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The Royal Tyrrell Museum Holds The World’s Largest Collection Of Dinosaur Skeletons.
The Royal Tyrrell Museum is Canada’s only museum exclusively devoted to paleontology, serving as the final resting place for the world’s largest collection of dinosaur skeletons and conducting a scientific study of the multitude of life forms dating as far back as 3.9 billion years.
The Royal Tyrrell Museum is a time-travel instrument that lets visitors see what life on our planet looked like throughout the ages, from the tiniest of insects to the largest of dinosaurs.
Opened in 1985, the museum spans 11,200 square meters in Midland Provincial Park, six kilometers northwest of Drumheller, Alberta in the Badlands region.
Ever since Joseph Burr Tyrrell discovered a 70-million-year-old Albertosaurus skull in 1884, the Badlands have earned fame as the richest source for fossils from the late Cretaceous period, yielding the remains of twenty dinosaur species in the last century.
The facility is both a paleontology museum and a research organization, serving as the final resting place for the world’s largest collection of dinosaur skeletons and conducting a scientific study of the multitude of life forms dating as far back as 3.9 billion years.
The Royal Tyrrell Museum is Canada’s only museum exclusively devoted to paleontology, and each year more than 300,000 people visit the museum to view its unique assortment of more than 120,000 fossils and 35 complete dinosaur skeletons.
The most popular of these dinosaurs is Tyrannosaurus Rex, whose skeleton stretches six meters high by twelve meters long and comprises 200 bones painstakingly assembled by hand.
The museum provides information about both the fossils and the paleontologists who discovered them, and the displays are so well regarded that U.S. filmmakers recently sought them out as movie props.
Although the 2006 comedy "Night at the Museum" is set in New York’s Museum of Natural History, casts of dinosaur fossils from the Royal Tyrrell Museum were featured in the movie.
Visitors can see the plants that flourished along with these giant creatures by exploring the museum’s Cretaceous Garden, which presents prehistoric plants from the late Cretaceous period, roughly 70-65 million years ago.
While these ancient plants and animals lived on the Earth, other ones thrived in the sea, and the museum has several exhibits relating to ocean life.
In Burgess Shale, a colorful walk-in diorama presents 46 examples of indigenous marine species whose underwater home is now part of a 2300-meter ridge in the Canadian Rockies.
The bizarre-looking creatures are magnified twelve times and represent life from 545-490 million years ago.
The Devonian Reef display offers an enlarged, insider’s view of the world below the sea 350 million years ago.
Not all of the life forms on display are as old as these, and the museum takes visitors on a fascinating journey through time as it chronicles the progression of life on Earth.
In Age of Mammals, the history of mammalian life unfolds as the animals become increasingly more familiar with each development.
Some live animals share museum space with the extinct ones, including horror movie-worthy tropical cockroaches and a huge millipede sure to inspire more than a few nightmares.
The museum hosts a large number of programs that allow guests to enhance their museum experience beyond the immediate context of these exhibits.
Visitors may watch paleontologists and technicians as they prepare fossils in the Preparation Lab, and they may use the museum’s cutting-edge multi-media facilities to create their own dinosaurs or simulate a fossil-casting process.
There are programs that extend learning to outside the museum, including staff-guided and self-guided tours of the Badlands, summer camps for both children and adults, field trips, day digs or dig watches with paleontologists, school programs, and dinosaur day camps.
The museum rents its space for private birthday parties or other functions, including group sleepovers that let dinosaur aficionados sleep side by side with their favorite giants.
Even if you don’t want to spend the night with a T-Rex, you’ll enjoy getting to know him a little better at the Royal Tyrrell Museum. For more information, visit
The Royal Tyrrell Museum or call 403-823-7707.
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