Academy of Natural Sciences - Dinosaur Hall
Founded in 1812, this is the oldest natural science museum in the Americas, and its Dinosaur Hall displays more than 30 dinosaurs and other …
Museums & exhibits
Searching for a dinosaur museum near me? Here are all 109 dinosaur museums in the DinoPassport atlas, mapped worldwide. Use the map or "dinosaurs near me" to find the closest one for a day out with the kids.
American Museum of Natural History: Fossil Halls
The fourth-floor fossil halls hold around 100 real dinosaur specimens, including a cast of Patagotitan, a sauropod so long it barely fits in…
Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum
Built on a mesa 24km outside town, this working fossil laboratory holds the holotype skeletons of Australia's most complete sauropod and the…
Dinosaurs - Australian Museum
This permanent gallery walks families through the Mesozoic era with mounted skeletons and casts, framed around how palaeontologists actually…
Beaty Biodiversity Museum - Dinosaur Trackways
Best known for its suspended blue whale skeleton, this UBC campus museum also displays cast trackways left by dinosaurs that once walked thr…
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
The centrepiece here is Giraffatitan brancai, a 13-metre sauropod skeleton and the tallest mounted dinosaur in the world, standing alongside…
Lapworth Museum of Geology
This free university museum holds 250,000 specimens, including British dinosaur finds and marine reptiles pulled from the region's own geolo…
Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum
The Wildlife & Marine Worlds gallery pairs a genuine Triceratops skull with a 3.5-metre Jurassic ichthyosaur skeleton, and a hands-on Dino L…
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Museum of Natural Sciences)
This museum's dinosaur gallery is built around the Bernissart Iguanodons, around 30 nearly complete skeletons pulled from a single Belgian c…
Canadian Museum of Nature - Fossil Gallery
This gallery inside the museum's landmark turreted stone building walks visitors through the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs a…
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs in Their Time arranges more than 230 specimens, most of them real fossils, in chronological order alongside recreations of the pla…
Central Museum of Mongolian Dinosaurs
Set on Independence Square in the heart of the capital, this museum is built around one of the most famous fossils in Asia: a towering, dram…
Government Museum Chennai - Geology Gallery
Established in 1851, this museum's geology gallery displays dinosaur eggs, fossil plant imprints, and a suspended skeleton replica alongside…
Children's Discovery Museum Bangkok - Dinosaur Detective Zone
Kids dig for buried bones in a sand pit, examine dinosaur eggs, and explore fossil-wall displays in this dedicated zone inside a free childr…
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
A mounted T. rex skeleton greets visitors near the entrance, setting the tone for the Evolving Life Wing's walk through hundreds of millions…
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
The Prehistoric Journey hall walks families through deep time, ending in a fossil hall with mounted skeletons and a working paleontology lab…
Ditsong National Museum of Natural History
Formerly the Transvaal Museum, this 1892 institution runs a children's discovery centre with a dinosaur collection and a reconstructed Deino…
Dubai Dino
A genuine 24-meter Diplodocus skeleton stands in full public view inside Dubai Mall, free to see while walking between shops. It's an easy, …
Egyptian Geological Museum
Opened in 1901 as the first museum of its kind in the Middle East and Africa, this collection includes the skull of Spinosaurus and bones of…
Erenhot Dinosaur Museum
This Gobi border-town museum displays hadrosaur fossils and remains of Gigantoraptor erlianensis, a giant feathered dinosaur first identifie…
Musée des Dinosaures d'Espéraza
Run by a working paleontological research association a few kilometres from France's largest dinosaur fossil bed, this museum mixes genuine …
Field Museum
SUE, the most complete T. rex skeleton ever found, greets visitors just past the main doors, and kids can trace the whole story of dinosaur …
Fossil World Discovery Centre
A family-run museum packed with over a thousand fossils, minerals, and dinosaur casts, with a hands-on dig pit where kids can excavate their…
Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt
Germany's largest collection of mounted dinosaurs fills this museum's halls, with reconstructed Brachiosaurus, T. rex, Stegosaurus, and Tric…
Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum
Regularly ranked among the world's three great dinosaur museums, this hall has roughly 50 full skeletons on display, including Fukuiraptor a…
Glazer Children's Museum - Big John the Triceratops
This downtown play museum's headline exhibit is Big John, the world's largest known Triceratops fossil, displayed at kid height so toddlers …
Goseong Dinosaur Museum
Real Oviraptor and Protoceratops egg fossils sit alongside Asian dinosaur skeletons in one of Korea's most complete dinosaur museums, set on…
Gunma Museum of Natural History
This well-regarded prefectural museum is a hit with dinosaur-mad kids for its life-size animatronic Tyrannosaurus that moves and roars, plus…
Gwacheon National Science Museum
Just outside Seoul proper in Gwacheon, a short subway ride from the city center, this national science museum's Natural History Hall houses …
Haenam Uhangri Dinosaur Museum
Built beside one of the world's most important fossil track sites, this coastal museum lets families see real dinosaur, pterosaur, and bird …
Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary
This McKinney nature sanctuary hosts an annual Dinosaurs Live! exhibit each fall and winter, sending families down a paved half-mile trail p…
Dinosaur Parlour, Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre
This free government-run exhibit tells the story of Hong Kong's own first dinosaur fossil find, excavated from Port Island starting in 2024,…
Houston Museum of Natural Science - Morian Hall of Paleontology
This is the largest paleontology hall in the country, with more than 60 skeleton mounts including three Tyrannosaurus and the most complete …
Hong Kong Science Museum - Palaeontology Gallery
An animatronic T. rex named Paul and one of the world's most complete Deinonychus skeletons anchor this ground-floor gallery, which sits alo…
Indian Museum - Invertebrate Fossil Gallery
Inside India's oldest museum, a fossil gallery arranged by geological era includes a genuine dinosaur egg unearthed in Gujarat's Kheda distr…
Iziko South African Museum - African Dinosaurs
A three-storey gallery inside South Africa's oldest museum is given over entirely to African Dinosaurs, with Karoo-landscape dioramas and re…
Kronosaurus Korner
Named for the giant marine reptile whose fossils were first found nearby, this council-run museum displays Cretaceous sea creatures pulled f…
Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum
Kids come face to face with three towering sauropod skeletons nicknamed Prince, Apollo and Twinky, among the most complete diplodocid fossil…
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
The star here is Trix, one of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons ever found, excavated in Montana and now the centrepiece of a de…
Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência (MUHNAC)
This ground-floor paleontology hall traces Portugal's own dinosaur history, showing a near-complete carnivorous dinosaur foot, stegosaur tai…
Museu da Lourinhã
This museum holds one of the largest Upper Jurassic dinosaur fossil collections in the Iberian Peninsula, including material tied to the loc…
Macro Fossiles Kasbah
This fossil workshop and outdoor yard shows off huge slabs of Moroccan stone being cut into sinks and tables, with a live demonstration area…
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
Spain's national science museum has displayed a mounted Diplodocus skeleton, a cast gift from Andrew Carnegie, since 1913, making it the cou…
Maloka - Sala de Evolución
Bogotá's flagship interactive science museum centers its evolution hall on 'Juliana,' an 11-meter Tyrannosaurus rex model built with a 3D re…
Manchester Museum: Fossils & Dinosaurs Gallery
This university museum reopened in 2023 with a gallery built around Stan, one of the most complete T. rex skeletons ever excavated, and Apri…
Maropeng Visitor Centre
The official visitor centre for the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site opens with a fossil display room holding genuine South African d…
Dinosaur Walk - Melbourne Museum
Thirteen skeletons parade through the middle of the gallery, including a Mamenchisaurus so long that kids duck under its belly instead of wa…
Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano
Milan's natural history museum displays Allosaurus and T. rex skeletons alongside Ciro, a cast of the first Italian dinosaur fossil ever fou…
Paläontologisches Museum München
This free university collection covers 3.5 billion years of life on Earth, including dinosaur-era material and the famous early-bird fossil …
Museum of the Memory of the Earth (Tataouine)
Opened in 2000 to protect the region's geological heritage, this small museum displays reconstructions tied to Tataouinea, a long-necked sau…
Museo Municipal Carmen Funes
Founded in 1984, this small-town museum punches way above its size: it holds the only known remains of Argentinosaurus, among the largest la…
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales
Tucked inside leafy Parque Centenario, this is one of Latin America's most complete natural science museums, with a paleontology hall showin…
Museo de La Plata
About an hour outside the capital, this grand university museum devotes entire rooms to Argentina's sauropods and other Mesozoic giants alon…
Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (MEF)
Founded in 1990, MEF is Argentina's leading dinosaur research museum, holding more than 17,000 fossils including the team that reconstructed…
Museo Municipal Ernesto Bachmann
Opened in 1997, this museum holds the skeleton of Giganotosaurus, discovered nearby in 1993 and long considered the largest meat-eating dino…
Museo de Geologia UNAM - Sala de Paleontologia
Inside a beautifully restored early-1900s building with stained glass and a marble staircase, this university museum's paleontology hall hol…
Museo de Historia Natural y Cultura Ambiental
Set among the colourful domed pavilions of this Chapultepec park museum, the star attraction in the Evolucion de la Vida hall is a plaster-c…
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural
Chile's national natural history museum sits inside the leafy Quinta Normal park and is the country's home base for its own dinosaurs, sever…
Museo de Historia Natural (Universidad Nacional)
Spread across nine permanent halls on the national university's Bogotá campus, this museum shows real specimens spanning zoology, paleontolo…
Museo de Historia Natural (UNMSM)
Peru's oldest natural history museum has occupied this Jesús María building since 1934, and its geo-sciences hall is where the country's own…
Museu de Ciências da Terra (MCTer)
Set in a 1908 building at the foot of Sugarloaf Mountain, this geology museum holds more than 35,000 catalogued fossils and runs a permanent…
Museu dos Dinossauros de Peirópolis
Built around one of Brazil's richest Late Cretaceous fossil beds, this museum spans a converted train station and a research center, with sk…
Museu de Geociências da USP
After being closed for renovation since 2023, this university museum reopened in May 2025 with a 14-meter Allosaurus replica greeting visito…
Museu de Zoologia da USP
Tucked behind the Museu do Ipiranga, this university collection holds over 12 million specimens, but the showstopper for families is a life-…
Museum of Geology at South Dakota Mines
Tucked inside a working university, this museum punches above its size with mounted dinosaur, marine reptile, and mammal skeletons pulled st…
Museum of the Rockies
This Smithsonian-affiliated museum on the Montana State University campus houses the world's largest T. rex skull and one of the biggest col…
Nairobi National Museum
Kenya isn't a classic dinosaur country, but this museum's paleontology hall is genuinely world-class, anchored by Turkana Boy, one of the mo…
National Children's Science Center
Tucked just north of Changgyeonggung Palace, this compact hands-on science center gives its dinosaur display equal billing with space and so…
National Dinosaur Museum
Full skeletons, skulls and animatronic dinosaurs fill this Gold Creek Village museum, and kids can wander outside afterward to climb over li…
National Museum Bloemfontein
This museum's paleontology hall displays dicynodonts and other Permian mammal-like reptiles pulled from the surrounding Karoo rock, among th…
National Museum of Nature and Science
The basement fossil hall holds a T. rex mounted mid-crouch as if it's about to spring, which is the kind of detail that gets recounted at di…
National Natural History Museum of China
Renamed from the Beijing Museum of Natural History in 2023, this museum's dinosaur hall centers on a 22-meter Mamenchisaurus skeleton and a …
National Science Centre Delhi - Prehistoric Life Gallery
Life-size animatronic dinosaurs move and roar under dim lighting in this renovated prehistoric life gallery, one of the science centre's mos…
National Science Museum Thailand
On the northern edge of the Bangkok metro area in Pathum Thani, this science museum complex includes a Natural History Museum with fossil an…
National Taiwan Museum - Paleontology Branch
Housed in a 1933 heritage bank building across from 228 Peace Park, this branch of the National Taiwan Museum rotates dinosaur and paleoart …
Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi
Opened in late 2025 next to the Louvre Abu Dhabi, this museum's atrium display of five sauropod skeletons in dynamic formation is built to s…
Natural History Museum
The Dinosaurs gallery's animatronic T. rex, with its snapping jaw and tracking eyes, is the single most talked-about thing kids bring up aft…
Natural History Museum of Utah
Perched in the foothills above the university, this museum's Past Worlds gallery shows off one of the world's largest collections of mounted…
Nehru Science Centre - Prehistoric Animal Life Gallery
An animatronic T. rex and roughly thirty prehistoric animal models fill this indoor gallery, which opens onto a three-acre outdoor Science P…
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
The Bradbury Stamm Construction Hall of Ancient Life walks families through New Mexico's own fossil record, including the recently identifie…
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Dinosaur Hall
Dinosaur Hall pairs growth-series mounts of T. rex at three different ages side by side, giving kids a rare, concrete sense of how dramatica…
National Museum of Natural Science - Dinosaur Hall
Taiwan's flagship science museum draws families to its Life Science hall, where dinosaur skeletons and a large animatronic dinosaur that mov…
Osaka Museum of Natural History
A mounted Allosaurus skeleton greets visitors in Naumann Hall, but the real draw for kids is a hands-on display where they can touch real fo…
Paleozoological Museum of China
This compact three-floor museum, run by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology, displays actual holotype fossils rather than casts, includ…
Grande Galerie de l'Évolution (Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle)
While the museum's historic paleontology hall is closed for renovation until 2027, this evolution gallery has stepped in with a dinosaur-foc…
Perot Museum: T. Boone Pickens Life Then and Now Hall
This two-floor hall fills the museum with towering mounted skeletons, including the museum's own Alamosaurus, plus a glass-walled Paleo Lab …
Petrosains, The Discovery Centre – Dino Trek 2
Tucked inside the Petronas Twin Towers shopping mall, Dino Trek 2 lets kids wander among animatronic dinosaurs between rounds of the science…
Phu Wiang Dinosaur Museum
Set inside Phu Wiang National Park, this museum tells the story of Thailand's first major dinosaur discoveries with skeleton casts and fossi…
Dinosaurs Unearthed: Explore Prehistoric Queensland - Queensland Museum
This permanent gallery focuses on Queensland's own dinosaurs, including casts and fossils tied to the same Winton digs that produced Matilda…
Royal Ontario Museum - James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs
Mounted skeletons including a battling Gorgosaurus and Styracosaurus anchor this gallery, one of the ROM's most popular stops with kids raci…
Royal Tyrrell Museum
One of the world's premier dinosaur museums, with dozens of complete mounted skeletons including an Albertosaurus bonebed and horned dinosau…
Savannakhet Dinosaur Museum
A modest provincial museum near the Mekong riverfront displays genuine dinosaur bones roughly 150 million years old, unearthed from digs acr…
Science World - Search: The Sara Stern Gallery
Inside Science World's iconic geodesic dome, this natural history gallery lets kids spot stick insects, crystal formations and a T. rex amon…
Seodaemun Museum of Natural History
This district-run museum keeps dinosaur skeleton casts alongside a small outdoor dinosaur garden with life-size models, all on a manageable …
Shanghai Natural History Museum
A four-story, 140-million-year-old Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis skeleton anchors this purpose-built museum inside a free public sculpture par…
Sirindhorn Museum & Phu Kum Khao Excavation Site
Built right beside the Phu Kum Khao excavation site, this museum displays over 700 fossilized bones including the sauropod Phuwiangosaurus s…
Smithsonian Deep Time Fossil Hall
The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils, nicknamed Deep Time, fills 31,000 square feet with roughly 700 specimens, including a mounted T. rex devo…
Somervell County Museum
Housed in a historic building right on the town square, this small free museum keeps casts of the same dinosaur tracks found along the Palux…
Steinhardt Museum of Natural History
Israel's national natural history museum hangs a full-size replica Velociraptor over one of its ground-floor galleries, alongside real fossi…
Tahiri Museum of Fossils and Minerals
A giant fake dinosaur out front marks this fossil workshop-museum, where a guide walks visitors from 500-million-year-old trilobites through…
Thainosaur Museum
Opened in 2026 as part of the Asiatique riverfront's Bangkok Spectacular lineup, this museum pairs real fossils with a large-scale dinosaur …
Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point
About 30 minutes south of Salt Lake City, this Lehi museum packs in around 60 complete mounted dinosaur skeletons, one of the largest displa…
Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum
This state park museum walks families through Utah's fossil record with mounted skeletons and hands-on exhibits, then sends them outside int…
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
Hall 10 of Vienna's grand natural history museum is devoted entirely to dinosaurs, with a central viewing platform that lets families walk a…
Vietnam National Museum of Nature
Run by the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, this museum walks visitors through 3.6 billion years of life on Earth, including dinos…
Wagner Free Institute of Science
This free Victorian-era natural history museum has barely changed since the 1880s, with wood-and-glass cabinets of fossils, minerals, and mo…
Museum of Evolution, Polish Academy of Sciences
Housed inside the Palace of Culture and Science, this museum's dinosaur skeletons were brought back from Polish-led Gobi Desert expeditions …
Wyoming Dinosaur Center
This is one of the only places in the world where a family can see a full skeleton hall in the morning and then ride out to a working excava…
Zigong Dinosaur Museum
Built directly over the Dashanpu excavation site, this museum lets visitors look straight down at an in-situ fossil wall where dinosaur bone…