This place is big and overwhelming and full of awesome little taxidermied creatures, the pre-historic ones always caught my attention.

The taxidermy is great, I've yet to see loose eyeballs, they have everything from little like dik-diks to crazy magical narwhals. I'm only sad that the narwhals are obscured by a lunch table and tucked into a small alcove in the lower part of the building.This lovely museum has no less than four. . . FOUR, dinosaur Mold-A-Rama machines. Some really good ones too. They always caught my attention

Bushman, technically, is this great ape that belongs under the subject of awesome taxidermy. He is one of my favorites and is pretty amazing. The food is, sub-par, Corner Bakery is a good place to stop for a familiar lunch option where you can manage not to spend $15 on a burnt cheeseburger. As for some of the other exhibits, some are kind of dull, some I've seen a million times, plus the Hall of Gems was missing some gems due to upcoming renovations about to happen. I also hate that the "diamonds" in the collection are all replicas. Some of the special exhibits are cool too including the Jackie Kennedy one and the pirates exhibit which was very intriguing. This is where I will come to buy my future children's toys. I want them to have nothing but obscure/uglyish stuffed animals. I also bought a b-day gift for a friend here that is perfect for her offbeat tastes. Im not saying any names. Most of all, find Sue! She's a pretty big dinosaur, you cant miss her.

Mummies and dinosaurs are a good mix, but on non-free days the cost is high and some of the exhibits are rather boring.