Full Dinosaur Quest

The Utah Museum of Natural History is a gorgeous, open museum with huge glass walls that allow a ton of sunlight and make the whole place feel alive.  The star of the show for me is their wall of Ceratopsian skulls, which is like nothing I’ve ever seen, but their Stegosaurus skeleton is great too.  It’s posed to recreate the effect that...

Fernbank Museum is a famous museum with a great design to it.  Its central lobby contains a gigantic sauropod skeleton that stretches up and across the building’s three stories, allowing you to examine different parts of the animal based on where you’re standing and what level you’re on.  In one of the smaller side-rooms you can find this...

There’s nothing I love more than an unexpected bonus museum!  While visiting the incredible dinosaurs at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, I learned that there was a smaller sister museum about half an hour away in Sugar Land, TX.  Part of this 2nd museum’s function was to house some of the many awesome displays that couldn’t fit in the main...

Here is the second non-Stegosaurus to make our list.  The greater family of Stegosaurs is actually pretty extensive, with over 18 individually known species.  While Stegosaurus is the most famous, its cousins are no less beautiful or amazing to look at, although their skeletons tend to be much more rare.  This particular one is an African species...

I hate to temporarily break the chain of Rush t-shirts, but this picture was taken before I had begun this Stegosaurus quest in earnest.  (We were on tour in 2019.) Originally, visiting these museums were just a nice way of killing time in foreign cities before our shows.  Only later did it turn into a...