George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History

This is a wonderful museum! It may be small but they have put a lot of work into the exhibits! Our kids age 11,10,9,8 and 8 months loved it! They enjoyed seeing the animals and the skeletons! The adults in our group especially enjoyed learning new facts about the animals in this region! We would absolutely recommend going if you are near the Bar Harbor area! It is free but the ask for donations. It is a worthy cause!

Compact, informative nature museum just minutes from central Bar Harbor. Pay as you wish donation admission. Hosts the excellent Touch Tank Talk family program led by an Acadia Park ranger. Great for kids of all ages. Highly recommended.

Loved it. Would have enjoyed going to school here, appreciate the way all different disciplines are incorporated. I do want to know why wasn't 'museum diorama maker' or 'museum taxidermy specialist' on my career list when I was looking at colleges?

Awesome museum! Bigger than it let's on a lot of specimens to see. What made it most interesting was the fact that the animals were taxidermied by students! 20/10 reccomend

Great Museum! Free will donation. All exhibits are made by College of the Atlantic's very talented students. The tide pool touch tank is great. Rangers know what they are talking about.

The George B. Dorr Museum is worth checking out while visiting Bar Harbor. My daughter loves animals so we decided to check out the museum on a rainy morning during our week stay in Bar Harbor. We were highly impressed by the variety of animals and details on display created by past students and professors. While it is a small museum, it is packed with beautifully preserved animals and a good amounts of hands on items to explore.

Immersive natural history museum that caters well to all ages and levels of education, really something for everyone! High quality exhibits are created and curated by students at College of the Atlantic

Wonderful little museum. My 5 year old daughter loved it, and so did I. Small but packed with a lot of interesting stuff. We spent a good hour here on a rainy late October afternoon while visiting Acadia National Park.

They really packed this small museum w awesome displays. informative, entertaining. free parking. part of the college campus.

Free to the public. Great place to take kids to explore. Natural History Museum with lots of wildlife to explore including bobcat, whale, beaver, fox, puffins, skunk, deers, and many more.

This museum is very small but has so much to offer. Very well documented and maintained by the College of the Atlantic students. Never knew that taxidermy could be a college course. Loved that it was quiet even on a Saturday. The pool of sea creatures was a highlight for us, as we didn't find too much when we went tide pooling. Very fun and interactive. Also enjoyed the art on display by current students, and for sale! Worth a stop, also has a small shop with books and stuffies, etc. Entry is free so be sure to leave a generous donation!

This was such a great spot to visit with the kids! So much to learn about the animals in the area AND they have a touch tank. Admissions is free but they take donations. Definitely recommend!

The touch tank was the perfect activity for a rainy day. Led by two Park rangers who clearly enjoy their jobs, we learned a lot, and my kids got to hold a sea star and a sea snail.

Excellent little museum! We stopped by the Dorr Museum one dark rainy afternoon in November when it was already dark at 4 PM. We knew we only had an hour till the 5 PM closing but it was the perfect amount of time. The Dorr Museum educator was very welcoming and really wonderful with my kids (ages 9 and 14). We had the place to ourselves and spent a great deal of time exploring the touch tank and learning about the inhabitants of local tide pools. The museum is full of well done dioramas of local wildlife which I was told were done as Senior projects by the college's students. The museum has done a great job combining old collections (trays of old pinned insects to explore) with these new exhibits. Definitely worth an hour stop on a trip to Bar Harbor.