Favorite Museum

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MemberCompsognathusAugust 14, 20131809 Views14 Replies

So, what are your favorite museums. I've been to The American Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian Institute, and The Maryland Science Center. But the one museum that I love to visit the most is The Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Here's a few things about it. The Carnegie boasts the largest collection of Jurassic dinosaurs anywhere in the world. It has one of the world's only juvenile Apatosaurus skeletons. Not one, but two Tyrannosaurus skeletons(one of which is the first skeleton ever found). The first specimen of Diplodocus carnegii, named after Andrew Carnegie, founder of the museum. A yet-to-be named oviraptorsaur. The third largest collection of mounted dinosaur skeletons in the entire USA, right behind the AMNH and the Smithsonian. And it's ranked among the top five natural history museums in the USA. Pics- [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Carnegie_Museum_of_Natural_History_01.JPG[/img] [img]http://philfraleyproductions.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/181.jpg[/img] [img]http://static.travelmuse.com/docs/artwork/general-articles/natural-history-museums/top-natural-history-museums-carnegie-jurassic-room-full.jpg[/img] Make sure to check out this museum if you ever get the chance. It's a must see!

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August 14, 2013

Sorry the first pic did not work. It was the outside of the museum. [img]http://www.pittsburghstaycations.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/carnegie-museum-of-natural-history-300x199.jpg[/img] [img]http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/76/6a/1b/carnegie-museum-of-natural.jpg[/img] It also has a Paleo Lab where you can watch scientists prepare fossils. [img]http://weirdandcoolstuff.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/dscn2221.jpg[/img] The museum also has numerous other exhibits along with the dinosaur one, which is called Dinosaurs In Their Time. Other major exhibits include Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems, Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians, Polar World: Wyckoff Hall of Arctic Life, Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt, Benedum Hall of Geology, and Powdermill Nature Reserve, established by the museum in 1956 to serve as a field station for long-term studies of natural populations. It also has a great exhibits featuring prehistory Ice Age animals and sea reptiles.

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August 14, 2013

Can't say for sure. One I would love to see is the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller Alberta. They have an exhibit dedicated to Albertosaurus, and they have Black Beuaty, a T-Rex that was stained black during fossilization. [img]http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/images/blk-beauty-gi.png[/img] [url=http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/]Here's their website[/url]

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Yeah, that's a nice museum. I wanna go there too. Feel free to ask me about the Carnegie. I know more about it than most probably do ;)

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What about the one in Baltimore? Is there a picture of the first discovered T-Rex?

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The one in Baltimore was certainly nice. Especially the Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus skeletons. But the Carnegie has more variety overall. As far as large theropods go, they have two tyrannosaurs, an Allosaurus, and a Ceratosaurus. Plus numerous herbivores like Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, etc. [img]http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/files/2013/03/tyrannosaurus-carnegie.jpg[/img] This is the first skeleton discovered. It's the one that they used to describe Tyrannosaurus in the first place. It's commonly seen in pictures pertaining to T-rex and is the pic used on Wikipedia. This is how they originally mounted the skeleton. [img]http://media.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2005/mar/dinohall/trexfull-cc4bbc6a7c2056f3b8b64e51e3828bf90e96f013-s6-c30.jpg[/img] This skeleton has been on display for over 100 years! PS- In the picture in the original post, the Rex on the left is Peck's Rex.

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August 14, 2013

That's pretty cool. I would love to be able to travel more than I do.

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Same, there are some museums out west and up in Canada I would not mind seeing.

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This is one of my favorite books... [img]http://ca.pbsstatic.com/l/18/0818/9780737000818.jpg[/img] It features a pic of the Carnegie's Allosaurus skeleton in it's original pose... [img]http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0806/figb.jpg[/img] Current... [img]http://intellectualgridiron.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/allosaurus_side1.jpg[/img]

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August 15, 2013

I'be never been to any museums. Sadly, I lack the time and money to travel. P.s. Peck's Rex got downsized considerably, didn't it? It's supposed to be like 38-40 feet now or something.

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When I was there last, I'm pretty sure it was a good 41 ft long at least, maybe 42 ft.

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August 15, 2013

I've only been to one or two museums, one of them only had a T. rex skeleton and the jaws of a Megalodon. The other, I really can't remember. I want to go to the history museum in Berkeley, but it really isn't a museum, more of a fossil storage and reahserch facility. But it does have the largest collection of fossils in the world, or at least one of the biggest. There is another Mueseum where I can't remember, but it has the dinosaurs dug up in Africa. Ie, Carcharadontosaurus, Spinosaurus, Bahariasaurus, Suchomimus, Deltadromeus, along with other things. I bet that is where someone could find a Phobodon skeleton, or at least some info on it.

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August 15, 2013

I quite enjoyed Drumheller museum. But then again I would go to Drumheller just to walk on the side-walk. This place is so famous for fossils, that they decided to represent to town by dinosaurs. Examples: The garbage cans have dinosaurs painted on them, statues of dinosaurs are absolutely everywhere and every where you look there is a dinosaur gift shop somewhere. The museum on the other hand is flawless though I don't quite care for the Sauropod's pose, it's head almost touching the large unnecessary lights on the roof. Being a fan a natural history I have never actually been to a official Natural History museum. But on that note Canada isn't exactly known for any kind of NaturualHistory, except for a few dinosaurs and that's about it.

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The Royal Tyrrell Museum in Canada is noteworthy and quite famous.

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August 15, 2013

We Canadians take our national heritage and history very seriously. Some may take it too seriously though. Another museum is the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. I have been there, and they have a T-Rex skeleton.

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