Current Exhibits
Journey through time and come face-to-face with some of Canada's mightiest dinosaurs. With nine ever-evolving galleries, fun hands-on activities, and the rugged beauty of Alberta's badlands, there's something for everyone.
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Cretaceous Garden
The ancient Alberta landscape was much different than what you see today. Dinosaurs and other animals lived in a lush, coastal environment dotted with swamps, ponds, and marshes.
Opens May 17.
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Terrestrial Palaeozoic
Walk through over 200 million years in ten paces. This condensed window of life from the Silurian to Permian periods contains some of the plants, insects and amphibians of the time.
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Cretaceous Alberta
Explore Alberta as it was 69 million years ago and come face to face with a pack of Albertosaurus dinosaurs.
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Science Hall
Before embarking on your journey through the Museum take a few minutes to learn the basics of palaeontology.
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Preparation Lab
Watch as fossils found right here in Alberta are prepared by Museum technicians for research and display.
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Lords of the Land
Witness the beauty of the beasts in this exhibit highlighting some of the Museum's most rare, fragile, and scientifically significant pieces.
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Burgess Shale
Immerse yourself in a 505-million-year-old water world and discover one of the most important fossil resources ever found.
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Age of Mammals
Introduce yourself to the most recent era in the history of life on Earth and discover that change, not stability, is the nature of our world.
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Ice Age
Explore a startlingly different world with giant, woolly mammoths, mastodons, and sabre-toothed cats.
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Behind the Scenes
Take a video tour behind-the-scenes and discover what happens to fossils once they’re collected in the field.
- Inside the Royal Tyrrell Museum
