Australian Dinosaur Trail
The Australian Dinosaur Trail links three outback Queensland towns — Winton, Richmond, and Hughenden — into a single multi-day fossil-hunting itinerary, each stop offering something genuinely distinct: Winton’s Australian Age of Dinosaurs and its working fossil lab, Richmond’s Kronosaurus Korner and its marine reptile fossils, and Hughenden’s Flinders Discovery Centre. A combo pass covers entry […]
Kronosaurus Korner
Richmond, Queensland calls itself the “Fossil Capital of Australia,” and Kronosaurus Korner backs the claim with Australia’s premier marine fossil collection — remnants of the vast inland Eromanga Sea that covered this region over 100 million years ago. The museum’s namesake, a 15-metre marine reptile with crocodile-like jaws, anchors a collection that also includes a […]
Australian Museum
Sydney’s Australian Museum — the country’s first — puts free general admission behind some of the city’s best family science content, including a Dinosaur Gallery with real skeletons and the world’s first anatomically correct T. rex model, an 11-metre dissection replica created for the documentary “T. rex Autopsy.” A purpose-built Kids Learning & Play Space […]
Bunurong Coastal Drive Fossil Trail
This scenic self-drive route along Victoria’s Gippsland coast links multiple fossil discovery points between Cape Paterson and Inverloch, including the active Dinosaur Dreaming excavation site. It’s an informal touring route rather than a ticketed attraction — free to drive, with fossicking windows dependent on tide times at the more productive stops.
Whitby Museum
Whitby Museum’s Fossil Gallery holds the specimens that first gave the Yorkshire Coast its standing as an internationally significant site for Earth science — a genuinely foundational collection for understanding why this stretch of English coastline matters so much to paleontology. Set within Pannett Park, with one of the best play areas in northern England […]
Rotunda Museum
Opened in 1829 to a design suggested by geologist William Smith, Scarborough’s Rotunda Museum was one of the world’s first purpose-built museums — a building constructed specifically to house and interpret fossils, decades before most modern natural history museums existed. Inside, the Jurassic geology display features the Speeton Plesiosaur and genuinely massive Megalosaurus footprints, alongside […]
Natural Wonders Fossil Hunting Tours (Byron Blessed)
Departing from a small fossil shop on Whitby’s Grape Lane, this guided 3-hour fossil hunting tour is led by Byron Blessed, a qualified palaeontologist who has spent over two decades reading this stretch of Yorkshire coastline. The route climbs the historic 199 Steps to Whitby Abbey before descending to Saltwick Bay, where ammonites, genuine dinosaur […]
Natural History Museum London
Few museum entrances announce themselves like the Natural History Museum’s Hintze Hall, where “Hope” the blue whale skeleton hangs above the crowds heading toward the Dinosaurs gallery. Inside, an animatronic T. rex and a mounted Stegosaurus skeleton anchor one of the world’s best-known dinosaur collections, drawn from over 80 million specimens across the museum’s holdings. […]
Dorset Museum
Dorchester’s Dorset Museum serves as an accessible gateway to the Jurassic Coast, the UK’s only natural UNESCO World Heritage Site — its collection of marine reptile fossils gives context to the ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs that once patrolled the waters now exposed along the coastline outside. Children under 16 visit free with a paying adult, and […]
Yorkshire Museum (Yorkshire’s Jurassic World exhibition)
York’s Yorkshire Museum houses “Yorkshire’s Jurassic World,” an award-winning exhibition tracing 150 million years of the county’s prehistoric past through a life-size plesiosaur, embryonic ichthyosaur fossils shown “swimming” via digital projection, and Alan — the oldest true sauropod dinosaur vertebra ever found in the UK. A dedicated dig zone lets younger visitors hunt for fossils […]