WHERE TO SEE DINOSAURS IN MUSEUMS
These are some of the biggest museums with dinosaur displays in the United States and Canada.
U.S.A.
CALIFORNIA
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(213) 763-DINO
This is the largest museum with dinosaurs in California and has been featured in many films where the action takes place in a museum.
COLORADO
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
2001 Colorado Boulevard
Denver, CO 80205-5798
(303) 370-6000
This museum has one of the newest dinosaur halls, with excellent displays on ankylosaurs and stegosaurs.
CONNECTICUT
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
170 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520-8118
(203) 432-5050
This is the original dinosaur museum in the U.S. and contains many of the first dinosaurs to be mounted. The Rudolph Zallinger mural The Age of Reptiles on the walls of the Great Hall of Dinosaurs is world-renowned.
ILLINOIS
The Field Museum
1400 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605-2496
(312) 922-9410
This is the home of “Sue” the T. rex. The dinosaur hall is one of the latest to be completely renovated.
INDIANA
Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
3000 North Meridian Street
Indianapolis, IN 46208-4716
(317) 334-4000
MINNESOTA
Science Museum of Minnesota
120 West Kellogg Boulevard
St. Paul, MN 55102
(651) 221-9444
There are many fine casts and original displays of dinosaurs from the Rocky Mountains here.
MONTANA
Museum of the Rockies
600 West Kagy Boulevard
Bozeman, MT 59717
(406) 994-2251
This is one of the largest dinosaur museums in the world and has a world-class exhibit on ornithischians.
NEW MEXICO
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
1801 Mountain Road, NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104
(505) 841-2800
This is the largest museum in the New Mexico–Arizona area.
NEW YORK
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024-5192
(212) 769-5100
This is the “crown jewel” of natural history museums. The dinosaur halls contain some of the most famous dinosaurs in the world.
OHIO
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Wade Oval Drive at University Circle
Cleveland, OH 44106-1767
(216) 231-4600
This is the only place to see Haplocanthosaurus.
PENNSYLVANIA
Academy of Natural Sciences
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 299-1000
This is the museum of two legendary dinosaur paleontologists of the 19th century, Joseph Leidy and Edward Drinker Cope. The newly remodeled dinosaur hall has several unique displays, such as Avaceratops and Hadrosaurus.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412) 622-3131
This is the “home of the sauropods,” the only museum where Apatosaurus and Diplodocus are mounted side by side. The original T. rex skeleton is also mounted here.
TEXAS
Houston Museum of Natural Science
5555 Hermann Park Drive
Houston, TX 77030
(713) 639-4629
Perot Museum of Nature and Science
2201 North Field St.
Dallas, TX 75201
(214) 428-5555
UTAH
Brigham Young University Earth Science Museum
1683 North Canyon Road
Provo, UT 84602
(801) 378-3680
This was the home of “Dinosaur” Jim Jensen, and many of his finds are on display.
Natural History Museum of Utah
301 Wakara Way
Salt Lake City, UT 84108
(801) 581-6927
This museum has many Jurassic dinosaurs on display, and another building for paleontology is being added.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
10th Street and Constitution Avenue
Washington, DC 20560
(202) 633-1000
This is the home of the first mounted skeletons of Triceratops, Ceratosaurus, and Thescelosaurus, plus the first dinosaur hall to feature all of its exhibits on the Internet.
WISCONSIN
Milwaukee Public Museum
800 West Wells Street
Milwaukee, WI 53233
(414) 278-2728
This museum does active research in the Cretaceous formations of the Rocky Mountains.
CANADA
ALBERTA
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
Four miles northwest of Drumheller, Highway 838
Mailing address:
Box 7500
Drumheller, Alberta T0J 0Y0
Canada
(403) 823-7707 or (888) 440-4240
This is the largest, and best, dinosaur museum in western Canada.
ONTARIO
Canadian Museum of Nature
240 McLeod Street
Ottowa, Ontario K1P 6P4
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 3443
Station “D”
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4
Canada
(613) 566-4700 or (800) 263-4433
Their dinosaur hall has the only mounts of Leptoceratops and Brachyceratops in the world.
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen’s Park
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6
Canada
(416) 586-8000
This is one of the best museums east of the Mississippi River.