New Madrid Historical Museum

Mississippi River changed direction.

Educational, great river views. Family-Friendly although actual town is small and larger cities/lodging are a reasonable distance from town. It was a day trip for me. Note: *Actual visit: October, ...

New Madrid

The film explains the New Madrid settlement, earthquakes, fault, Civil War and river heritage, and the museum has some interesting artifacts. We learned a lot about this unique area, close to where w...

Learning about the big quake

Always heard about New Madrid and the huge earthquake. Good to stop at this great museum and learn more. Worth it.

Pleasantly surprised at all that was here

This museum was well worth the $5 adult entrance and $3 student entrance I paid. We went for information about the 1811-12 earthquakes, and the information provided just on those events would have be...

Interesting museum

Jeff was very nice and he showed us two movies one was about the history of New Madrid and one was about earthquakes. The museum was very interesting.