whiteside museum of natural history

They have the best displays, awesome taxidermy, and a fun living zooseum full of fun reptiles and insects. Chris can give you a tour and tell you all there is to know. Also they have a full working lab open to the public so you can see them actually extract and put back together the beasts they unearth right in this county! Fun for all ages and has a great gift shop too. Everyone needs to come and visit!

We found a great little museum in Seymour. It is dedicated to the archeological activity around the Seymour area. They are currently digging up a Dimetrodon (named George). Christopher Flis is the museum director and head digger. He gave us a tour of the museum. We actually got to go into the lab where they were cleaning the fossils and working on putting them together. How many museums do you actually get to touch the bones that they are working on and putting together. He has a great sense of the area and he came and went providing information (no hovering) when we asked. They have a "live" reptile and arachnid section with lizards and tarantulas and he got out the corn snake and let everyone pet it. It is not that expensive to tour and i see on the website it is free after 3. they renovated a building and it is in pristine shape. Kudos to Christopher and his team of volunteers that have worked to put this together. They have only been opened since early June.