Reviews of Earth Sciences Museum (Tourist Attraction)

TC K

It's got a dinosaur and waterfall

Eljacks McMac

Good place for the kids!!!Free.

Jeff Bain

Lots of very interesting, beautiful rocks and minerals on display, as well as information and displays about dinosaurs and the water cycle

Deepak Vishnu D

Nice place to go. Kids will like it.

Matthew Phillips

A really nice place to get some work done.

Dick Dickerson

This place is really really cool. They have a huge block of petrified salt or something from hundreds of thousands of years ago and one of my friends decided to see if it's still salty and damn it was.

Andrew Broome

Always fun for your little lithophiles.

Deb Jasinski

I've been bringing my kids here since they were small. It's a little treasure tucked inside the university. If you luck out and get to meet Prof Peter Russel (retired but still very active at the museum), you are in for a real treat!!

Mou Rabee

Magnificent

Brian Bartlett

Great place to learn.

Jessica Dineen

I have a lab in the same building, so I walk through the museum a lot. Not a bad way to spend a half hour, enjoying the contents (rocks, minerals, fossils, mine tunnel exhibit), good for all ages. If you come specifically for the museum aspects, consider also looking at the displays in the biology building (third floor)

Audrianna Moore

How did I not know this existed!!! I stumbled upon it while playing PokemonGo and had the chance to explore a bit. Some of the exhibits were closed since it was after hours but a lot of the display cases are accessible. This place is COOL. Lots of pretty and interesting rocks, fossils, and exhibits to read about and see. Next time I'm there I need to check and see if there is a donation box because I wont hesitate to donate next time I'm there!

Sai Rijal

Have all my classes here. Could be worse.

Marta Borowska

Pretty cool little museum! Dinos and things.

Lloyd Torres

Lots of interesting and informative exhibits! The lecture hall is pretty good too, had a lot of classes there this term. The cafe had a decent selection of pastries.

Jason Sager

Fantastic. Every parent should take their children, or even just them selves. It is a great resource for the community that is free. It's exactly the kind of thing a university should be doing.

Paul Stickney

Likely the best free entertainment (beyond a park) to bring the kids in Waterloo. A few interactive exhibits, and enough to see for young and old.

성민박

They have some fake plastic fossils

Mercè Guerrero Sala

Nice and interesting museum, lots of minerals, fòssils, rocks...

JJamali

These rocks rock haha

Michael Rayner

Well worth a visit. It's not easy to find but it is very interesting for people who like natural history.

Andrew Myles

Great rocks

Zhandos Tolepov

(Translated) Nice place for kids excursion (Original) Хорошее место для экскурсии детей

Christopher Donaldson

Fun for kids, but not a destination.

Josalyn Radcliffe

Lots to do for a smallish free museum and lots of space. Cafe upstairs has a good variety of snacks. The whole bottom floor is full of info boards and creative integration of learning (walking up the stairs, you move from prehistoric to modern times). My kids had a lot of fun, but it's not super razzle dazzle- they like gems and nature so it was just right.

Jiaqing Pan (Canada 家庆)

(Translated) Earth Science Museum "Earth Science Museum" The University of Waterloo Earth Science Museum is open to be enjoyed by people of all ages. No matter what your level of learning, the museum serves to amaze the general public, elementary and high school groups, and university students alike. The University of Waterloo "Earth Science Museum" is open to anyone of any age. Regardless of your level of learning, the museum will amaze everyone, elementary school students, middle school students, and college students. (Original) Earth Science Museum "地球科学博物馆" The University of Waterloo Earth Science Museum is open to be enjoyed by people of all ages. No matter what your level of learning, the museum serves to amaze the general public, elementary and high school groups, and university students alike. 滑铁卢大学 "地球科学博物馆" 向任何年龄的人士开放。 无论你的学习水平如何，博物馆都会让大家、小学生、中学生以及大学生惊叹不已。

Matthew Trask

it rocks

Jane Pangilinan

Love it

Albert Lau

A great museum of earth science inside campus

chad lloyd

Cool place

T.G_I AM

Great place to visit, the grandkids Loved it

Ryan Han

good vibe

Adrian Machado

Great museum, always cold though

Jesse Osmond

Cool looking building... bot sure why anyone would come here unless your a student at the university though.

Chris Edwards

Awesome little exhibit that is bigger than it seems. Worth a visit.

Kevin Swayze

History and geology on display in a working university space -- with a decent coffee shop on the mail floor near a display of dinosaur bones. Jurassic Java, anyone?

張展豪

(Translated) There are dinosaur bones! ????Small museum (Original) 有恐龍骨睇！????小型博物館

Philopatear Salib

Perfect museum with entertainment for kids

Me

Tons of cool stuff throughout entire building

Milad Khaki

Definitely go there if you happen to visit University of Waterloo

Aleksandra Zalewa

An "on-campus" exhibition, many good specimens displayed

lgniis Fire

Not the best museum, only has like 5 dinosaurs. They do not move at night :(

ANI

A Gem in university campus.

Lisa KL (Amateur Flautist)

The museum, although small, is a great place to visit. Always free, you can go in any time to see some of the minerals, or during official times to see all of the displays. The museum director is also super amazing and will help any teachers pick out a great tour package. Be sure to check out the rock garden as well, very beautiful.

Holly McCray

Weeee, so much fun. My cousin's loved this place

Brian Neufeld

Neat little museum.

Nogame noname

Explain this science

Eashaan Singh

Nice place to go if u don’t want to spend any money. Had some cool artifacts but got bored of the minerals after the second one.

Shane Everest

Very cool.

Evelyn Cristina Buitrago Leal

(Translated) Interesting (Original) Interesante

Carolyn Muir

Parking spots are scarce at times. Great little museum within the campus.

Sebastian Giraldo

Many minerals and fossils

Stephanie Zielinsky

Local gem. Literally. Interesting selection of artifacts with free entry.

Dongzhi Liu

Good place to come

Annu Dawar

Engaging for kids and adults. Easy access via Ion LRT.

Chris Saayman

Very cool and informative !

Satvik Varshney

Really beautiful and inspiring

Cdibs reyfunny

Very good museum to see dinosaur fossils and bones and has dino eggs to see has great information to learn and the activities here are fun been here once back in 2014 very enjoyable for children I would like to visit here again this year if I could

Petio Ivanov

free and fun

megan goos

Great to wander about. Better to go through the week when the dinosaur room is open.

Max Salman

Personal bias since my office is in this building, but the museum is very forward thinking with a lot of innovation to teach the younger generations about Earth's history! Also, the curator is really awesome!

Pavel Denau

A lot of things to see and learn about. Much more than you would expect. You need to book a tour in advance.

Jessey Rice

Great little museum

Widya Ningsih

I visited the museum during family day last Monday. My kids loved this place since they had a Dino Exhibits at that day and my kids excited on everything about dinosaurs. They have a cafetaria upstairs. However, like other food services on …

Aubrey Brawley

I like taking my son here to look at the small museum and dinosaur exhibits

Oliver Baker

Very cool specimens on display, and a very good study spot.

Edu Erler

Very nice

Lucas Kaehler

A wonderful gem at the UoW

Jeffrey James

I would have gave it 5 stars but the goofy university police gave me a tresspass notice for fixing my bikes flat tire at the bike fixing station so Im not allowed to go back

Aine Connolly

What a neat little place. Kids loved it. Thank you for putting this on!

Khalid Khan

Decent Museum-This museum is small but it have some good collection, few dinosaurus skeleton and some fossils as well. Good for visiting one time.

Samantha Kohn

Came here with my son's Bever Troupe and was possibly more excited than the kids. Really cool exhibits and samples of minerals. Really neat visit. Will be coming back.

Matt Polkiewicz

Some interesting artifacts to take a look at if you are already on campus

Jacie Dyck

Beautiful

Kevin Sylvestre

It's a nice museum interwoven with way too many classrooms Small but free so no point in not going Take a visit if you like rocks and dinos

Andrew Au

Pretty cool.

Ali Alaawad

If you aren't from Waterloo, or Waterloo Uni, good luck getting around campus. Students are nice and try to help, but big University like Waterloo do need to work on their mapping issue.

S. Lam

fun place to visit

Michael Jutras

It was really awe inspiring seeing all the fossils... loved the giant Russian bear

Arnold Hansen

Had a great time taking the kids here and it was free!

Mark Jacobsen

Nice for a quick walk though. Nothing that special in terms of a museum though.

crystal dionne

Lots to look at

Spark Saiyan

So many things to see so little time... Being an enthusiastic this quenched my interest

Mauris Winata

Lots of fun exhibits to view and it's free.

Zhenghong Chen

it is an amazing place.

Joel Rocan

Cool place.

Thomas Haythornthwaite

Bit of a worry having amethyst open for coins to be thrown into, still great exhibits though.

Mohammed Saeed

Interesting

M C

This is going to be a negative review, so I will start off on a positive note. I liked the trilobites. I was also impressed by the variety of crystals and the mine shaft. It was nice that there was no entrance fee. However...that does not mean your visit is free. They charge for parking. That being said; I started the day stressed out and decided to spend a nice relaxing day at a museum I had not visited before. Unfortunately I ended my visit to the museum far more stressed out and disappointed than I was when I started. So, lets list the problems.... 1) This is not an actual museum. If you randomly google museums, see this, briefly scan the website and think you are going to a museum (as per the traditional sense of the word). You are not. This is not a normal museum. It is a series of hallways inside a random university building that contain displays interspersed between a University coffee shop and class rooms. It took me 20 minutes to look at everything I could find. 2) Parking: Some parking lots charge $15. Some $5. Some will apparently get you towed. I only know this from talking to someone with the 'parking' department on the telephone, because there are otherwise ZERO signs telling you which lots charge what, which are for faculty and which are for anyone. There are also NO signs whatsoever identifying the lots. The website tells you to park in lots HV or C. Unless you have a map of the campus with you, you can't tell which lots are HV and which are C as there are no signs identifying them. 3) Building signage: The signs on the buildings are so small they might as well not be there. Not kidding. I was given directions to the 'museum' using landmarks and building shape ("the library is the big cube. Its near that") as there are no visible signs until you're right at the front door. 3a) Speaking of signs; you cannot be faulted for thinking the Earth Sciences Museum would be in the Earth Sciences building. It is not. For some reason it is instead located in the Environmental Information Technology building. 4) Displays The signage at the museum itself is also terrible on some displays. I have 20/20 vision and even I could not see well enough to read the descriptions of some displays that are in tiny font and located in weird places, such as on the floor, or below waist level. I have included photos below as examples of the poor and absent signage. If they were to improve signage on the campus, improve the displays and make it very clear on their website that this isn't a traditional museum so you do not go there expecting something completely different...I will provide more stars.

engy adel

Nice place for kids

Маусымжан Хаджикова

(Translated) Very interesting models of animals and geography (Original) Очень интересные макеты животных и географии

Gowri Nagarajan

Good short trip with kids to learn about dinosaur period, crystal formation, mining, etc. Free admission and campus offers picnic tables ideal for a good time where we can take lunch and enjoy. Parking is $5 or if you are lucky you can park at coin parking too!

Jada Papa

Great free exhibit. You can see it in an hour tops.

Rudibrium

(Translated) The fresh shock that a museum exists in a university (Original) 대학교 내에 이렇게 박물관이 존재한다는 것이 신선한 충격

Robert Fairweather

Excellent host for science open house

Souvik Roy

You will find Canada Historical earth materials.

Mike Cooper

The university has a great collection of rocks and minerals on display for anyone to see. They did a great job arranging a tour for our Scouting group with a presentation, samples to touch and a scavenger hunt. The kids really enjoyed it and learned a lot too.

Sachin Ramroop

It's fun you learn and see new things.

Vlad Silin

Great exhibits here.

Carl Lobis

This is the best place on campus. It is a wonderful museum with free entrance. My favorite is the walkthrough mine with the simulated explosions. The cafe upstairs has the best espresso on campus. The chocolate croissants are also the best.

Nicholas Pellegrino

The tunnel!