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University of Wyoming Geological Museum
Near the northwest corner of the UW campus. (307) 766-2646 www.uwyo.edu/geomuseum |
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| This is Wyoming’s oldest museum, established in 1887. Exhibits include: Big Al, the most complete skeleton of Allosaurus ever found; displays featuring the Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite in northern Wyoming, the largest tracksite in the State, with over 1,000 meat-eating dinosaur footprints preserved; a 75-foot-long, mounted Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus) skeleton, one of only six on display in the world; a skull cast of Wyoming’s State Dinosaur, Triceratops; the largest, complete, freshwater fossil fish on display in the world, a 50-million-year-old garfish from Wyoming’s Green River Formation; the fluorescent mineral room, featuring specimens from Wyoming and all around the world; and a one-of-a-kind, life-size, copper-plated Tyrannosaurus rex statue, along with a skull cast of T.rex and the story of the world’s first T.rex found in northeastern Wyoming in 1900.
The museum is open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekends. Admission is free. Excerpted from museum brochure. |
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