Academy of Natural Sciences Reviews

Always loved coming here as a kid and now I brought my own daughter and she had a blast. Great place to enjoy as a family.

We went for an unschooling adventure. We enjoyed the various exhibits, especially the larger land animals. There aren't many places to see bison to scale. It was also really sad because so many of the animals are extinct or facing extinction.

It s way to expensive. I know atrescctions are expensive but they charged me 1.67 for a little bag of popcorn.

A great place to spend the day. Lot's of exhibits for all ages.

Pricey day for a 2-3 hr trip. It is a wonderful museum! I loved the upgrades of the dinosaur dig and some of the more interactive exhibits, but coming from NJ it's $30-35 to park in garage (street parking is impossible but cheaper), $5 for bridge, and plus the the price of the tickets (so for me it was a $80 day (and we didn't even get food because we went in morning). Staff was very friendly and informative which made the trip very pleasant!

Nice smaller scale museum. Great for the little kids

A lot of displays have been there since I was a kid. I'm now in my 30's.

I thought all science was natural... I was wrong some science is actually man made. I guess some people want to get results in hopes of forwarding their agenda. Such a shame

My boys has a wonderful time at the museum. We ll come again.

This is am awesome place! It's always A PLEASURE to come here with family.

A great place to take the kids. Loved the animated dinasors and butterfly conservatory as well as play fun at the dedicated kid play areas.

Great place! Not very crowed either! My toddler had a blast!

looks nice on the outside I bet the inside has some nice science stuff

Great time, awesome exhibits and friendly staff. Little warm inside but a fantastic time overall.

Messed up, system. Did not recognize my membership, in the second day of visiting. Anyway, still a good place for your kids.

Kids had great fun on the third floor touching small animals

Always fun and engaging for the kids. Exhibits don't change too often but they're always doing new presentations in the auditorium and at inside out so it's good for a few trips per year.

Very nice place, and usually has an interesting exhibit. Best to have a membership if planning to go more than 2x in one year! Nice place to take the kids when the weather is less than ideal.

It was nice, but it should let adults know which exhibits are more meant for kids and not exactly for two adults to find interesting.
However the butterfly place was nice, it was just my dad and I, along with a guide woman who told us all about the butterflies they had there. It ended up being a nice time.

Great display of exhibits and dioramas. Dinosaurs and butterflies were both interactive for kids.

One of my best trips in philly. Great exhibits. You can walk thru a live butterfly exhibit. Shows with animals. Fun, interactive dinosaur exhibits happening now. You can spend 4 hours and see most of museum. Great staff, food, and fun for the family. Easy to park next to museum.

Great field trip for the kids. I love the butterfly exhibit the best.

Fantastic family museum! Amazing experience from staff to exhibits!

Excellent day, excellent fun, lots of things to see and a very nice collection of exhibits. My son loved visiting here and I did as well.

This place is great for kids and adults alike! Dinosaur exhibit and butterfly exhibit are great permanent fixtures, and they always have great temporary ones there.

Nice museum for families! Children will always have a nice time.

I recently visited this museum and the last time I went prior to was about 10 years ago. The museum basically has the same exhibits and honestly can make good use of a major renovation. You can see the wear and tear of various items around the museum. It is a good place to learn and a great place to take the little ones to entertain them. Hopefully one day they do get the renovation and then it will get 5 stars. Other than that as an adult with grown children there's no reason to go back.

Had a blast! They have military discounts which is awesome! Loved walking through the butterfly room and seeing the dinosaurs!

Nice museum. My 3 year old son enjoyed this for almost 3 hours. Found meter street parking across from the Franklin Institute. $7.50 for 3 hours. Admission $22 adult $18 children

This place is so cool! I love the dinosaurs and butterflies!

A must for anyone visiting Philadelphia. Favorites have to be the T-Rex and the Butterflies!

It was a great time though in pain, I had a nice time with the kids.

Kids will love the dinosaur exhibit and butterfly room. The museum is relatively small and can be explored for about 1-2 hours

Plenty of things the kids can touch and volunteers to explain different aspects of the museum. Only thing that stops my rating from 5 stars is that even though there were 3 stories of content, it seemed empty. There were hallways that had no museum items except a table of volunteers. We had 2 adults, a 4 year old, and a 2 year old and it cost us about $77. We spent about 3 hours there.

Love to visit and to admission price is reasonable. The staff love to interact. The only bad thing is affordable parking in the area is very hard to find

An amazing Museum with tons of amazing scientific objects to view and read about with plenty of attractions for children and adults which caters to all levels of intelligence.

Great interactive displays/info carts and staff. Lots to see and learn about

Great for the little ones. Bugs and butterfly exhibits are a must. Elevators are a bit slow and wish there were more dinosaur bones/animatronics.

My son and I had a wonderful time here on his class trip.

Nice sized museum with a lot of info, especially about dinosaurs. Good for kids.

I grew up in Philadelphia and visited here so many times. Today brought back so many awesome memories. Many thanks to Nick who allowed a few people to see this baby sloth!

Beautiful place with some really incredible exhibits

Great place to take the kids, don't miss the third floor where you can see a beehive and watch the bees work and pet a rat

My kids love it. I call it the dead animal zoo. I always feel like more could be done with the exhibits other than the dinosaur area. They seem to pour most of their resources into that. The Croc exhibit was cool though. We all really enjoyed that.

Me and my son so obsessed with this place..dinasour exhibit our spot

What a perfectly sized museum to take kids true it is very easy to find things and there is a lot to offer for all kids of different ages. My girls got to see some live animals of the top floor see bugs reptiles and they even liked the live animal showed that was held in the auditorium. It took us 3 hours to get through everything and that wasn't even reading many things so I would love to go back and take my time reading about the animals but my favorite part was the dinosaur section. We checked out the new exhibit of extreme bugs which was an additional charge and addition to that museum entrance.

We had such a great time at totally turtle weekend. We were a little disappointed in the extreme bug exhibit but still totally loved our experience

Great for kids. Museum educators are very knowledgeable and friendly!

Great museum with kid friendly interactive exhibits.

It was OK, but small. Dinosaurs were good, but this is not the natural history museum of NYC.

Worth it for someone with Philly Pass, or maybe to members.

It was amazing and Anna And Alore were so informative and sweet. We were told stories and clued in on little secrets and learned so much. The exhibits are amazing and Dinosaurs were so awesome! This is a wonderful place to explore and learn and take any aged child! Thank u all so much.

Parking prices are ridiculous but the museum itself is nice

If you like dinosaurs, then the downstairs is for you. If you like learning about ecology and humanity's effects on our environment, then the upstairs is for you. If you like venus flytraps, then the gift shop is for you. They also have actual dinosaur fossils being cleaned up in the rear of the dino exhibit. Big fan!

Oh, and the butterfly room is tons of fun for the kids.

An amazing museum featuring dinosaurs and lots and lots of beautiful dioramas

Great for field trips, make sure to stop by Ourside/In!