Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology is a world-renowned palaeontology museum in Drumheller, Alberta ( Canada). His focus is on the many fossil finds from the Canadian Badlands.

The museum is named after the geologist Joseph Burr Tyrrell, the discoverer of dinosaur fossils in the region. It was opened in 1985 as the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology and received in 1990 the name Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.

Among the exhibits there are 40 complete dinosaur skeletons, the world's largest collection of its kind Among them is Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs, Albertosaurus and whose fossils were first found by Tyrrell. Other exhibits are a large number of fossils from the Burgess Shale of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, the model of a reef from the Devonian in original size, as well as a botanical garden with 600 plants from the Cretaceous period.