Who can resist dinosaurs? Not this family! We found out about a recently opened natural history
museum in Overland Park, so made it our next stop. The cost is a little pricy - so much that it might be enough to make you consider buying a year membership if you want to take it all in. I'll tell you what though, the Grand Hall is free and if you're in the area it would be something to take in just for that!
In the Grand Hall they have replicas of a T-Rex, pteranodons, and marine fossils as well.
But the main draw is the dino screen! You can go off in a side room and create various dinos or dragons, name them and then watch them appear on the big screen in the Great Hall.
If you stand in the right place, you can even get eaten!!
This thrilled the kiddos so much we spent over an hour doing this, we circled back several times so it may have been way longer than that total. What is cooler than getting eaten by a dino??
They had a fantastic discovery area that you bought an appointment for. You could stay as long as you want once you got in, and we spent around an hour there. They had excellent things for the kids to do:
You can hold a bug, touch a snake, or gaze at the poison dart frogs...
Or put together dinosaurs or even a 3 foot praying mantis...
They also had a special exhibit hall that you could pay separately for. The exhibit this time was on mythic creatures. Everything from unicorns, bigfoot, mermaids, dragons, and gryphons. I think overall, I was a little disappointed on the displays of artifacts for the whole museum - most were replicas (from the dino bones to the Figi Mermaid). But if you're a kiddo it doesn't really matter, its just thrilling to see! Bubby was thrilled to see a Figi Mermaid and a life-sized dino does not disappoint.
We have plans to go back and check it all out again when they switch up exhibits. The kids loved it!
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