Great little museum. We came for the dinosaurs and got much more. Very friendly people. Awesome…read moredisplays. Informative displays that walk you thru thr exhibits.

Very nice Grandkids loved it, especially the dinosaurs…read more Dr Seuss exhibit is amazing!!

This is an interesting, engaging and important little museum. My seven year old daughter and I…read morespent a little more than an hour here, and came away with a lot to talk about. Museum layout is very good -- minimal space is used to maximal value. Exhibits do a fantastic job of relating historic and contemporary practices. Electronic interfaces, which are often unnecessary distractions, do add to the exhibits. We especially enjoyed the creation story video. Well worth the drive and the small admission fee.

Loved the guided tour. Learned SO much that I was never taught in history class as a child. I'm not…read moreNative American, but I think it is so beneficial to learn about other cultures and this was truly great!! (I would highly recommend scheduling a guided tour...I don't think it would have been nearly as interesting without it.)

Cool venue but strange exhibits. Interesting way to spend an hour when you have some time downtown…read moreAppleton.

While I'm not specifically a Houdini nut, I love a good quirky museum. One of the things I really…read moreenjoyed about visiting this spot was the building itself, formerly a Masonic temple built in 1923. The flooring and woodwork were beautiful. But as far as the Houdini exhibit, I wasn't blown away. Several of the interactive pieces were not working. I did enjoy that you could get inside some of the items, like the milk can and a straight jacket, but I wouldn't recommend a trip here just for the Houdini exhibit. The History Museum at the Castle does have other exhibits, which depending on what's in house could make your visit more worthwhile.

It took over $3 million bucks to restore this place! The Marathon County Historical Museum (across…read morethe street) did a fabulous job! My wife and I took a one hour tour today ($7. each) and it was well worth the charge. So if you are looking at a tour that fits one of the following categories then check it out: -- How rich people lived in the old days --How historical renovation is done very well. Jacqueline was our guide. She was very knowledgeable about the house, the family, the renovation process, etc. Sometimes it's my impression that guides aren't that knowledgeable; Jacqueline wasn't this way. I thought of the Molly Brown House tour we took in Denver. Very interesting! The carriage house and garden are available for wedding receptions, etc.

From the owner: Guided tours of the elegant Yawkey House Museum are available on the hour with the first tour…read morebeginning at 9:00 am during the week and 1:00 pm on the weekends. The last tour begins at 3:00 pm. Garden and dining room rental is also available. Visit our website for more information.

A really beautiful stop both inside and out! The Birds in Art annual exhibit is obviously the fan…read morefavorite, but it's definitely worth a visit even when that isn't going on.

Who knew you could find an outstanding art museum on the way to Northern Wisconsin. My wife had…read morebeen to the Woodson Art Museum a couple of years ago and suggested that we stopped as we passed through Wausau. The Woodson family were rich dudes who are from Wausau and when they wanted to do something with all their money, they turned their estate into an art museum. The main focus of this museum is on birds. Bird drawings, Bird pictures, bird sculptures, the gardens are filled with various sculptures including Birds. The museum is beautiful, the grounds are exquisitely nice. They would be a great setting for a movie or maybe your wedding. But, truthfully, although the paintings and pictures were wonderful after seeing the hundredth picture of birds I knew I had enough. However if you are an aficionado of paintings, sculpture and birds this is a must-see museum. The museum is free and the staff is helpful. I was a little bummed that the museum shop only sold postcards and books. I'm sure if they sold faux paintings and faux sculptures they could make a killing. This museum is highly recommended. If you are in Wisconsin or near Wausau it's worth your time.

This is NOT a stuffy ol' museum!…read more When logging was the primary industry in northern Wisconsin (late 19th - early 20th Centuries) the logging was all done in the winter. The ground was frozen and logs could be moved without slogging down in the mud that would happen during Spring and Summer. A camp would spring up until the area was fully logged out, then over the summer, the camp would be relocated, anywhere from four to ten miles further away, in the next stand of lumber. Camps were sometimes named but often just numbered. Often a town would spring up around the camp but die off as soon as the camp was moved. Some survived, Laona is an example. In Laona's case, the Connor Family built a successful sawmill here, which is still in operation. When Camp 5 was logged out and moved on to Camp 6, a farm sprang up so the company could supply the camps with meat and vegetables for lumberjacks with voracious appetites. Descendents of the family that started it all decided to preserve the old lumber camp and farm, and formed a foundation to operate and preserve Camp 5. It's on the National Register of Historic Places, and you'll find the historic farm (some of it still operational) and a logging museum as part of the old logging camp. Special events are held throughout the season (check the website for schedules) and it is all very educational while being fun! There's a guided tour of a managed forest that shows you how modern logging operations differ from the clear-cut-and-move-on method of logging from the 19th Century. You'll find displays of stump pullers, skids, water tanks and other logging equipment from the past. Check out the retired, heavy equipment and a Wisconsin Central switch engine that you can enter. Kids will enjoy the petting zoo, although the managed forest tour might not hold the attention of youth who haven't learned about the history of logging in Wisconsin. Be sure to visit the operating blacksmith shop! There's only one way to enter the museum, and that's by steam train! Climb aboard the Laona and Northern Railway for the three mile ride to the museum. You can sit in an open-air observation car behind the locomotive, or opt for riding in an antique passenger car or a caboose. (Yes, you can ride in the cupola.) The season runs from mid June to almost Labor Day each season, plus some Fall dates. Check ahead. A flyer with coupons is available at most hotels and tourist info kiosks in a 50 mile radius. There is a gift shop and lunch is available with a limited menu (freshly grilled burgers, brats and hot dogs) at prices you might expect in a captive situation. All in all, it's a fun couple of hours for the family. (Don't tell the kids they'll be learning something!)

This is not your average museum. There's no big fancy building with a marble entryway and…read moredressed-up docents. There *is* a big old steam train to ride on (you can even climb up a little ladder and see what's what). My husband went here as a kid and was dying to share it with our little rascals. You buy your tickets then hop on the train (it leaves maybe five times a day) for a short ride (15 minutes?) to an old logging camp. There are a couple of buildings with old equipment and pictures (and a buffalo hide rug that grossed my kids right out), which are good to browse through for a little while. Then you can pay extra for a pontoon boat ride (they take you on this very muddy river, tell you about the logging camp history, and hope for some wildlife) or take the included-with-train-ticket wilderness tour. We didn't take the wilderness tour because the kids were having too much fun in the petting zoo. There were goats, chickens, ducks, a little cow, and turtles to look at in their enclosure. They had adoptable kittens, too, but we resisted their fuzzy adorableness. There is a concession stand on the grounds (crazily expensive, as they all are) and the old camp slaughterhouse, which was eerie. There is a little nature trail with signs, but the bugs made sure we didn't get much out of that. There is a store they call the Cracker Barrel store, but it had zero in common with Cracker Barrel restaurants. It was full of souvenirs and candy (fudge and gummy), and that's where you buy the pontoon boat tickets. Next to this building is the Nature Center, which is a taxidermist's dream come true. Lots of dead stuff in there (again, the kids found it gross) but also some cool minerals and ammonites (I loved them!). We were there for about 2.5 hours and were ready to go by then, but it was a fun little place. It's staffed mostly by high schoolers, with train enthusiasts running the steam engine. We hopped back on the train for the return to the depot, where the kids got to line up and blow the horn. That was COOL. The guy in charge enjoyed it more than the kids, I think.

Having gone to the art Institute as a young adult I enjoyed the glass paper weights the most. Now…read morebeing an older adult and being in Neenah I had to check this out. I would say I spent maybe 45 minutes to an hour in the museum. You just wonder from room to room looking at everything. My favorite were the plain old glass paper weights that were round. I was surprised that it's in a neighborhood area across from a park. Afterwards, I see it outside the museum and just took in the beauty. They also have a gift shop with nice glass things in it be sure to go to the second floor where they do have a little more to see.

Super cute! The gift shop is clean and friendly with a lot of great options. I wanted to hug almost…read moreeverything!

Such a fun place to bring your toddler! We enjoyed the small kids area so much but he also loved…read moreexploring the big trains! We were disappointed we could not go into more cars, we have went to other train museums and they let you go in almost every car but this one only had a few open but other than that it was fun!

My family was looking for an indoor activity to do since the day was going to be rainy and cold. We…read morehappened upon this museum during their fall festival and stayed for 6 hours. They offered more to do than normal because of the festival but we still would have spent a couple of hours here regardless. Lots of cool examples of trains with many were open to us to walk through and explore. You could also take a train ride onsite. The museum is close to many shops and businesses off of Oneida Ave. so everything was close. Great gift store too if you are a train fanatic, lots of train-themed merchandise.

Giving 5 stars because we were unable to visit. It's actually not open on Tuesday. Actual hours…read more according to the website and Google are: Sunday Closed Monday Closed Tuesday Closed Wednesday 12-4:30PM Thursday 12-4:30PM Friday 12-4:30PM Saturday 10AM-4:30PM Yelp, please correct info on this unclaimed business!

Surprisingly good sized museum. Went here on a Tuesday during the day. It is inside the UW- Fox…read moreCities campus. Nice little museum with a lot of stuff to see. It is very reasonable cost I think it was $3 for adults and $2 for kids/Seniors (65+). While it might be boring if kids are too young, there is lots of dinosaur bones that can be touched, and a few other interactive exhibits. If you looked at every exhibit and read everything it would probably take about 45 minutes to see everything. It is very impressive for being a museum on a college campus. Lots of information on the history of the land that is Wisconsin but from an Earth Science spin so what happened billions of years ago to even more recent meteor landings. It is right next to the planetarium so you can easily see both in an afternoon if you wished to do so. There is also a little gift shop if you wanted to get a little trinket. Come check out this place if you need something to do on a rainy day and want to learn a little about the Earth.