Museum of the Rockies

The Museum of the Rockies is a Natural History Museum of Montana State University and the Smithsonian Institution in Bozeman. The museum houses one of the largest dinosaur collections in the United States. It is also the official collection of the State of Montana. It was founded in 1957 due to a Foundation by Caroline McGill.

It also houses ethnographic collections and collections on the history of Montana, as a museum village Tinsley House, a farmhouse of the 19th century from Willow Creek ( Montana), which was founded in 1989 transported behind the museum. The museum also houses a planetarium.

The dinosaurs include a complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton and the largest Tyrannosaurus rex skull. Visitors can watch the taxidermists of dinosaur fossils at work in the museum. Curator of Paleontology is Jack Horner.

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