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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #5 of 22 attractions in Rapid City
Traveler Description: Museum of Geology The Museum of Geology is an exhibit facility that presents an astonishing array of fossils, minerals, and rocks that are... more »
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Attraction type: Science museum, Specialty museum, Museum, Natural history museum
Address: 501 East St. Joseph Street Rapid City, SD 57701
Tel: 605-394-2467

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“An Awesome Museum!”
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5 of 5 stars
nowincolorado
Colorado Springs, CO
Jun 3, 2006
3/3 found this review helpful

We love going to this museum and have gone several times! The kids love the glow in the dark rocks, the bendable sandstone, the agates, the crystals, etc - so neat to see! Not to mention all the dinosaur fossils and petrified wood! Very neat and worth your time! And it's free! more

“Neat place to visit!”
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5 of 5 stars
A TripAdvisor Member
Oct 18, 2004
3/3 found this review helpful

Neat place to visit! Dinosaur fossils, petrified wood, replicas of huge size gold nuggets, glow in the dark minerals - lots of displays! Our favorite was the "flexible sandstone" - you turn a knob and it bends the sandstone but it doesn't break! And it was FREE to get in! more

“Don't miss it if you're into rocks & fossils!”
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4 of 5 stars
A TripAdvisor Member
Iowa City, Iowa
Jun 8, 2003
4/8 found this review helpful

I visited the Museum of Geology on the SDSM&T campus many times during the nine summers I worked as a seasonal ranger at Jewel Cave National Monument. The museum has first-rate exhibits of Black Hills and Badlands area fossils, including mounted dinosaur skeletons, and of Black Hills and worldwide minerals. Things you won't see elsewhere are a huge block of... more

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501 East St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, SD 57701
Tel: 605-394-2467