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July 2019 by Ming F.
Nice place for a function. Staff is super friendly. Lots of things to learn and see.
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November 2017 by Matt C.
Excellent museum. This is a great stop on your way down the hill from Signal Hill. When we went they had a Titanic exhibit which was extremely well done. Really takes you from start to finish the whole history. Extremely thorough and detailed. And also, they have an oil & gas exhibit which I really enjoyed as well. Very informative. I thought it was a very good way to spend an hour or two.
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July 2017 by Brandon C.
The Johnson Geo Centre is a museum about rocks, Exxon-Mobil oil drilling and The Titanic. The Titanic display has a massive volume of reading on the Titanic and little else. While there are some old photos included in the 40+ large posters, it is mainly a lot of print. Exxon-Mobil has displays on how they drill oil, as well as how safe, socially responsible, etc. they are. There is a large display on rocks of many different types, as well as a film on rocks. You can get a guide to tell you more about the rocks if you like. For 12$, I found it a bit expensive and quite dull.
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September 2015 by Hazel P.
I actually thought this museum was great. I found the displays interesting. There were fossil displays, replicas of human skulls from Neanderthals comparing to modern day humans & short movies about how the earth was formed etc. I didn't pay much attention to the oil related displays so maybe that's why I enjoyed it. Nice to see actor Gordon Pinset doing one of the informative movies.
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June 2014 by David M.
Unique location embedded in the mountain. Fabulous samples of indigenous types of rocks. Informative displays of the geological history and transformation of the island. And the oil related displays provide education about the formation of oil and gas reserves, as well as what it takes to discover and tap those reserves. Never hurts to learn the science no matter what your politics. Great exhibit about the Titanic with many facts you probably never heard. 3D movie about the monarch butterfly alone is worth the price of admission. Someone who cares about science could easily spend the better part of the day here. Not to mention the proximity to the top of signal hill and its great vistas. Very highly recommended.
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April 2014 by Sylvia B.
Not bad you ll find decently priced jewelry at the gift store. The 3d movies are excellent we watched the flight of the butterflies absolutely wonderful very educational
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November 2012 by Chris C.
This was an absolute snore, and would likely stunt anyone's interest in geology. Most full grown adults have enough knowledge about the Titanic and fossils to breeze through much of this museum. The information about the Space Program was dated and needs a rehaul, while the Exxon-Mobil oil exhibit was laughable propaganda for the industry, and failed to disclose the severe damage that that the oil industry can do to the ecology. Don't let the size of the museum, fool you either. There is a ton of wasted space.
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August 2012 by Ben B.
Maybe my expectations were set to height by Geo Centre hype men, maybe my friends didn't realize just how little interest I have in science before bringing me here. No matter what happened, the Geo Centre is just not my jam. While I feel the subject matter has potential and the location just off Signal Hill can't be beat, I was bored to tears here by very dry exhibits. I can't remember if there weren't enough opportunities to interact with the exhibits or if they were just buried in paragraphs of small text about this rock or that plate, but I just couldn't get into it. Word to the review that points out the serious oil and gas slant. I didn't think much of it at the time, but yeah...much more corporate resource than 'yay earth and nature and stuff!'
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July 2012 by Mark K.
While the geological history of Newfoundland is a fascinating topic, and the setting of Signal Hill is stunning, the quality of presentation and the science take a backseat to staying on what appears to be a politically-motivated message of cheerleading resource exploitation. The heavy handed approach to exhibit curation, the writing/narration of introductory videos and the inclusion of an "Exxon-Mobil Oil & Gas Gallery" makes this agenda a little too obvious to ignore. This made what could have been a well-designed and informative discovery of geological history and science into something that felt forced and crafted by a bureaucratic committee of stakeholders. More attention to experience design and letting the science tell the story would improve the Geo Centre a lot.
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January 2012 by Mohan R.
Geo Center is what the name satest, it is about the rocks that are found on Newfoundland. You can choose to sit in on videos about Newfoundland, walk around vacrious georaphical exhibits. Great palce to learn about Newfoundlands history.
