Royal Tyrrell Museum

Welcome, esteemed guests, to the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, located here in the austere beauty of Midland Provincial Park. You are about to enter Canada's only museum dedicated exclusively to the study of ancient life,…

Before we view the completed, mounted skeletons, it is academically vital to understand how they arrive in the galleries. We find ourselves looking through large glass viewing windows into the Preparation Lab. …

Stepping into the main exhibition halls, we are immediately transported to the late Cretaceous period, approximately sixty nine million years ago. This magnificent diorama, known as Cretaceous Alberta, sets the environmental…

We now approach one of the most famous and visually striking specimens in the entire museum: the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton affectionately known as 'Black Beauty'. Even among a gallery filled with monsters, this skeleton commands…

Our final focused examination within the Dinosaur Hall brings us to a specimen that redefines the concept of fossil preservation. This is the Borealopelta markmitchelli. …

As we conclude our tour of the Royal Tyrrell Museum, we move through the final galleries detailing the great extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period. The asteroid impact, coupled with massive volcanic activity,…