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About the Burpee Museum of Natural History:
Nowadays, you can't be a competitive natural history museum if you don't have your very own T. Rex. Recently, the Burpee Museum of Natural History joined the big leagues when it put Jane, a juvenile T. Rex, on exhibit. In "Jane: Diary of a Dinosaur," visitors learn about the discovery, excavation and restoration of this teenaged T. Rex, a process that took a painstaking four years.
Although Jane is the biggest dinosaur at the Burpee Museum of Natural History, she isn't the only prehistoric creature on display. This museum features an innovative, two-story-tall reproduction of a forest from the Carboniferous period, with models of the insects and amphibians that populated this region of Illinois 300 million years ago. You can also see an exhibit devoted to the Ordovician Sea, the body of water that covered North America about 450 million years ago, when dinosaurs had yet to evolve.
