Full Dinosaur Quest

North Dakota might be the part of America I’m least familiar with.  I’ve mostly lived in coastal cities, and have never done a show in the upper-center of the country…So the experience of renting a car and driving through that uncharted territory was a wild one.  About an hour from the Montana border lies Dickinson, a peaceful little...

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 entire town is covered in giant dino statues, some over 80 feet tall, and...

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 absolutely loved it.  It reminded me so much of the Morris Museum in New Jersey,...

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 those displays still take up four gigantic rooms.  There is also an amazing...

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University of Saskatoon has 3 or 4 beautiful dinosaur mounts including a Triceratops, an upright Tyrannosaurus (in the outdated-but-still-amazing-to-look-at “Godzilla pose,”) and this awesome...