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I've seen this in person, and almost every year I visit the museum and have the same reaction. I stand there in wonder looking at it for about 30 minutes. The connection to the past world feels absolutely visceral. You can get very close to it, and it is never too busy around the museum as it is so large. If you ever get a chance to visit this part of Canada (Drumheller), and particularly this museum, you should go for it.



I second this! I visited the Tyrrel museum in Drumheller and the Dinosaur provincial park that's near Patricia as a young adult about 20 years ago and it is still imprinted in my memory.

I had seen dinosaur skeletons in museums before but it didn't compare. Also guided tours through the limited access of the park were amazing, almost surreal, with fossils of dinosaur bones just popping out of the ground now and then plus the chance of seeing active digs.


When we were kids we used to canoe down the Red Deer river in the badlands area, with a fellow from my parent's canoe club who was a retired geologist. (I grew up in central Alberta and my parents were pretty serious canoers, they usually did faster moving whitewater but once in a while we'd do the Red Deer just for us kids) My sister and I would have our minds blown by him as he explained every rock to us. I doubt you could do what we did now, we'd climb all over the hoodoos and find fossils all over (mostly bison bones, but still the odd fossil.) We never took them home, and I believe anything of import was either given to the museum or he told them about it.

Lots of neat little caves, bones all over. Very awesome place. Especially when you're a dinosaur obsessed 8 year old.

There was one time we were going down the river and there was a cow on the bank stuck in the mud up almost up to its neck. I remember the adults going to find the rancher and a lot of fuss and the cow was eventually saved.


That sounds like an excellent idea for a trip. I'd love to do that with my kid, it would awesome.




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