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Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium


TripAdvisor Traveller Rating: 2.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #104 of 119 attractions in Miami
Traveller Description: South Florida's largest natural history collection is combined with interactive astronomical exhibits.
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Attraction type: Observatory/planetarium, Science museum
Address: 3280 S. Miami Ave. Miami, FL 33129
Tel: 305-646-4200

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1 of 5 stars
Ballston Spa, NY
25 Jan 2009

I generally love science museums, but this one was truly pathetic. Half of the museum was dedicated to a cultural guest exhibit - interesting, perhaps, but had nothing at all to do with science. Most of the regular exhibits were missing or broken. The planetarium show was okay, but it was more a commentary on how people should "stop and... more

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1 of 5 stars
miami fl
22 Aug 2008

this place is horrible. I dont know why they would make a science museum for kids only!!! im 21..I love science and I just wish they would have something that includes ADULTS!! its too small...and it took me like less than an hr to walk the place...super BAD!!!!!!!!! dont go!!! more

17 Jul 2008

waste of money, very small. not trilled at all more

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1 of 5 stars
Deerfield Beach, Florida
30 Jun 2008

The only good thing I can say about this museum is that the "guest" exhibit was wonderful. Lame is best word I can use to describe the rest of the museum. It was small, filthy and many of the exhibits didn't have signs explaining what you were looking at. (There were even a couple of signs that had fallen off... more

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1 of 5 stars
Glasgow
15 Aug 2007

I recently went to the Miami Science Museum and was very dissappointed. After spending $50 for my family to enter ($20 for an adult and $10 for a child) we found that the museum was very small and had very little to do. After touring for around 45 minutes we gave up waiting for the next workshop (which was two... more

21 Dec 2004
9/15 found this review helpful

This so called "PLANETARIUM" resembled a poverty stricken grammar school library straight out of the 1970's with fake posters made out of cardboard and construction paper describing the 9 planets in our solar system. The employees were just as retro and eerie. Unless you are between the ages of 4-6, dont even bother going unless you want to spend your... more

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Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium Address

3280 S. Miami Ave., Miami, FL 33129
Tel: 305-646-4200