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What if you could walk through time and come face to face with animals that lived here thousands, even millions of years ago?
Welcome to the Royal Tyrrell Museum
Introduction
The Royal Tyrrell Museum celebrates the long history and spectacular
diversity of life - from the tiniest grains of pollen to the mightiest
dinosaurs.
Set in the Alberta badlands, the Museum opened in September, 1985. Four
hundred thousand visitors were hoped for that first year. Nearly 600,000
came, and hundreds of thousands continue to visit each year.
They come to experience the power and excitement of some of the most
remarkable fossil displays anywhere in the world, in Canada’s only
institution devoted entirely to palaeontology.
The Government of Alberta, under the Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Recreation and Culture,
operates the Museum. Our mandate is to collect, conserve, research and
interpret palaeontological history with special reference to Alberta’s
fossil heritage.
Click here to view Virtual Tours of the Royal Tyrrell Museum.
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What to see at the Museum
Begin your journey through geological time with galleries and feature exhibitions that
celebrate the spectacular history and diversity of life on Earth, and the palaeontologists
who bring the stories to life.
There’s been life on Earth for more than 3.9 billion years, so we have a lot to show you!
Nexen Science Hall
Interact with exhibits demonstrating basic scientific concepts
Preparation Lab
Watch as museum staff prepare fossils for research and display
Lords of the Land
Meet some of the smallest and the tallest meat-eating dinosaurs
Burgess Shale
Experience larger-than-life creatures living in a prehistoric ocean bed
Devonian Reef
View a giant recreation of underwater life from 350 million years ago
Cretaceous Garden
Walk through our living exhibit: a garden containing the plants dinosaurs ate millions of years ago
Dinosaur Hall
Visit our big attraction, featuring almost 40 mounted skeletons of ancient dinosaurs
Age of Mammals
Trace the evolution of mammals as they became more recognizable
Ice Ages
Travel back to a colder time not so long ago and not so far away
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