Mineral Museum, Butte MT

We wanted to stop in with our kids and learn about the minerals of the area but the workers of the college all parked in the spots reserved for visitors. We could have found parking and walked over but it isn’t right that the college employees are taking up spots for museum visitors.

Excellent Free Museum on Minerals and Gems. Very knowledgeable gift shop helper who could aswered my questions.

Unique donations and geologic samples and collection of local Montana rocks, gems, minerals, and artifacts. Very grateful for the learning educational experience

SO COOL! If you are a mineral geek, this is the place to go. So many different types and from some very far away places. They have a dark room where they show off many fluorescent rocks. To top it off there is no admission fee. Make sure you have an hour or so because you can spend all day in here.

This FREE museum is a great place to stop if you're traveling far with kids. The campus it's located on is beautiful, really nice place to get out and stretch.
The kids really enjoyed the florescent room.
It is perfect, just enough to be interesting but not too much to be over stimulating.
So glad we stopped here!

The Mineral museum has a great collection of minerals. The experience is free and well worth a visit. Don't forget to check out the rocks under UV light. That's one of my favorites. I come here about once a year.

How have I not reviewed this place before?
I've been bringing kid groups here for over a decade. I recommend it to grown ups, too.
Fascinating, fun, free.
Montana's largest gold nugget. Meteorites. Rooms of glowing minerals (blacklight and phosphorescent). Fossils. I'm pretty sure they have a sample of every mineral that you ever heard of and a whole bunch you never have. There's even an earthquake display, with notes about famous historical Montana earthquakes.
Park in the back, there's plenty of direction signs to get into the museum on campus. Disabled parking, and an elevator.