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ROYAL TYRRELL

MUSEUM

⌂ 1500 N Dinosaur Trail, 4 miles (6 km) NW of Drumheller #May–Aug:
9am–9pm daily; Sep: 10am–5pm daily; Oct–Apr: 10am–5pm Tue–Sun
∑ tyrrellmuseum.com
Get up close to the skeletons of dinosaurs that stalked the Alberta
Badlands 75 million years ago, and learn about billions of years of life
on earth through hands-on displays that the whole family will enjoy.
Ideally situated in the middle of a fossil- of complete dinosaur skeletons, and numerous
rich deposit in the Horsethief Canyon just fascinating specimens dating from the Ice Age
northwest of the town of Drumheller, the and the start of the Cenozoic Era.
outstanding and one-of-a-kind Royal Tyrrell As well as tracing billions of years of
Museum was opened in 1985. The museum is natural history through exhibits and inspiring
named after Joseph Burr Tyrrell, a Canadian interactive activities, the museum is one of the
geologist, who in 1884 accidentally discovered world’s leading palaeontological research
the first significant dinosaur fossil in the Red centers – a window into the Preparation Lab
Deer Valley (p158). allows visitors to watch technicians carefully
The museum contains more than 160,000 remove fossils from the surrounding rock,
fossils, including the world’s largest collection preparing them for research and display.
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