Comments on: Where the Dinosaurs Are

By: Dr. Jon Kardatzke

Dr. Jon Kardatzke — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:30:03 +0000

One of the finest dinosaur collections in the world, including the 3rd most complete T-Rex ever found.

By: Dr. Jon Kardatzke

Dr. Jon Kardatzke — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:26:39 +0000

You are evidently not aware of one of the greatest displays of true dinosaur fossils in the world. It is located at the Museum of World Treasures in Wichita, Kansas. On a cliff are 5 fossils, not casts, of huge dinosaurs. They include a T-Rex comparable to Stan in original fossil percentage (about 65%), and the only one in the world that is more complete in Sue in Chicago, (about 80 %).
Standing beside the T-Rex, Ivan the Terrible, is a Daspletosaurus, the closest relative to the T-Rex, and ours is the most complete specimen of 11 found to date.
Also on the cliff is a dying Edmontosaurus which has just been killed by the 2 carnivores.
There is an omnivore, called a Thescelosaurus which is wanting to eat some scraps of the Edmontosaurus, and also a Triceratops. Please add us to your list of great dinosaur museums. We have many other fossils also including 3 Kansas monsters, A Mosasaur, a 34 foot long Tylosaurus, and a Xyphactinus, The Museum of World Treasures has over a thousand other relics including 2 Royal Egyptian mummies, wonderful pottery from ancient Greece, Villanova, ancient Egypt, and even the Mayan civilization.
A fine display of the Etruscan, Roman, and Mesopotamian civilizations are included.
There are over 1000 autographed letters and documents from many famous Kings and Queens like Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and II, Ferdinand and Isabella, Peter the Great, Francois I, etc, Holy Roman Emperors Charles The Great, Maximillian III HRE, and autographed letters of all 42 Presidents, many authors, war heros and villains, famous scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton, and the first treaty of the U.S. signed by Benjamin Franklin. We have a fine display of the American Revolutionary War, the Civil War, WW I and II, Vietnam, and Korean wars. Please add whatever you wish to include in your web site, especially the Dinosaur collection.

By: Patricia Welker

Patricia Welker — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:23:11 +0000

Don’t forget the smaller museums like the Bollinger County Museum of Natural History, located in Marble Hill, MO, just a short drive from St. Louis. The Bollinger County Museum is the “Home of the Missouri Dinosaur” and houses dinosaur bones from the only dinosaur digsite in Missouri. Our museum makes a great day trip and has other dinosaur displays, in addition to the Missouri Dinosaur, to thrill the child in all of us.

By: Margaret Enkler

Margaret Enkler — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:36:40 +0000

Hello, Would love to see our museum – Dinosaur State Park – included in your listing. We are conveniently located 1 mile off a major highway -I-91 – just south of Hartford. There are over 2,000 early Jurassic dinosaur foot prints – Eubrontes – on site which are preserved in gray sandstone. Over 600 are on display inside the geodesic dome that also houses our auditorium, bookshop and discovery room. The park sits on 60 acres and outdoors we have a picnic area, track casting and mining areas (these are seasonal), 2 1/2 miles of hiking trails and an arboretum which is a collection of plant species that were prevalent during the Mesozoic Era.

By: Harvey

Harvey — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:28:07 +0000

Also, on the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. Having visited this museum on trips to Pittsburgh, it has some of the best dinosaur exhibits in this country. It has the world’s largest Juraissic collection and the third largest collection of real mounted dinosaurs including two Diplodocus, Tytannosaurus Rex, Oviraptorosaur, and many others in a great new renovated area with multilevel views of the exhibits.

By: VisitMoabUTah

VisitMoabUTah — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:57:04 +0000

Hey, did anyone catch Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs this month on Discovery Channel digging dinosaur fossils with Utah Palentologist Jim Kirkland?

By: ReBecca

ReBecca — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:36:42 +0000

Sam Noble Museum on the University of Oklahoma campus has great exhibits as well.

I also must second the Alf Museum.

By: Reed

Reed — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:08:53 +0000

Been all over Colorado and Utah 15 years ago. Wonderful. But you’ll never forgive yourself if you don’t get to Carnegie in Pittsburgh.

By: Nagi

Nagi — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:26:47 +0000

As an Atlantan, I feel the need to warn everyone that beyond the Argentinosaurus/Giganotosaurus mount and the Lophorhothon statues out at the front of the museum, Fernbank’s a complete bust for palaeo-philes. The only other real presence of prehistoric life is in the “Walk Through Time in Georgia” exhibit, which boasts an upright T.rex statue, tail-dragging Stegosaurus skeleton, and thecodonts as real, factual animals.

By: 'Dr'. S Beckmann, BS

'Dr'. S Beckmann, BS — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:09:47 +0000

I second the BHI museum!!

Also, if you’re going to stop in Chicago for ‘Sue’ (and pizza- but certainly NOT the Cubs), ya might as well head out only 90 miles west to Rockford and stop in at Burpee to see ‘Jane’.

Finally, we also have a list on our Links page at The Center which includes museums:
http://center4cretstudies.tripod.com/id24.html

By: Walter

Walter — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:23:41 +0000

I lived in Bozeman for five years and consider the Museum of the Rockies one of the highlights. It is a surprisingly robust museum for such a small one, no doubt helped by Jack Horner’s celebrity status. Sadly, I moved away before the new dinosaur hall was finished.

Montana also has a statewide “dinosaur trail” for tourists who want to visit some of the locations where dinosaurs were actually found. Be warned: it’s a huge state, so it is a long drive if you plan to go that route. (And do it in mid-summer. It will be hot, but you don’t want to travel the hi-line in the winter.)

By: Leigh

Leigh — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:26:10 +0000

I second the Carnegie recommendation. They’ve redone their dinosaur exhibit in recent years, and it’s fantastic. Probably my favorite (not least because it’s usually not nearly as crowded as the AMNH). You can go upstairs and look down on the exhibits (and see almost eye to eye with the quetzalcoatlus suspended above the fighting Tyrannosaurs).

I have been to Houston. It was kind of dark. They had more full models (as opposed to just bones) than the average museum.

Both Houston and the Carnegie have nice exhibits of feathered dinosaurs now.

By: JP

JP — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:02:19 +0000

The Black Hills Institute of Geological Research in Hill City, SD may not be as flashy as some of the larger national museums, but it is one of the few good places to see dinosaurs in the vast span between Bozeman and Chicago. Their showroom houses an impressive collection of a wide variety of dinosaurs including some very important discoveries. Where else can you see multiple t-rexes and an acrocanthosaurus sized up, side by side?

By: Michael Leschin

Michael Leschin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:34:25 +0000

Delighted that you led off with the Dinosaur Diamond National Scenic Byway and the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry! Hopefully that will result in increased visitation numbers for us. Which in these times of budgetary uncertainty is absolutely crucial if we want to keep these places open for the public to come visit. Thank you very much for the plug and Merry Christmas!

By: Mark Ryan

Mark Ryan — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:45:31 +0000

You don’t mention any of the museums or sites along the Front Range of the Rockies. The Denver Museum of Nature and Science has plenty of dinosaur material including baby Stegosaurs, a Diplodocus, and the dancing T-rex in the front lobby. Then there’s the Morrison Natural History Museum in the little town in the western foothills where the type location for one of the most famous dinosaur-era formations in the US is located. It’s a great dino-centric museum with plenty to see, particularly about the history of the nearby Morrison Formation discoveries. Just up the road is Dinosaur Ridge where you can see dinosaur bones in situ at one of geologist Arthur Lake’s original Jurassic dinosaur quarries, and just around the bend is a wonderfully tilted slab of dinosaur tracks from the Cretaceous.

Up north in Laramie is another favorite of mine: the Geological Museum at the University of Wyoming. The collection includes an Apatosaurus and a cast of “Big Al” the allosaurus. Further north is Como Bluff, one of the most productive dinosaur graveyards in the early history of paleontology. At the north end of Como along Highway 30, you can visit the Fossil Cabin Museum whose walls are made up of thousands of locally found dinosaur bone fragments. And let’s not forget the fabulous Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis where I saw some great dinosaurs on display (including a huge Supersaurus) and an actual specimen of an archeaopteryx (the Thermopolis Specimen).

Down at the lower end of the Rockies is the New Mexico Museum of Natural History, home of many dinosaur displays including the state dinosaur, Coelophysis, from nearby Ghost Ranch (worth the trip just for the spectacular geology, but also for the small museum there).

Lastly, I have to plug the Science Museum of Minnesota, located far from the mountains but in my home state (and where I am an employee). Plenty of dinosaurs to see there including the usual Jurassic genera (Stegosaurus, Diplodocus, Allosaurus, and Camptosaurus), along with one of the largest Triceratops ever discovered.