Museum at PrairieFire

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Prairiefire Museum is committed to meaningful learning and engagement in science, culture, art, and natural history. The Museum at Prairiefire offers a variety of exciting, authentic Natural History, Science, and Art exhibitions, as well as frequent events, interactive activities, and programs.

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Museum at Prairiefire

4.3

Based on 1166 reviews

A Williams

15:26 26 Aug 25

Lubomyr Murashchik

23:26 16 Aug 25

J. Hopkins

00:48 04 Aug 25

This is a wonderful little museum in Overland Park. The facade is stunning; pictures don’t do the colorful glass justice.

When you enter, there is a T-rex and other fossils. Upstairs is the children’s Discovery Room with various interactive stations. Each station was a different science theme which included Anthropology, Vertebrate/Invertebrate Zoology, Geology, Paleontology, Astronomy, etc.

The Astronomy room was underwhelming. I don’t know if they’re working on it or not, but the only cool part was getting to smell a moon rock. In the Geology section, there was a big cabinet full of rocks/minerals/glass that should glow under black light, but the lightbulbs were missing so the display was off.

My favorite area were the Zoology areas. They have a lot of live stick bugs (I don’t recall the correct terminology) and hissing cockroaches. There are poison dart frogs, a pair of degu, a chinchilla, a corn snake, a tarantula, and so many other cute critters and insects.

My kids loved the Dino Dig and the Cabinets of Curiosity. I wish there was more variety in the cabinet drawers. A lot of the items were really similar.

I believe the museum also had a VR room and a baseball room downstairs, but we didn’t notice them until we were leaving. You can also explore outdoors, but it was way too hot to be out on the day that we were there so I can’t speak to that.

There is free parking in a parking garage across the street from the museum entrance.

This was a POGO Pass admission for us, but it is otherwise five bucks per person.

Lara Kaljumaa

00:29 27 Jul 25

Beautiful architecture but not much inside. There is one room for kids with fossil related activities and aquariums with insects and small animals to look at. According to my kids it was boring. They spent the most time with an interactive program that lets you build your own dinosaur and name it. If you're in the area, it's worth a visit but wouldn't go out of the way.

lyn waiya

04:26 12 Jul 25

Wonderful museum, it has very good architecture (I especially loved the stained glass). It's a good place for the whole family 😃

James

03:27 22 Jul 24

The discovery room is a blast, offering all kinds of educational fun with great little critters and animals for the kids to see. 😍 #DiscoveryRoom #EducationalFun

They have some amazing exhibits for the kids to learn about space and dinosaurs. I'll be returning for the VR experience. It wasn't open when we went, but it looks like it would be a blast! 🚀🦖 #VRExperience #SpaceAndDinosaurs

The overall cost makes this a super attractive adventure for the kids and family. 👪 #FamilyAdventure #AffordableFun

Sarahí Ayala

01:20 12 Jul 24

Colter Whiting

22:26 04 Jul 24

A lot of fun and informative people working there. Really enjoyed the exhibits and how much work went into this museum. Thank you.

Amanda Griffin

16:21 01 Jul 24

The building is beautiful to look at and it had a lot of interesting things to explore. My 10 year old a a bit bored and there wasn't as much as we had hoped there would be. Not bad at all but not great either. I feel the hands on area was definitely aimed at younger kids.

Safa Hasan

21:53 30 Jun 24

The reading this gets 2 star is the limited collection, finished seeing everything in 30 minutes, good for younger children. Admission is 5 dollars

Janette Yerling

22:46 08 Aug 23

what a great day!!

Emily Fuger

13:49 08 Aug 23

What a great little free museum. My 11 year old was engaged for almost 2 hours. Really interesting and relevant exhibits and plenty of hands-on activities. Lots of cute animals too. Definitely worth a stop.

Daniel Lewis

20:28 05 Aug 23

Genuinely the best musuem I have ever been to. If you're a dino nerd, nothing else in the Missouri-Kansas area compares.
If I could give it higher I would.

Josh Ledebur

03:33 02 Aug 23

This museum is empty. There are no exhibits? The place is beautiful, but everything is closed or broken. They have a discovery room, but that’s about it.

Meghan Ascher

17:18 13 Sep 22

Well we didn't actually go in, but it was a GREAT place to get our wedding photos. The building itself of course is beautiful and unique, but they also have a lovely magical field of flowers and trees out front.
Photography by Thomas J McNamara

Breanna Ransburg

18:16 01 Jun 22

I know I've been here before, but today the Free exhibit was amazing! My step son loves dinasours and this was more than we imagined! He had a terrific time and we will be back again!

Jared V

23:05 11 Jan 22

An exceptionally radiant and architecturally-unique building hosting many fun-filled and fact-filled exhibits for kids and adults alike. Admission is reasonable and the staff very friendly and knowledgeable! Family friendly and well worth an excursion for an afternoon. Be advised - their hours are open until 3pm!