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About the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology:
The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology isn't the easiest tourist attraction to drop in on, since it's located smack in the middle of a major dinosaur fossil site (Dinosaur Provincial Park) in the Alberta badlands (the nearest major city is Edmonton, a three-hour drive away). The bad news is that you have to plan your trip to the Royal Tyrrell carefully; the good news is that this museum contains some of Canada's most striking dinosaur discoveries, in a variety of exhibits.
"Cretaceous Alberta" features the dinosaurs that ranged across northern Canada 70 million years ago, while "Lords of the Land" boasts complete fossils of raptors and other predators. This museum's vast Dinosaur Hall contains about 40 mounted specimens, including T. Rex and Albertosaurus, and its Cretaceous Garden is billed as "one of the largest living collections of prehistoric plants in Canada." You can also see an exhibit devoted to the famous Burgess Shale, with oversized reproductions of the strange creatures of the Cambrian period.
