Museum Hours
Monday-Thursday 12-4 pm / Friday 12-7 pm / Saturday 10am-5pm / Sunday 1-5 pm / Closed national holidays

About the Museum

The Weis Earth Science Museum is the official State Mineralogical Museum of Wisconsin. Named for its founding donors, Associate Professor Emeritus Len Weis and his wife Donna, this 5500-square-foot museum is the newest addition to the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley campus. This is the only museum dedicated to the geology of Wisconsin and its rich mineral and mining heritage, which was so important to the settlement and economic development of the State.

Interactive and hands-on exhibits, video displays, colorful graphics, and specimens of real fossils, minerals and rocks await you at the Weis Earth Science Museum. The exciting museum galleries include Geology Basics where you can mobilize continents and create your own quake, A Walk through Geologic Time where you will discover that volcanoes, mountains, oceans, and glaciers were once part of the Wisconsin landscape; Wisconsin’s Mining Heritage where you can walk through a 19th-century lead mine tunnel and learn how mining gave us our State nickname; the Mineral Gallery where you can marvel at beautiful minerals from around the State and the world; and Earth Science & Society where you will learn how important rocks and minerals are to our daily lives. Additional gallery space reserved for temporary and traveling displays will change every few months-there will always be something new to see at the Weis.

The Weis Earth Science Museum is celebrating Wisconsin Museums Week by offering free admission to children and juniors when accompanied by a paying adult from May 16 through May 24.  This celebration is recognized by museums across the state of Wisconsin.  For more information, please visit the Wisconsin Federation of Museums website www.wisconsinmuseums.org

The Museum & Gift Shop hours:

Monday-Thursday 12-4 pm
Friday 12-7 pm
Saturday 10am-5pm
Sunday 1-5 pm
Closed national holidays