lindsay wildlife museum

This is a great beginning spot to introduce young children to ecology, science, and animals in general. My out-of town grandkids always ask if we could go there.

Lindsay Wildlife Museum and Wildlife Rehabilitation Hospital is a true gem for Walnut Creek and the bay area. Not only does the museum house a collection of indigenous wildlife (all injured and unreleasable in the wild) but the Rehab Hospital provides a priceless service for the community.It is a place where you can bring injured, indigenous wildlife and they will treat and release at no cost to the public. Wonderful place to visit, learn, and volunteer. Kids love the museum and there are many programs for adults as well.

This is a very nice experience. It is part museum but most of the action is in the live animals. You can see different wild birds that for some reason are not in the wild. At certain times you can watch as the vets and techs work to restore health to a sick or injured animal. Most of the action is on the upper floor but it is worth a trip to the lower floor if only to see the diorama from all angles. And a nice gift shop. Then grab lunch or snack at Larkey Market a half block away, then back to the park to eat and play.

Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall, Lindsey Wildlife Museum is the place to visit for the whole family. There are uncaged raptors and owls sitting high out of reach of human hands, but you are close enough to make eye contact, hear them "talking" and it feels like you are having a once in a lifetime experience out in nature. There are reptiles to view in their environment, plenty of docents to answer questions, and there are lots of hands on activities for all ages. You can sit in a nest, virtually fly like a bird and even measure your wingspan! If you are in the area, it is a must see destination!

We look forward to taking some of our youngest grandchildren and returning for a visit. We (adults) especially liked the hospital demonstration through one way glass plus a TV screen so one could see a bird being examined. The docent gave us the bird's history, how it had been wounded, and that it would be released later that day. It was fascinating. I enjoyed the infrared black and white photography display in the basement. It wasn't, however, easy for us to find. Parking is limited but one can park on the street in the non-neighborhood, houses area. One can also park across the street in the church parking lot, but not on Sundays.

When my own now grown children were teenagers, they worked here behind the scenes at the Lindsay Wildlife Museum, cleaning hundreds of animal cages and taking care of the animals on R&R from the public that they had brought to our home for rest. Thus, the museum played a very special part in their upbringing as they learned about the animals they cared for and the other important skills involved with volunteer work. But this place is not really a museum at all! It is a place in our community where injured animals are skillfully cared for and either released back into the wild, if possible, or are used to teach the public. Every aspect of the place is intensely interactive. Each visit will bring a new discovery because the museum is constantly changing. There are displays and special areas for all age levels. And when the children have had enough of the indoors, there is a first-rate play area just outside the museum.

Great "hands on experiences" and little lectures,that are,just right for younger kids. This has been my 6 year old granddaughters favorite place to go with me when she.visits for 3 years. Not intimidating.at all and their playroom is also a required stop when we visit!

This was an amazing find. The Lindsay Wildlife Museum is one of the oldest and largest rehabilitation centers in the US, and the very oldest in California. They host and exhibit a variety of animals that host more than 50 species of live, non-releasable, native California animals. It is truly an amazing place and I highly recommend this unique and affordable experience that helps contribute to treat the 5,000 injured and orphaned wild animals that are treated here each year!With your visit, the best medical and husbandry care is provided to regional wild animals in need. Care takes place on site at the museum's wildlife hospital and off site at the homes of trained volunteers. Approximately 350 volunteers donate 60,000 hours of service in the hospital each year! While we were there, we watched a beautiful golden eagle take a shower, we pet snakes and hamsters, we watched bees buzz, opossums eat, owls hoot, and hawks watch our every movement! They also have a small area for children to play that looks like a tree trunk, an area where you can look under a microscope at feathers, an area where you can pretend to fly like an eagle! There are different actives that happen every half-hour, and near the end of the museum's day they allow you to watch some of what happens in the hospital. The animal that was in the exhibit room was a small hawk that required to be tube-fed because it's crop was severely damaged and would have starved without help. They have to feed this hawk a small amount about every hour or two until it's crop starts to heal, and hopefully it will recover and later be released. It was very interesting to see a glimpse of what happens on a daily basis in the animal hospital.I would highly recommend this museum- it's a great cross between a zoo and a natural history museum, and they are doing wonderful things with the entrance fees to promote conservation and wildlife awareness, as well as protection and rehabilitation of our surrounding wildlife. This place is amazing!!

Lindsay Wildlife is an amazing organization. Love what they do for animals. The Museum itself is small, about 10 or so live animals to see and then a few activities for hands on. It is best suited for a young child who would like to see the animals and enjoy the activity room OR for an older child who is very interested in learning more about animals, habitats and such. Hard to keep and in between age child engaged for more than an hour or so. It is located right next to a great park and combining the park and museum makes for a good outing.

From the turkey vulture outdoors to the predator birds inside and the hands on playroom spaces, the rich experiences of getting a close up view of the wildflife that surrounds us and the in depth explanations of habits and features...a family with children can have fun, learn and explore for well over two hours

I visit here often with my 6 year old granddaughter. It has the best beehive I have ever seen anywhere, with a marked queen and great visibility of all their activity - larvae, hatching, gathering of pollen, and flight to the outside world. My granddaughter is especially captivated by the raptors and their feeding, and between feedings they sit tethered above where you can see them and listen to them.

Great place for adults and kids. Always something educational going on. Nice collection of wildlife on display, owls, eagles and a wonderful little fox. Very good place for a few hours of grandson visit.They do very good work in the community.

My hubby and I came here for the first time and enjoyed learning more about the Lindsay Wildlife Museum Center and seeing the wildlife in person. The wildlife talks were also awesome to listen to during our visit. The staff members were nice and friendly as well.

The Lindsey is a great place to take young children. Just big enough for litle ones not to be overwhelmed.Wildlife that kids can recognize near their homes-raccoons,birds,snakes,etc. They also have a "hands on" art room for children to make prijects related to their visit. Very friendly staff and volunteers.

It really deserves more than 5 stars because the place has many beautiful animals, the staff is so nice, as well. My son learnt a lot with the presentations, videos, interactions, and so on. The owls are awesome, there's no place like that with so beautiful creatures.