I do enjoy a good lecture from time to time. I purchased a $ 6 ticket online and swung by on a Tuesday night. The check-​in was a bit disorganized. Whoever had the tickets and cash wasn’t there yet (I showed up 20 minutes early), so we all hung out in the lobby and I even had time to take a selfie with the T-​Rex. Eventually the person showed up, but to my dismay I waited in line for a purple post-​it. Really? That’s the ticket we were waiting for?
The lecture was in a new classroom, down a wing that apparently just opened to the public. The seats were okay, but unfortunately if one person in your row is fidgety, your seat will move along with them. Ugh. Within minutes, the room was completely packed full of residents and students, with just a few seats to spare. While I did enjoy the professor’s lecture, I equally enjoyed the smart questions that the audience asked. It was like being back in college for a discounted price.
I definitely look forward to my next trip to NM so I can explore the museum during regular hours.

The computer exhibit is worth the price of admission if that sounds like something that would interest you.
Another highlight is onsite working fossil research lab.
Overall good natural history displays.

This is a terrific museum, filled with a vast array of artifacts, astronomy displays, dinosaur remains, etc. — it gives a remarkable sense of perspective on the history of the earth, plus the volunteer docents are all knowledgeable and friendly — what’s not to like? We were surprised at the scope of the place, given the fact that ABQ isn’t exactly a mega-​tropolis?! Plan on spending at least an entire afternoon if you want to see everything!

I am visiting from Seattle, WA: We came here through a family compromise between this and the nuclear history museum. Regardless I was glad we came here instead. Admission is less than $ 10 a person for adults, the dinosaur exhibit is exceptionally impressive (coming from a Seattlite who has no dinosaur museum of his own) and the live fish and space exhibits really made this more special than i expected

My family LOVES this museum. We have a family membership and it’s worth the cost. If you are a dinosaur freak you’ll love it.

We attended the NYE party here and had a great time exploring the museum. We had no idea there were large dinosaur bones on display here as well as a lot of other exhibits. We had a great time and saw a lot of neat things. We were really glad to have attended the event and spend a few hours exploring the natural history museum and the explora center.

Kinda seems like the whole museum was put together with things you’d find in the basement of the Alamo… with Pee-​Wees bicycle.

I love this place! I go every couple years, and it always has new and interesting exhibits to see. I love all the minerals and of course the DINO exhibit. The giftshop is kinda expensive, but that’s everywhere nowadays. I love the IMAX and I love that they have special Adult Only nights. I don’t have children, I don’t want children, so it is SOOOO nice to get to explore with out the screaming snotty hoards! RARE this day and age. Great place for kid though, I admit. If they would just allow me to bring my hounds in it would get a 5 star

I have to say after visiting the museum for several hours yesterday, I am really surprised to see so many 4 and 5 star reviews. This museum is outdated, broken down and not kid friendly at all. More than half of the interactive exhibits didn’t work, or weren’t completely functional. Several of the staff members were horrible to us throughout the day. The kids I brought were really disappointed every time they would come to an interactive and it wouldn’t work. Someone seriously needs to start maintaining the exhibits at this museum. Several of their bathrooms were not ADA compliant. Overall, I won’t be bringing my child back to this museum until they seriously fix large portions of their very outdated exhibits.

I love the Natural History Museum. I find myself getting way more excited than any kid I take there. This is probably because I tragically untether these children from technology for an hour to see the outside world.
The Natural History Museum is great. You can see dinosaur bones, touch petrified wood, walk into a volcano, a cave, take a really sad elevator ride through time, see snakes, and learn so much about the world that once was and now is. It is a small museum, so you don’t have to take out an entire chunk of time in your day for an outing, but it is totally work the hour or two you spend here. They also have a really great Imax theatre where different movies show throughout the day and they do get new ones in pretty regularly. It’s never packed, but always a great learning experience.
However, this journey through time has some obvious wear and tear on exhibits. The thick layer of New Mexico dust shows and the broken sad exhibits just want some lovin’. There was a sad attempt to update the museum by adding some sort of touch screen devices, that according to me, just look crappy. It also doesn’t give children the real hands on experience that parts of the museum used to have, like the marble maze, the eggs, the meteorite, or other parts of the museum that you get to use your senses to learn instead of swiping fingers on a screen. Whatever way it’s going to happen though, this museum really really needs an update. This is a great spot and a great experience and It would be wonderful if it were around for years to come.

Ideal for +8 years old.
Like hello! Who doesn’t like museums?
I like the «Gross» exhibit they have on the second floor. I truly learned a lot about our bodily functions, through diagrams and games! Yuck!
This is worth checking it out ESPECIALLY if your a New Mexican! You get in for free every Sunday of the month.
Also, keep in mind that everyone is trying to get in on the deal so try getting there really early so you can do everything before the crowd get there around 10ish.

Our kids really enjoyed seeing the dinosaur exhibits. Great way to spend a couple of hours that provides entertainment and educational benefits as well.

What a way to promote visits to your local Natural History museum by hosting Adult Night at the Museum on New Year’s Eve.
The event was very well planned and we had so much fun looking through the exhibits. Luckily for us, the observatory was open so we got to see Jupiter and her 4 moons. I would say our Natural History Museum had one of the best exhibit about electronics that I have ever seen. Altair 8080 you have inspired me to do more innovation here in this state!
Spending New Year’s Eve with the Dinosaurs was so much fun. The exhibit is just amazing and I know I would love to go back for other special exhibits.
For such a small museum, they sure do pack in bunch of stuff that I had hoped to see.

What a well thought out museum. The $ 7.00 admission is well worth it. The theme rooms exit out and flow into the next and the next and before you know it, you are on the second floor via display floors gradually rising via ramps.
Lots of dinosaur bones, skeletons, fossils. Rooms for animals of New Mexico, historic aquatic life, volcanoes, rock & gem formations, astrological displays and more. They have interactive displays to keep the kids interested also. Really nice museum.
I happened to look on their events page and they were giving a gem/​stone wire wrapping class to make jewelry! Wow! Only $ 35. including all material. There was a ½ hour lecture about how the different rocks and gems are made and excavated. Very interesting. Then a class teaching us how to make a pendant, bracelet, and earrings. The teacher, Camille, from Creative Wire was very generous with her supplies and attention. A really great class. Check out her website if you’re in the area. She will hold classes for a group or individuals.

Titanic exhibit was very interesting. We really enjoyed reading the stories of the people on the ship and seeing the items recovered. The gift shop at the end of the exhibit was a bit expensive. After the exhibit we had a nice stroll around the museum and enjoyed the learning experience about NM Natural History.

This has to be my FAVORITE dinosaur museum EVER!
I have traveled the world and try to get to as many dinosaur exhibits as possible. I must say that this place never disappoints me.
There is something for everyone. From the little kids to the adults who can’t pronounce the dinosaur names, to the elderly folk in the gift shoppe.
Where else can you walk through a volcano, ride a time machine, stare googley eyed at the HUGE skeletons and get lunch in the same place?
Take your date, take your kids, go by yourself. Either way you will have a blast and memories to share for a lifetime. Enjoy!
RAWR!

I have discovered quite possibly the greatest invention mankind has ever devised, and it resides in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History. I share this with my friends on Unilocal with the trusted assurance that this triumph of human achievement will be broadcast far and wide, so that the untold masses should one day experience the glory and individual epiphany which can only be achieved within the confines of this spectacular craft.
That’s right, it’s a craft, inside the museum. I really can’t give anything else away, you must go see it yourself. I’ll put it this way: it’s an ultra-​futurized TARDIS.
Ready for it?
Go experience the EVOLATOR.
God has a name.

Yay!!! What a gem! I remember going to this museum as a child (when it very first opened) and for some reason don’t remember being impressed by it. Many moons have since passed and I now have a 2 year old so I decided to give it another try. I must say that I was disappointed that I missed all those years of not coming here. My 2 year old LOVED everything here and so did I. Walked in to see a huge robotic T-​Rex exhibit that really set the stage for the remainder of the museum. We spent about 1 ½ hours here (the girl has a short attention span) which could easily have been longer had we stopped at all the exhibits. There is a cute little café next to the gift shop area however we didn’t eat there. They have reasonably priced souvenirs at the gift shop.
Overall a really great experience that New Mexicans (and visitors!) definitely need to take advantage of.