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Originally Posted by starseed
I remember, when I was little, looking at that model earth and thinking that the blackness surrounding it went on forever. I thought it was the freakiest thing ever just standing in front of it.
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It's not there anymore, the whole entrance has been redone. The globe is still in the museum though, you can find it in the ceratopsians section of the dinosaur exhibit.
I love dinosaur museums.
The Royal Tyrell Museum is the greatest dinosaur museum in the world and deserves to win.
The American Museum of Natural History is a fantastic museum in its own right, but in terms of dinosaurs the Tyrell is better. The AMNH gets the edge over the Tyrell in paleozoic fossils though, they have a great collection with
Buettneria,
Eryops,
Dimetrodon (the Tyrell has a
Dimetrodon, it's a bit warped though.)
The Natural History Museum in London is not great for dinosaurs unless you like being in tight spaces with crowds and watching animatronics. It contains some important specimens however, most notably the historically significant Maidstone
Iguanodon along with Mantell's teeth and thumb-spike.
The Field Museum in Chicago is a great dinosaur museum and of course they have Sue.
Where is Pittburgh's Carnegie Museum on this list?? That it's not included is a slap in the face to Andrew Carnegie and Dippy.
I've been to the arty bit of the Smithsonian but not their Natural History Museum so I really can't comment.
The one in Beijing could be a good one with a lot of important specimens, what with the Gobi desert nearby.
A lot of what a museum does has to do with its research efforts and in that context I think some of the top dinosaur museums have to be the Tyrell (Phil Currie), the Field Museum (Paul Sereno), the Museum of the Rockies in Montana (Jack Horner), and the Tate in Wyoming (Bob Bakker).
In addition to the Musuem of the Rockies and the Tate Museum, there are lots of good little dinosaur museums in the world like the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, Scotland or the Flinders Discovery Centre in Hughenden, Australia.
