Dinosaur Museums

Dinosaurs are essentially huge creatures that roamed the earth millions of years ago, according to the studies and research carried out by anthropologists and other scientists. The fact is, the mystery surrounding the dinosaur history is one of complete ignorance and misinformation. The current mass media forms have further perpetuated this misinformation with crafty productions that depict dinosaurs in a totally imperfect representation.

So how do you quench your curiosity about dinosaurs? The answer is dinosaur museums. You can have fun at dinosaur museums while you sample the pieces of credible history, collected from anthropological excursions and then reconstructed artistically to recreate the huge creatures. In dinosaur museums, you hitch a time machine to thousands of years before you were born, objectively piecing together the evidence that tells the dinosaur story without misinformation.

For instance, you can visit the British award-winning Dinosaur Museum at Dorset, Dorchester, just 7 miles away from the world famous Jurassic Coast. For twenty-five years, the Dinosaur Museum has presented the Dinosaur story with a novel and innovative approach such that the museum has become a leading British attraction site for people interested in dinosaurs. When it comes to museum fun, there is nothing that beats standing alongside life-sized dinosaur reconstructions, gazing at dinosaur fossils and skeletons. These recreations and tangible evidence have been incorporated in multimedia displays of the giant prehistoric creatures.

In America, dinosaur museums are in their tens. The best of them all is distinctly the Wyoming Dinosaur Centre in Thermopolis. It features a world-class dinosaur museum with dioramas, interpretive displays and life-size dinosaur mounts for the 60+ identified dinosaurs. The museum fun is further amplified by a program of activities like dig-site tours and dinosaur digs for children.

The Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Centre in Woodland Park is another of the fun museums exclusively dedicated to the dinosaur history. Hosting spectacular dinosaurs alongside other marine reptiles and flying reptiles, the centre is among the best dinosaur museums in the world. The museum also hosts fish from the Late Cretaceous world in North America. Each of the featured dinosaur skeletons has a tale of its life appearance, its environment of habitation, its discovery and specimen excavation and relationship with other discoveries made in the dinosaur history.

It is really possible to hitch a time machine back to the dinosaur age by visiting the world’s best acknowledged dinosaur museums. The Dinosaur National Monument of Utah and Colorado is an exemplification of fun museums with a bias to the dinosaur history. Boasting of 1500 fossil dinosaur bones, archaeological exhibits, a palaeontology laboratory and a relevant bookstore, the monument has something to offer you indeed. The National Park Service is responsible for running the monument and has therefore helped revoke the misinformation borne in the mass media that dinosaurs were huge horrible lizards. The fact is that dinosaurs were fascinating creatures whose extinction ought to be emphasised in today’s scientific studies for who knows, we might also be headed there!

Another classic example of fun museums that is biased towards the dinosaur story is the Dinosaur Journey in Fruita. This is an interactive museum with robotic displays of such discovered dinosaurs as Dilophosaurus, T-Rex and Utahraptor among many others. More so, there is a display of real bones and the cast skeletons of Camarasaurus, Stegosaurus, Camptosaurus, Mymoorapelta and Allosaurus.

Other notable dinosaur museums in the US include the Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.

One worth of special mention is the American Museum of Natural History in New York, which is a premier attraction site of New York City. The Museum features a series of candid fossil halls, two of which are exclusively for real dinosaur fossils. The Sternberg Museum of Natural History and Museum of World Treasures in Kansas is also an exquisite fun museum biased towards the dinosaur history, as are the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge and the Pratt Museum of Natural History, Amherst, both in Massachusetts. In Michigan, the University of Michigan Museum of Palaeontology is also a classic example of dinosaur museums and also that of Minnesota i.e. The Science Museum of Minnesota.

Outside the US, many dinosaur museums can help you piece together the dinosaur story, such as the Dinosaur Museums of Neuquen, Argentina. It is worth every second of your time, if you decide to visit any of these and many more dinosaur museums out there.

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