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 Suddenly, the wheat fields disappear and the rolling prairie is replaced by a strange landscape known as the badlands, where passages from an age-old story are slowly revealed over time.
The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology is your storyteller. As one of the world’s leading palaeontological museums and research centres, the Tyrrell captivates visitors with hundreds of fossils that show how life on our planet began and how its lifeforms evolved into the animals and plants we know today. Part of the saga is told through an extensive display of dinosaur skeletons, computer simulations, and multimedia exhibits. A window into the laboratory lets you watch technicians at work on recently unearthed specimens. And the story that’s told is ever-changing, as new fossil discoveries lead to new information about the life and lifestyles of Earth’s prehistoric animals.
In 1884 geologist Dr. Joseph Burr Tyrrell found the skull of a dinosaur, later named Albertosaurus, near the area where the museum would be built a century later. This discovery brought Drumheller to the world’s attention as a centre for palaeontological exploration and exceptional fossil finds from Tyrrell’s time to our own.
It is fitting that complete dinosaur skeletons dominate the realistic dioramas in the Dinosaur Hall, some with their sheer size and all with their amazing diversity. You’ll be transported to a primordial past when you step inside the Palaeoconservatory, a tranquil indoor garden of plants whose ancestors lived and grew 65 million years ago.
Each trip to the Tyrrell Museum offers more knowledge, as the introduction of new exhibits keeps the experience fresh and adds new chapters to the story of life on Earth. Allow at least three hours-after all, that’s a short time to take in 4.5 billion years of the Earth’s history. As well, the museum shop is a well stocked emporium of goods with a scientific bent. And do hike along the interpretive trail for an impressive view of the badlands-a landscape like no other.
Victoria Day-Labour Day: daily 9-9. Labour Day- Thanksgiving: daily 10-5. Winter: Tues-Sun 10-5. Closed Mondays except for statutory holidays.
Admission is charged. Group rates and special programs available. Cafeteria. Giftshop. Located 6 km (4 miles) northwest of downtown Drumheller on North Dinosaur Trail in Midland Provincial Park. . Within Alberta, dial to be connected toll free, or dial elsewhere in North America.
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