Val S.
Yelp
The signs got the three of us to turn in and try to go to the museum. We parked in the lot. It was 1730, but the museum/animal was closed. I looked at Yelp! and the site said it closed at 2100. We looked through the window, and there were interesting things in the cases and it looked well taken care of. There were deer here, and we saw them from the road, so we walked out to the main road and walked along the street near the bike path, and went near the deer enclosure to look at them. We could see an area where the deer could be fed by hand. My friend is allergic to deer so we didn't stay long. As we walked back to the car, a man met us near the museum and told us (he was a bit upset) we couldn't be there looking at the deer. I told him we came to go to the museum but we noticed it was closed, and we were sorry, we wanted to look at the deer. He had a little white dog off leash, and was upset at us for being near the road because his dog had come towards the road to say hi, and he mentioned he had lost two other dogs that way. We had froze in our tracks when he told us we couldn't be there, and he walked to us to get his dog, as he scolded it for coming to us. I asked him what time he was going to open and he said he was never going to open as he hated people, and didn't want to deal with them anymore. We walked back to the car and the man was telling us we couldn't be near the deer without him being with us as it was a government requirement, and he mentioned that people fed the deer food they shouldn't be eating. We apologized again, and told him we didn't feed the deer. The owner argued and said that he just wanted us to leave because he had to go and take care of his wife and he wanted to put his dog down, but he would just walk to us if he did. We quickly got into the car and left.
It was a weird experience, at the very least. The negative Yelp! and Trip Advisor reviews seem accurate.
The premises is next to an ATV rental, which also looked open. Although the owner said the museum was closed, I'm not sure if the ATV rental is as well.