DINOSAUR MUSEUMS & COLLECTIBLES
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Pittsburgh native and highly successful industrialist, Andrew Carnegie in 1896.
The museum became famous when its scientists discovered the fossils of "Dippy," a Diplodocus carnegii in Wyoming in 1899. The museum houses the world's largest Jurassic dinosaur collection and has the third largest exhibit of mounted dinosaurs in the United States.
Specimens include a juvenile Apatosaurus and the world's first skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex. The skeleton that famed paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn originally dubbed Tyrannosaurus rex was sold by the American Museum of Natural History to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 1941.
The Field Museum of Natural History, also known as "The Field Museum," is located in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the largest natural history museums in the world.
The Field Museum originated from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition where it was established as the Columbian Museum of Chicago. Its collections were later incorporated by the State of Illinois. In 1905, the Museum received it's curent name in honor of Marshall Field. the Museum's first major benefactor. The Museum later moved from its original building, now the Museum of Science and Industry, to its current location in 1921.
On May 17, 2000, the Field Museum disclosed "Sue," the most famous and complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found (so far).
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The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is located near downtown Cleveland, Ohio in University Circle.
Cleveland’s first collections were housed in a wooden building on Public Square until the museum was established by businessman, Cyrus S. Eaton, in 1920. It is home to the mounted taxidermy remains of the heroic sled dog, "Balto."
In 1954, a museum expedition to Canon City, Colorado, unearthed a 70-foot-long dinosaur skeleton of "Happy;" a Haplocanthosaurus delfsi. The sauropod skeleton became a major attraction in 1958 at the museum's current Wade Oval Drive location.
The Dinosaur Discovery Museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin is associated with the Kenosha Public Museum and is dedicated to the link between modern birds and carnivorous theropod dinosaurs.
The museum contains the largest skeletal cast exhibit of theropod dinosaurs in North America.
The museum opened in 2006 in a renovated 1908 Beaux Arts historic landmark.
The Michigan State University Museum in East Lansing, Michigan was established in 1857 and is one of the oldest museums in the Midwest.
The museum is a public steward for 2.5 million specimens of cultural and natural history from around the world.
In 2001, the Michigan State University Museum became the first museum in the state to receive Smithsonian affiliate status.
The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History is located on the university's Central Campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was originally named the "Exhibit Museum of Natural History" until the name changed to "University of Michigan Museum of Natural History" in 2011.
The collections began in 1837, and its current complex, the Alexander G. Ruthven Museum Building, dates back to 1928.
The public exhibit museum was founded in 1956 and has the largest display of dinosaurs in Michigan.
MUSEUM GALLERIES
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is the largest children's museum in the world.
It has a collection of over 120,000 artifacts divided among their American Collection, Cultural World Collection, and Natural World Collection. The museum was founded by Mary Stewart Carey in 1925.
Among its exhibits are a simulated Cretaceous dinosaur habitat called "Dinosphere." Dinosphere was created in 2004 after being converted from the museum's old theater. The dinosaur exhibit features light and sound effects that simulate a day in the late Cretaceous period.
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There are also adult and juvenile Brachiosaur sculptures climbing into the front of the museum's welcome center and Alamosaurus sauropod sculptures crashing out of the Dinosphere building.
