My summer Stegosaurus run across the US/Canadian border ended at the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller. Located an hour outside of Calgary, Drumheller prides itself as the dinosaur capital of Canada, and completely embraces its prehistoric-loving identity. ...
The University of Nebraska State Museum took me right back to my earliest days of visiting museums as a kid. The look, layout, and even many of the displays felt like they hadn’t been updated since the 80s. This might sound like a drawback, but I...
The Royal Ontario Museum is one of the biggest and most impressive museums I’ve been to on this dinosaur quest. Right up there with New York and Chicago. Like those museums, only about 2% of the museum’s entire fossil collection is on display, and yet...
This is definitely one of my favorite dinosaur displays that I’ve ever seen. Reminiscent of the dinosaur lobby in Western Wyoming Community College, the University of Saskatoon has 3 or 4 beautiful dinosaur mounts including a Triceratops, an upright Tyrannosaurus (in...
There are so many terrific dinosaur museums in and around the Salt Lake City area, but I think Eccles Dinosaur Park is my favorite. There are 2 great Stegosaur displays here, including a beautiful Hesperosaurus, but the picture I took with that one came out blurry,...
he next Stegosaurus sculpture I encountered on tour is the famous “Steggie,” who has been standing outside the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in some form for over 55 years. The first model was unveiled in 1968. It was beloved by more than two generations of...
