Turtle Bay Exploration Park and Museum - Redding Museum

  • Address: 840 Auditorium Drive, Redding, CA, 96001
  • Phone: 5302438850
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  • Website:www.turtlebay.org
Average Rating
4.5
9+ reviews
from 2 sources
Yahoo! Travel
5.0
3+ reviews
Yelp
4.5
6+ reviews
Turtle Bay Exploration Park and Museum
840 Auditorium Drive
Redding, CA, 96001

Turtle Bay Exploration Park and Museum Details

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  • Wheelchair Accessible

Descriptions from Across the Web

  • A wonderful museum complex with a summer butterfly house, live animals, miles of walking trails, and lots of new facilities to come! -- Turtle Bay is a collection of indoor/outdoor learning attractions with a focus on the Sacramento ... more on MuseumStuff.com
  • A summer butterfly house, hands-on museum, arboretum, live animals, walking trails and ecology exhibits are all part of this environmental and cultural museum complex, ... more on TripAdvisor
  • This magnificent museum complex features indoor and outdoor learning attractions, a summer butterfly house, live animals, an arboretum, and the Paul Bunyan's Forest Camp. Check for hours as they are opened more days ... more on Yahoo! Travel
  • Turtle Bay Exploration Park. A 300-acre park with a museum, art gallery, aquarium, wildlife exhibits, forest camp, gardens, and a gift store and cafe. For special ... more on Visitcalifornia.com

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2.0
Lower prices

Turtle Bay Museum has been just too expensive. Never having entered the Museum I cannot comment on the actual experience. I have three children from out of town they all own million dollar homes and have incomes far over $100, 00. It did not seem worth it to them or myself to bother with the muse... A Yahoo! User, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel

4.0
I am really impressed by Turtle Bay.

I am really impressed by Turtle Bay. Correction: I am really impressed that Redding has a place like Turtle Bay. I have been to a lot of museums in my day. For the most part, Turtle Bay doesn't really offer anything new to me. However, it definitely offers something new to Redding. I... Sara O, a user of yelp.com. Read full review on Yelp.com

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3.0
Nice but overpriced

For $12, I expect more. The museum is interesting but quite small. Apart from the special exhibit (now the Titanic collection) which costs an extra $8, one can see the whole museum in 15 or 20 minutes. The botanical garden is nice but isn't much more than a 20 minute stroll through whatever will ... Atkinson, a user of Tripadvisor. Read full review on TripAdvisor

4.0
Heather J. 's review

Great museum for Redding, wish this place would of existed when I was a child. Son loved the fish exhibit, got to see staff feed the fish which was cool. ... a user of yelp.com. Read full review on Yelp

5.0
Cool Bridge

(June 05, 2007 00:00)

Go see the bridge. Great downtown , and see the sports park on the other side of town. A Yahoo! User, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel

Directions

Directions from North & South: ��� Take Interstate 5 ��� Central Redding Exit 678 (Exit 678B from the north) ��� Take Hwy 44 West to Auditorium Drive (Exit 1) ��� Turn right to Turtle Bay Exploration Park Directions from East: ��� From 299E to I-5S ��� Ce

Hours

Summer Hours (March - October) 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily. Winter Hours (November - February) 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily. (Closed Tuesdays)

Miscellaneous

  • Admission: Adult (13+) $12 Child (4-12) $7 Seniors (65+) $10 McConnell Gardens only: Adults $6, Seniors and Children $4 Members and children 3 & under admitted free.

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