Dinosaur Museums & Parks
Alabama
Anniston Museum of Natural History P.O. Box 1587 800 Museum Drive Anniston, Alabama 36202 205-237-6766 Description: The museum features an Albertosaurus
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Dinosaurs in the Woods Leiterman Road Elberta, Alabama Description: Sculpture park with life-sized dinos.
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McWane Science Center (formerly Red Mountain Museum) 200 19th St N, Birmingham, AL 35203 205-714-8300 Description: Hands-on children’s museum and picnic grounds.
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Alaska
Alaska Museum Science & Nature 201 N. Bragaw Anchorage, AK 99508 Description: The museum’s geological materials include vertebrate and invertebrate fossils, hadosaur skeleton cast, fossils, and models. Anthropological collections include artifacts from specific sites in the state, most notably the “Broken Mammoth” site.
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University of Alaska Museum 907 Yukon Drive Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-1200 907-474-7505 Description: Prehistoric exhibits include fossils, the remains of an Alaska steppe bison, and the partial remains of a 21,000 year old mammoth.
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Arizona
Dinosaur Tracks Highway 160 Tuba City, AZ Description: These are dinosaur tracks on the side of the highway on the Navajo Nation.
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Museum of Northern Arizona Route 4, Box 720 Flagstaff, Arizona 86001 520-774-5211 Description: Dilophosaurus exhibit
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Arkansas
Land of Kong Dinosaur Park (Closed 2005) RR 2 Box 408 Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632 501-253-8113 Description: Over 100 life-size replicas on 2 miles of road through park that covers 65 acres.
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California
Cabazon Dinosaurs 50900 Seminole Dr Cabazon, CA 92230 (951) 922-8811 Description: Famous American roadside attraction featuring two bigger-than-life concrete dinosaurs. Both beasts, the 150 foot-long Brontosaurus, and the 65 foot-tall T-Rex have connecting stairs which lead into the giants. “Dinny,” the Brontosaurus, houses a small museum and in his belly.
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California Academy of Sciences 55 Music Concourse Dr. Golden Gate Park San Francisco CA 94118 415-379-8000 Description: Exhibits include Deinonychus and Diatryma. The academy also features a Planetarium.
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Museum of Paleontology, University of California 3 Earth Sciences Building Berkeley, California 94720 510-642-1821 Description: Dinosaur collection features an exceptional cast of a duck-billed dinosaur. Other features include fossil remains of an Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur.
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 900 Exposition Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90007 213-744-3414 Description: Extensive collection of dinosaurs including an Anthrodemus, Stegosaurus, and a Tyrannosaurus.
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The Page Museum & La Brea Tar Pits 5801 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036 (323) 857-6300, ext. 110 Description: Paleontologist Chester Stock and businessman George C. Page never met, but they had the same vision: a museum that could display ancient treasures at the very site they were discovered.
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San Diego Natural History Museum 1788 El Prado, Balboa Park P.O. Box 1390 San Diego, California 92112 619-232-3821 Description: A Nodosaurus and a full Allosaurus reconstruction are featured at the museum.
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Skullduggery 624 South B Street, Ste. A Tustin, California 92680 714-832-8488 Description: Order the skull of your favorite dinosaur. Call for catalog.
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Colorado
Denver Museum of Natural History 2001 Colorado Boulevard Denver, Colorado 80205-5798 303-322-7009 Description: Open fossil laboratories.
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Dinosaur Hill I-70 South of Fruita, Colorado 970-858-7282 Description: Hike a well- marked site of dinosaur finds.
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Dinosaur National Monument and Dinosaur Land Region P.O. Box 210 Dinosaur, Colorado 81610 435-789-2115 Dinosaur Nature Association 1-800-845-DINO Description: Quarry and park with camping, canoeing, and hiking.
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Dinosaur Valley 362 Main Street Grand Junction, Colorado 81501 970-245-7695 Description: A seven-foot-long Brachiosaurus femur bone, Dinamation robotic dinosaurs, and a paleontological laboratory.
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Garden Park Fossil Area & Dinosaur Discovery Center North of Cañon City, Colorado Garden Park Paleontology Society P.O. Box 313,Cañon City, Colorado 81215-0313 719-275-2331 Bureau of Land Management: 719-275-0631 Direct Route: Located on County Highway 9 about eight miles north of Cañon City, CO. Description: Roadside monument to the famous discoveries of the 1870’s. The Garden Park Area is the oldest dinosaur quarry in the U.S. Many fossils remain in the area, as possible new discoveries to be excavated. The Visitors Center, planned for opening in March of 1995, will house a Stegosaurus skeleton discovered from this historical site. The planned Discovery Center will provide even more exiting educational opportunities for visitors. For volunteer and membership info please write to address above.
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Purgatoire River Area Purgatoire River, Colorado Description: The world’s longest continuous mapped trackway of dinosaur footprints is located in an area along the Purgatoire River. A few of the suspected dinosaurs leaving the prints are Iguanodon, Coelurus, Apatosaurus, and Triceratops.
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Rabbit Valley Quarry Colorado 970-858-7282 Description: Self-guided tour through fossil site.
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Riggs Hill West of Grand Junction, Colorado 970-858-7282 Description: Well-marked trail of Elmer S. Riggs’ Excavation site. The remains of a Brachiosaurus were found here in 1900.
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University of Colorado Natural History Museum Broadway at 15th University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80309 303-492-6892 Description: Jurassic dinosaur remnants
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Dinosaur Depot Museum 330 Royal Gorge Blvd Cañon City, CO 81212 Phone:(719) 269-7150 Toll Free: (800) 987-6379 Fax: (719) 269-7227
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Connecticut
Dinosaur State Park 400 West Street Rocky Hill, Connecticut 06067-3506 860-529-8423 Description: Auditorium, discovery room, bookstore, nature trails and hands-on exhibits
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The Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University 170 Whitney Avenue New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8118 203-432-5050 Description: Many dinosaur skeletons including a Deinonychus, Apatosaurus, Camptosaurus and Stegosaurus.
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Delaware
Delaware Museum of Natural History 4840 Kennett Pike (Route 52) Wilmington, DE 19807 302-658-9111 Description: Tuojiangosaurus and Yangchuanosaurus, represent Asian relatives of the familiar North American dinosaurs, Stegosaurus and Allosaurus, respectively. A Parasaurolophus head and Archaeopteryx are also on display
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Washington, D.C.
National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Tenth Street and Constitution Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20560 202-357-2700 Description: Full-scale realistic model of a Triceratops, and several additional dinosaur displays including a Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, and the longest- known dinosaur, the Diplodocus. Insect zoo, films, lectures and other special events.
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Florida
Dinosaur World 5145 Harvey Tew Road Plant City, FL 33565 813-717-9865 Description: Over 150 scientifically accurate, lifelike dinosaurs in a lush subtropical jungle for visitor viewing. Dinosaur World also offers a museum, outdoor classroom, and picnic areas. The park is open every day of the year from September to January. Group discounts and special programs available.
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Jacksonville Museum of Science and History 1025 Museum Circle Jacksonville, Florida 32207 904-396-6674 Description: The museum’s main dinosaur exhibit is a complete Allosaurus skeleton.
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Universe of Energy Walt Disney World P.O. Box 10,000 Lake Buena Vista, Florida 32830 407-824-4321 Description: The Universe of Energy brings the distant past to life with several robotic dinosaurs in a realistic and dramatic surrounding. The exhibit’s main focus is on the natural creation of fossil fuels, and their use.
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Georgia
Fernbank Museum of Natural History 767 Clifton Road NE Atlanta, GA 30307 404-929-6300 Description: The Giants of the Mesozoic exhibit features the carnivorous Gigantosaurus, which rivaled the T. rex in size, as well as the Argentinosaurus, the 100-ton sauropod that scientists say is the largest dinosaur ever classified.
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Hawaii
Paradise Park [closed] 3737 Manoa Road Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 808-988-2141 Description: Dinamation’s robotic dinosaurs and botanical garden.
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Idaho
Idaho Museum of Natural History Box 8096 Pocatello, Idaho 83209-0009 208-236-3168 Description: Robotic dinosaurs
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Illinois
Field Museum of Natural History 1200 S. Lakeshore Dr. Chicago, Illinois 60605 312-922-9410 Description: Dinosaur displays include a splendid Albertosaurus skeleton, a Lambeosaurus, and an eighty-foot long Apatosaurus skeleton.
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The Fryxell Geology Museum Augustana College Rock Island, Illinois 61201 309-794-7318 Description: The museum’s prehistoric exhibits feature ancient fossils, and the skulls from a T. rex and a Triceratops. (Planetarium)
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Indiana
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis 3000 N. Meridian Street Indianapolis, Indiana 46208 317-924-5437 Description: Hands-on children exhibits.
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Joseph Moore Museum Earlham College Richmond, Indiana 47374 765-983-1303 Description: Prehistoric displays include the most complete known giant beaver skeleton and a Mastodon. Dinosaur fossils, Egyptian mummy and live snakes are other attractions.
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Kansas
Fick Museum 700 W. Third Oakley, Kansas 67748 785-671-4839 Description: The museum has a number of interesting large dinosaur fossils from Kansas, many old tools, mineral specimens, and shell & mineral folk art.
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Johnston Geology Museum Emporia State University Cram Science Hall 14th and Merchant St. Emporia, Kansas 66801 620-341-5330 Description: The museum is free, and open whenever the school is in session and the building is unlocked. Most of the items exhibited in the museum were collected in Kansas.
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Keystone Gallery 401 US 83 (near Monument Rocks) Scott City, KS 67871 620-872-2762 Description: The Bonner family has been fossil hunting since 1928 and are available to lead fossil hunting & camping tours in a 1949 Chevy Suburban.
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The Sternberg Museum of Natural History Fort Hays State University 3000 Sternberg Drive Hays, KS 67601 877-332-1165 Description: Life size displays recreating the seas of Kansas from 70 million years ago.
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University of Kansas Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard Lawrence, Kansas 66045 785-864-4173 Description: 45-foot mosasaur fossil, fossil casts, plesiosaurs, Xiphactinus and other Cretaceous period animals. Fossilized femur of Camarasaurus, invertebrate fossils, including ammonites, trilobites, and giant squid.
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Kentucky
Dinosaur World 711 Mammoth Cave Road Cave City, KY 42127 270-773-4345 Description: The dinosaur models, up to eighty feet in length and based on the latest scientific discoveries, are made of fiberglass, steel, and concrete. The dinosaurs are arranged in groups of as many as eleven of a single species, in a variety of settings.
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Louisiana
Audubon Zoo 6500 Magazine St. New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 800-774-7394 Description: Hands-on museum and zoo.
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Maine
The Northern Maine Museum of Science 181 Main St Presque Isle, ME 04769 207-768-9400 Description: College campus natural history museum with 3 floors of exhibits.
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Maryland
Dinosaur Park 13201 Mid-Atlantic Boulevard Laurel, MD 20708 301-627-7755 Description: The park is a unique site in Laurel, Maryland, featuring a rare deposit of fossils from the Early Cretaceous period, about 110 million years ago.
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Maryland Science Center 601 Light St Baltimore, MD 21230 410-685-5225 Description: Over a dozen full size dinosaurs in the exhibit hall.
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Massachusetts
Beneski Museum of Natural History 11 Barrett Hill Road Amherst College Amherst, MA 01002-5000 413-542-2165 Description: The museum’s Vertebrate Paleontology Collection consists of over 22,000 specimens. All of the major invertebrate groups, from the Precambrian to the Recent, are represented in the Invertebrate Paleontology Collection, numbering about 80,000 specimens.
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The Museum of Comparative Zoology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 617-495-3045 Description: Skull of Triceratops found in Wyoming. Prehistoric exhibits include a 42-foot Kronosaurus, and a Mastadon skeleton.
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Museum of Science 1 Science Park Boston, MA 02114 617-723-2500 Description: Enjoy the completely remodeled and revitalized dinosaur hall, with interactive exhibits and hands-on activities. The T-rex model has also been redesigned according to most recent data available.
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Nash Dinosaurland 01075 Amhurst Rd. South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075 Description: Minerals, footprints, and quarry. This out-of-the-way western Massachusetts attraction is rated Worth a Detour by Roadside America.
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Rock, Fossil, and Dinosaur Shop 213 Greenfield Road Route 5 & 10 South Deerfield, MA 01373 413-665-7625 Description: The Dinosaur Exhibit at the Rock, Fossil, and Dinosaur Shop is FREE and open to the public. See over 25 of your favorite dinosaurs full size and realistic.
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Springfield Science Museum 236 State Street Springfield, Massachusetts 01103 413-263-6800, ext. 322 or 472 Description: Full size replica of Tyrannosaurus rex and hands-on exhibits.
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Michigan
Cranbrook Institute of Science 139221 Woodward Avenue Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48303-0801 877-462-7262 Description: Observatory and planetarium laser show.
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University of Michigan Museum of Natural History 1109 Geddes Avenue Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1079 734-764-0478
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Minnesota
The Science Museum of Minnesota 120 W. Kellogg Blvd Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101 651-221-9444 Description: Omni-theater, fossil preparation and mounting exhibit.
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Mississippi
Mississippi Museum of Natural Science 2148 Riverside Drive Jackson, Mississippi 39202-1353 601-576-6000 Description: The primary mission of the MMNS Paleontology Collection is to both house and document the spatiotemporal spectrum of prehistoric animal and plant diversity within the state and to make this information available for educational and research purposes.
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Missouri
St. Louis Science Center 5050 Oakland Avenue St. Louis, Missouri 63110 314-289-4400 Description: Large models of T-Rex and Triceratops outside in Dinosaur Park. Inside, dinosaur educational video and other prehistoric exhibits of local interest.
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Montana
Carter County Museum 100 Main Street-Box 52 Ekalaka, Montana 59324 406-775-6886 Description: Dinosaur specimens include a Pachycephalosaurus and Triceratops skull, as well as a complete skeleton of a duck-billed Anatosaurus.
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Montana Dinosaur Trail Description: Montana’s Dinosaur Trail connects 14 dinosaur museums and field stations that feature world class displays and hands-on opportunities
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Museum of the Rockies South 6th Street and Kagy Boulevard Bozeman, Montana 59717-0040 406-994-2251 Description: Full-scale models of Maiasaura and Triceratops. Also on display is a Tyrannosaurus skeleton.
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Two Medicine Dinosaur Center 120 2nd Avenue South Bynum, MT 59422 406-469-2211 Description: The Center houses a wide variety of dinosaur species, invertebrates, plant fossils, archeological materials, and cultural items. The research collections include new species of dinosaurs and other prehistoric life.
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Nebraska
University of Nebraska State Museum 307 Morrill Hall University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0338 402-472-2642 Description: More than one million numbered specimens have been added to the collection since 1891 when E. H. Barbour, Director of the Museum from 1891 to 1941, made his first trip to the rich fossil fields of western Nebraska.
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Nevada
Las Vegas Natural History Museum 900 Las Vegas Blvd N. Las Vegas, NV 89101 (702) 384-3466 Description: Exhibits include animated dinosaurs, southern Nevada’s plant and animal life, international wildlife room, a live shark exhibit, and children’s hands-on exhibits.
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New Jersey
The Morris Museum 6 Normandy Heights Road Morristown, New Jersey 07960 973-538-0454 Description: Model of a Stegosaurus, plus fossils, and Dinosaur tracks.
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New Jersey State Museum 205 West State Street Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0530 609-292-6464 Description: Children’s programs and summer fossil-collecting trips
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Rutgers Geology Museum Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 732-932-7243 Description: Dinosaur tracks, and a Mastodon skeleton.
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New Mexico
Clayton Lake State Park Clayton, New Mexico 505-374-8808 Description: Over 500 dinosaur tracks located
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New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science 1801 Mountain Road N.W. Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104 505-841-2800 Description: Ice Age cave, saltwater aquarium, and many dinosaur exhibits.
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Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology Ghost Ranch Conference Center Abiquiu, New Mexico 87510 505-685-4333 Description: Dinosaur displays from the Ghost Ranch quarry. A large slab of fossil-laden rock is the museum’s centerpiece. The Ghost Ranch site has yielded more than 100 complete skeletons, which include Coelophysis.
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New York
American Museum of Natural History Central Park West New York, New York 10024-5192 212-769-5100 Description: The American Museum of Natural History contains the largest collection of dinosaur fossils of any museum in the world. Among the museum’s displays are the T. rex, Apatosaurus (formerly Brontosaurus), Stegosaurus and the world’s largest cast skeleton — a Barosaurus, towering 55 feet above the museum floor.
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Buffalo Museum of Science 1020 Humboldt Parkway Buffalo, New York 14211-1293 716-896-5200 Description: A complete Allosaurus, Triceratops skeleton, and hands-on exhibits.
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North Carolina
North Carolina Museum of Life and Science 433 Murray Avenue Durham, North Carolina 27704 919-220-5429 Description: Hands-on nature center.
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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences 11 W. Jones Street Raleigh, NC 27601-1029 919-733-7450 Description: A Tyrannosaurus skull, a cast of an Archaeopteryx fossil, and a Triceratops skull. Also at the museum is a fossil lab.
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North Dakota
Dakota Dinosaur Museum 200 E. Museum Drive Dickinson, North Dakota 58601 701-225-DINO (701-225-3466) Description: Explore 14 dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops with 800 fossils, rocks, and minerals on exhibit.
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Ohio
Cleveland Museum of Natural History One Wade Oval Dr., University Circle Cleveland, Ohio 44106-1767 216-231-4600 Description: Skull from a Dunkleosteus terrelli (“terrible fish”), a 70-foot-long Haplocanthosaurus delfsi (a sauropod related to Apatosaurus), and a skull from a Nanotyrannus — an advanced carnivore which could be a link between dinosaurs and birds.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma Dinosaur Quarries Bonnie Heppard Box 36 Kenton, Oklahoma 73946 405-261-7474 Description: The quarries in Cimarron County have revealed bones from an Apatosaurus, and Ice Age mammals. There are also Dinosaur tracks on the site.
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Sam Noble Museum The University of Oklahoma 2401 Chautauqua Ave. Norman, Oklahoma 73072 405-325-4712 Description: A baby Apatosaurus, and several prehistoric mammals on display.
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Oregon
The Prehistoric Gardens 36848 Highway 101 South Port Orford, Oregon 97465 541-332-4463 Description: Dinosaur park with very large dinosaur sculptures, such as a Brachiosaurus.
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Pennsylvania
The Academy of Natural Sciences 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 215-299-1000 Description: Several magnificent dinosaur displays, which reflect current scientific views of these creatures. Among the displays include a Deinonychus sculpture, a T. rex skeleton, a Hadrosaurus skeleton and a replica of the recently discovered Ultrasaurus leg — 20 feet high! The academy also features dinosaurvideos.
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The Carnegie Museum of Natural History 4400 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 412-622-3131 Description: The Carnegie Museum contains one of the finest collections of dinosaur fossils in the world. Among the fossil displays are a 78-foot-long Diplodocus, a Tyrannosaurus rex, an Apatosaurus, and a Stegosaurus. There are hundreds of additional fossils, as well as pterosaurs, and Ice Age mammals.
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Wagner Free Institute of Science Montgomery Avenue and 17th Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19121 215-763-6529 Description: Fossils of Apatosaurus (formerly Brontosaurus), as well as other fossils of historic significance.
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Rhode Island
Providence Museum of Natural History Providence City Hall 25 Dorrance Street Providence, Rhode Island 02903 401-421-7740 Description: Hosts traveling exhibits of dinosaurs.
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South Carolina
South Carolina State Museum South Carolina State Museum 301 Gervais Street Columbia, SC 29201 803-898-4921 Description: Fossils from the Cenozoic Era, the last 65-plus million years, are the largest portion of the State Museum’s collection. It numbers thousands of specimens from nearly all of the major time periods of the era.
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South Dakota
Dinosaur Park 940 Skyline Drive Rapid City, SD 57702 605 394-4175 Description: Dinosaurs represented in the park include Apatosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, and an Anatotitan (formerly Trachodon). A Protoceratops and a Dimetrodon (Dimetrodon is not actually a dinosaur) were added later. With the exception of the Protoceratops, the dinosaurs they selected were based on fossils found in South Dakota and the Western United States.
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Tennessee
East Tennessee State University Natural History Museum 1212 Suncrest Dr Gray, TN 37615 423-439-3659 | 1-866-202-6223 Description: Interactive exhibits, a dig pit, and touch-screen computer games
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Texas
Big Bend National Park Texas 79834 915-477-2251 Description: Remains of the largest pterosaur — a Quetzalcoatlus were found at Big Bend 1971. Other paleontological discoveries continue to be made in this huge National Park.
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Brazosport Museum of Natural Science 400 College Drive Lake Jackson, Texas 77566 409-265-7831 Description: Allosaurus skeleton, large shell collection, as well as other Texas coastal fossils, lectures, tours, and fossil and shell identification services.
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Dallas Museum of Natural History 3535 Grand Avenue in Fair Park Dallas, Texas 214-421-3466 Description: The museum features fossils of Tenontosaurus, several Ice Age mammal fossils, as well as a 31 foot (9.5 m) Mosasaur –a marine reptile from the Late Cretaceous Period.
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Dinosaur Valley State Park Glen Rose, Texas 254-897-4588 Description: Along the banks of the Paluxy River are perhaps the most well-known dinosaur tracks in the world. Three types of tracks can be seen, left behind from large sauropods, two legged carnivores and smaller two-legged herbivores. There are some footprints which resemble human footprints, however, these have determined to be made from smaller, bipedal dinosaurs. (Campsites available)
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Dinosaur World 1058 Park Road 59 Glen Rose, TX 76043 254-898-1526 Description: Life sized models of dinosaurs welcome families and classes to learn, have fun, or just enjoy a quiet encounter with the lifelike animals. Open every day except Christmas and Thanksgiving.
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Fort Worth Museum of Science and History 1501 Montgomery Street Fort Worth, Texas 76107 817-255-9300 Description: The dinosaur specimens at the museum include skeletons of a Tenontosaurus, a dramatic fossil display of an Allosaurus leaning over its victim, the Camptosaurus. Outside is the children’s Dinosaur Dig playground, which is home to a realistic model of a Tenontosaurus. Also outside is a very life-like and ferocious replica of an Acrocanthosaurus.
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Houston Museum of Natural Science One Hermann Circle Drive Houston, Texas 77030 713-639-46290 Description: An excellent Diplocodus skeleton, robotic dinosaurs, and mammal fossils.
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Museum of Texas Tech University P.O. Box 43191 Lubbock, Texas 79409 806-742-2490 Description: Exhibits relative to west Texas paleontology, including an Allosaurus display. Other exhibits cover prehistory to the present.
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Robert A. Vines Environmental Science Center 8856 Westview Drive Houston, Texas 77055 713-365-4175 Description: An Allosaurus skeleton, Apatosaurus footprints, and a Tyrannosaurus skull. Also at the center are an arboretum and bird sanctuary.
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The Science Place 1318 2nd Ave. Fair Park Dallas, Texas 75315 214-428-5555 Description: The Science Place features a robotic dinosaur exhibit.
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Texas Memorial Museum 2400 Trinity Street Austin, Texas 78705 512-471-1604 Description: Prehistoric exhibits cover an excellent pterosaur cast, dinosaur tracks from Glen Rose, remains of a Diplodocus, Dimetrodon, and a Glyptodon.
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Utah
Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry P.O. Drawer A.B.Price, Utah 84501 435-637-4584 Description: Many fossils, covering several species of dinosaurs were excavated from this area — many were Allosaurus fossils.
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College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum 155 E. Main Municipal Building Price, Utah 84501 435-637-5060 Description: Dinosaur displays include an Allosaurus and a Stegosaurus. The museum also has several dinosaur footprints.
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Dan O’Laurie Museum 118 East Center Street Moab, Utah 84532 435-259-7985 Description: Dinosaur fossils and footprints.
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Mill Canyon Dinosaur Trail Moab, Utah Description: The trails are self-guided through an area rich in dinosaur fossils. A brochure obtained at the park explains what fossils can be seen. Among the specimens in the area are: Allosaurus, Camptosaurus, and Stegosaurus.
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Robert Rowley Dinosaur Tracks 305 South 100 East Price, Utah 84501 801-637-2340 Description: The dinosaur tracks are impressions which are protruding from the ceiling in the Price River Coal Company mine in Spring Canyon, west of Helper, Utah. Some of these footprint “stalactites” hang down the mine ceiling about a foot.
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St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm 2180 East Riverside drive St. George, UT 84790 435-574-3466 Description: This site is described by many paleontologists as “one of the ten best dinosaur track sites in the world” and is one of the most important discoveries in Early Jurassic paleontological history.
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Thanksgiving Point Museum of Ancient Life 3003 N Thanksgiving Way Lehi, UT 84043 Description: Carboniferous Forest and Cretaceous Ocean exhibits. One of the worlds largest displays of mounted dinosaurs with 60 complete dinosaur skeletons, along with more than 50 hands-on exhibits.
Utah Field House of Natural History and Dinosaur Gardens 235 East Main Street Vernal, Utah 84078 801-789-3799 Description: Fossils of Stegosaurus, Diplodocus, and Camarasaurus. Dinosaur Gardens showcases several life-size dinosaurs
Utah Museum of Natural History At President’s Circle Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 801-851-6927
Vermont
Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium St. Johnsbury, Vermont 05819 802-748-2372 Description: Plesiosaurus cast, Ice Age and other fossils. (Planetarium)
Virginia
Dinosaur Land 3848 Stonewall Jackson Highway White Post, VA 22663 (540) 869-2222 Description: Open for 50 years, this roadside attraction features over 50 dinosaurs.
Virginia Museum of Natural History 1001 Douglas Avenue Martinsville, Virginia 24112 540-666-8600 Description: Age of Reptiles exhibit, which includes a robotic Triceratops display, as well as other smaller dinosaur models. Guided tours to the Culpepper Stone Quarry are available, allowing a view of dinosaur tracks. Dinosaur Please call for reservations to tour the quarry.
Washington
Pacific Science Center 200 Second Avenue North Seattle, Washington 98109 206-443-2880 Description: Moving dinosaur exhibits and children’s activities.
Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture University of Washington, Box 353010 Seattle, WA 98195 206-543-5590 Description: The Burke Museum’s paleontological collections contain more than 3 million specimens of fossil invertebrates, vertebrates, plants, single-celled protists, trace fossils, and modern mollusks. A portion of these collections is on display in the museum galleries.
Wisconsin
Dinosaur Discovery Museum 5608 10th Ave Kenosha, WI 53140 262-653-4450 Description: The largest display of meat-eating, theropod dinosaurs in the entire United States. The main gallery tells the story of how non-avian, theropod dinosaurs, like Tyrannosaurus rex and Allosaurus, gave rise to the avian dinosaurs.
Geology Museum, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1215 West Dayton Street Madison, Wisconsin 53706 608-262-1412 (x 2399) Description: A mounted Edmontosaurus skeleton, a Mosasaur, Glyptodon, a Mastodon, and other Ice Age mammas.
Milwaukee Public Museum 800 West Wells Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233 414-278-2702 Description: The museum in Milwaukee has a rare specimen remains of a Torosaurus — a relative of Triceratops. The skull is the world’s largest known dinosaur skull. Other fossils include rare skulls of the head-banging Pachycephalosaurus. There are also Ice Age mammal exhibits, which include examples of Mastodon hair.
Wyoming
Fossil Cabin US30 Medicine Bow, Wyoming Description: The cabin is built of dinosaur bones excavated at nearby Como Bluff, using a total of 5,796 bones.
Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite Bureau of Land Management Worland Field Office 101 South 23rd Street Worland, WY 82401 307-347-5100 Description: You can imagine yourself walking along an ocean shoreline 167 million years ago with dozens of other dinosaurs.
Wyoming Dinosaur Center 110 Carter Ranch Rd. P.O. Box 868 Thermopolis, WY, U.S.A. 82443 Phone: (307) 864-2997 or 1-800-455-DINO (3466) Description: The museum has acquired the most complete archaeopteryx in the world and boasts skeletons of Triceratops, Stegosaurus and Velociraptor, among others in all sorts of dynamic poses.
University of Wyoming Geological Museum P.O. Box 3006 Laramie, Wyoming 82071-3006 307-766-2646 Description: Apatosaurus skeleton, a Maiasaura skeleton, and a cast of fossilized dinosaur skin. Outside the museum is a copper sculpture of a T. rex. |