Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum
Vernal, Utah bills itself as the gateway to “Dinosaurland,” and the Utah Field House backs that up with an outdoor Dinosaur Garden of 14 life-size models set among the surrounding high-desert landscape. Inside, exhibits trace the region’s fossil record within an 80-mile radius of Vernal, an area that also includes Dinosaur National Monument and Red […]
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 […]