Ozark Reptile Museum

July 16, 2007

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All Side of Life reader, Jamie wrote to me with some details about the Ozark Reptile Museum.  We have never been, but I am sure my boys would love it.

I wanted to let you know about another museum in the area worth visiting.  It’s called Ozark Reptile Museum.  It’s VERY small, but a neat place to go if you’ve got kids into snakes, lizards etc.  (They even have an alligator.) 

It’s located in a small L-shaped building next to Mermaids where 71 Business merges with Green Acres Road. 

It’s open Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday afternoon.  Admission is $1.50 for kids 5-12, $2.50 for 13 years and older and it’s free for kids 4 and under. 

We didn’t do this, but we were told you could bring a camera and get your picture taken holding the 9 foot Boa!   

Thanks for the tip, Jamie!

Posted by Terri Chadick | Filed Under Museums 

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2 Responses to “Ozark Reptile Museum”

  1. Lisa Smith on August 26th, 2008 6:45 pm

    I went to the Reptile Museum today with my 3 yr old and the man who runs this place is awful. I went with the intent on paying to enter the facility and he had a sign requesting food products for the animals instead of money. I asked if he was open and his response was..
    “I am for the people who bring food. I don’t know what is wrong with these uneducated people who come here. I know they can read the sign.” Then he went off on a tirade about not cheating the government and started to talk about medical prescriptions and govt programs.
    Oh if my daughter hadn’t been so excited I would have left right then and not returned. But I made a trip to Ozark Foods and purchased two heads of red leaf lettuce for the animals and returned.
    He then let us in but ignored us for the rest of the time. He did not explain any of the creatures to my daughter who was so happy to be there. There is religious propaganda and pamphlets everywhere it isn’t a very friendly place and I will not return.
    So before you go you may want to prepare your children for for the environment and bring crickets or lettuce( not iceberg)

  2. Chandler on November 8th, 2008 5:14 pm

    This place in an embarrassment to Fayetteville. The animals are neat but the man that runs this place is horrible. He acts like he could care less about the people visiting. He sat in the back the whole time, so we just looked at the animals by ourselves…he never explained what the animals were or gave us any info about them at all. I knew most everything in there except the name of a few snakes…it would have been nice to know what I was looking at. The owner just has no people skills whatsoever…Also, he doesn’t accept money, you have to bring food (for the animals) to get in…lettuce or feeder fish or mice..
    I hope no out of town visitors to this “museum” think this is how all citizens of Fayetteville act…
    We were there about 5 mins max…it was really small plus we just didn’t feel welcomed. We felt like we were bothering this man just being there…
    OH well…

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