Australian Age of Dinosaurs
Atop a remote outback mesa called The Jump-Up, near Winton in Central West Queensland, sits the most productive fossil laboratory in the Southern Hemisphere — and it’s open to the public. Guided tours take you through the working Fossil Preparation Laboratory, where palaeontologists prepare 95-million-year-old bones behind glass, and into the Collection Room to see […]
Museum of the Rockies
Bozeman, Montana sits at the edge of some of the richest Late Cretaceous dinosaur country in North America, and the Museum of the Rockies’ Siebel Dinosaur Complex reflects it — one of the largest Tyrannosaurus rex collections anywhere, drawn from decades of fieldwork across Montana’s dig sites. This isn’t a museum built around a handful […]
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences holds Dinosaur Mummy Leonardo, one of the most extraordinarily preserved dinosaur specimens ever found — a naturally mummified Brachylophosaurus complete with fossilized skin impressions rare enough to reveal how the animal actually looked in life, not just its skeleton. Dinosaur Hall spans four floors alongside the hands-on Big Dig fossil […]
Dinosaur National Monument (Quarry Visitor Center)
Near Jensen, Utah, a 200-foot wall of exposed rock holds more than 2,000 dinosaur bones left exactly where they were found — the single largest concentration of Jurassic dinosaur fossils on public display anywhere. Discovered as the Carnegie Dinosaur Quarry, the site straddles the Utah-Colorado border and offers both the enclosed Quarry Exhibit Hall and […]
American Museum of Natural History
Four floors of Manhattan’s Upper West Side hold one of the world’s great fossil collections — 33 million specimens, including a 122-foot Titanosaur that barely fits through the gallery doors. The dinosaur halls trace the Age of Reptiles through mounted skeletons of Apatosaurus, Deinonychus, and Triceratops, with fossil preparation visible through gallery windows for visitors […]
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
On the National Mall in Washington D.C., the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils — Deep Time reimagines 4.6 billion years of Earth’s history around a single question: what actually happened before, during, and after the age of dinosaurs? The renovated 2019 exhibit lets visitors touch real fossils rather than just look at them, and […]
Field Museum
Chicago’s Field Museum is home to SUE, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found — 90% complete by bone count, and one of the most-studied dinosaur specimens on Earth. Alongside SUE stand Maximo the Titanosaur, Brachiosaurus, and a range of hadrosaurs across the museum’s dinosaur halls. The scale of the collection means a single […]
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Few museums let you see the same species grow up in front of you, but NHMLA’s T. rex growth series does exactly that — juvenile, teenage, and adult specimens displayed together, showing how dramatically a Tyrannosaurus changed shape as it aged. The dinosaur halls also hold Triceratops and Carnotaurus specimens, set within a museum whose […]