Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
 The museum building |
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| place | Drumheller , Alberta |
| Art |
Paleontological Museum
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| opening | 1985 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | ~ 375,000 (2010/2011) |
| management |
Andrew Neuman (Executive Director)
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The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology is a world-famous paleontological museum in Drumheller , Alberta ( Canada ). His focus is on the numerous fossil finds from the Canadian Badlands .
The museum is named after geologist Joseph Burr Tyrrell , the discoverer of dinosaur fossils in the area. It opened as the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in 1985 and was named the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in 1990 .
The exhibits include 40 complete dinosaur skeletons, the largest collection of its kind in the world. These include Tyrannosaurus rex , one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs, and Albertosaurus , whose fossils were first discovered by Tyrrell. Other exhibits are a large number of fossils from the Burgess Shale of the Canadian Rocky Mountains , the model of a reef from Devon in original size, and a botanical garden with 600 plants from the Cretaceous period .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Museum Facts 2012. (PDF; 516 kB) Royal Tyrrell Museum, accessed on November 6, 2012 (English).
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 41.4 " N , 112 ° 47 ′ 18.8" W.