Must visit when in Omaha! This museum is housed in Omaha’s former Union Station, an architectural gem. There is something for everyone with historical exhibits, kid friendly exhibits and the building itself. Museum entrance is the top level where you experience Union Station beautifully restored, the gift shop and museum cafe. Recommend walking around this level to appreciate beautiful architecture. Then descend to the main museum level, a larger space with a later extension that houses historic passenger train carriages arranged in chronological order so you will experience Victorian-esque decor, art deco then a sleeper cabin. These have been beautifully restored and a friendly volunteer was onboard during our visit to share stories of the carriages. Volunteer did a great job with historical stories for the adults and piqued interest of the kids. There are historical exhibit so you can learn something about Omaha. The museum has temporary exhibits as well and Jane Goodall was featured in Aug’24.

We loved this museum, an incredible value with so many interesting exhibits. The model train and exploring the trains and streetcars were a couple of our favorites. The Omaha at Work and Trans-Mississippi galleries were both very interesting in highlighting the role Omaha played in the westward expansion during the 1800's. Lastly, have TOYTOPIA as a temporary exhibit is a blast for young and old alike. At only $15 ($12 for seniors), this makes for an outstanding value.

Extensive museum with displays and activities to engage all ages! My wife and I especially liked the chance to walk through train cars and imagine what it would have been like to travel years ago. We also enjoyed the short film about Omaha's history -- between that and the many exhibits, we learned a lot about the early years of this fine city. And oh, what a lot of interesting history! In addition, we had a delicious lunch at the throwback cafe--most especially the old-fashioned soda and the Art Deco Delight Sundae.

First, the station itself it beautiful, with interesting history explained and some really cool bronze 'real life' statues (Other places have versions of these - Galveston's are in white and arranged as even more of a vignette). Really nicely done. Then there is locomotive and 3 full access railcars. But the real museum - anything and everything you wanted to know about Omaha is tucked deceivingly away down there as well. Much more expansive than you initially think with displays at scale enough to keep kids interested, but also detailed signage if you would like to stop and learn about a subject in more depth. You could wander through this for a couple of hours if desired. Skipped the Jane Goodall exhibit, so no opinion there - just needed to move on to something else that day. Ample, free parking.

We really didn’t expect much, but thought let’s see it. The reviews were good, I read to expect to stay 1-2 hours there. We stayed about 4 hours. The museum is deceiving large. The displays and info were very well done. After doing the whole museum we had old fashioned floats and malts!! This is a must for everyone.

Super cool museum. I learned so much about early settlers of Omaha to present day. Beautifully designed in art deco style former train station. We really enjoyed the layout and learnings!

A very interesting museum! Lots of Omaha history. I especially liked the Native American exhibits and railroad cars. The coin and token exhibit was phenomenal! Also tried a malted milk shake at the retro soda fountain counter.