The Dinosaur Journey Museum with the Museum of Western Colorado is a regional geological and paleontological museum that highlights the story of western Colorado’s history of life, along with the history of the surrounding area with robotic dinosaur reconstructions, cast skeletons, and real fossils. The interactive, hands-on museum features more than fifteen thousand fossil specimens throughout its displays, exhibits, and collections, an earthquake simulator, a “quarry site” where children can discover dinosaur bones, a sandbox for making dinosaur tracks, and a viewable paleontology laboratory. The exhibition hall includes fossil dinosaur bones and robotic reconstructions of Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, and many other dinosaurs.

Address: 550 Jurassic Ct, Fruita, CO, Phone: 970-858-7282

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