Fallbrook Gem & Mineral Museum
Fallbrook, CA
Free admission
By Simir Shah
★★★★★4.8(118 Google reviews)
What parents say
AI summary of 5 Google reviews — not a first-hand visit. How we write these
Free, small, and better than it sounds. Reviewers say children get caught up in the fluorescent rocks that glow in the dark, and there is a mammoth skull. Specimens are well labeled with where they were found. Cheap trinkets and geodes for sale. Open only a couple of days a week, so check first.
Fallbrook sits on some of the richest gem pegmatite in the country, and this volunteer-run museum shows it off — tourmaline, geodes, petrified wood, fossils. Free, and compact enough that a squirmy five-year-old will still make it to the end.
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123 W Alvarado St Ste B, Fallbrook, CA 92028, USA
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What visitors say
- Elder Arny★★★★★
Awesome little museum. Completely FREE! They had a bunch of little trinkets and geodes that you could buy. Almost everything was under $20, with a few exceptions. They have a large and we'll labeled variety of rocks, each with where it was found and on what day. Had a fantastic time looking at all of them. Also had 2 really cool sections: 1 about fossils (they had a whole wolly mammoth 🦣 skull) and another about florescent rocket that glowed in the Dark. It was awesome!
9 months ago
- Ron Wilbur★★★★★
This is a "gem" of a place. It's free, the exhibits are very well done and the entire experience was educational and fun. We especially liked the fluorescent displays, but everything was so professional. Honestly, it was such a pleasant surprise. Who knew that looking at gems and minerals would be so interesting?
a year ago
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