Royal Tyrrell Museum

About This Museum

Everyone comes to the Royal Tyrrell for the dinosaurs, obviously, but what you're not prepared for is just how breathtakingly real they feel. One moment you're walking through the stark Alberta badlands, and the next you're standing beneath the impossibly long neck of a Cast of a Titanosaur, its skeleton so massive it defies belief. The magic here isn't just in seeing the bones; it's in the brilliantly crafted dioramas that place these ancient creatures in their lush, prehistoric worlds. I spent hours completely lost in time, from the eerie Burgess Shale exhibit to watching a paleontologist meticulously clean a real fossil in the lab. It’s an experience that doesn’t just show you history—it drops you right in the middle of it.