Dinosaur Journey Museum
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Dinosaur Journey Museum, or Museums of Western Colorado’s Dinosaur Journey, is a museum in Fruita in Mesa County, Colorado.
The museum offers an interactive and hands-on experience, showcasing over 15,000 fossil specimens. It features exhibits and displays highlighting regional discoveries, a visible paleontology lab where dinosaur bones are prepared for exhibition, a sandbox for creating your own dinosaur tracks, and a "quarry site" where children can excavate real Jurassic dinosaur bones.{{Cite web |title=Dinosaur Journey Museum |url=https://www.colorado.com/fruita/history-heritage/archaeological-sites/dinosaur-journey-museum |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=Colorado.com |language=en}}
See also
- Fruita Museum, a predecessor museum building in Fruita, built in 1938-39 as a Works Progress Administration project, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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External links
- [https://museumofwesternco.com/ Museums of Western Colorado]
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Category:Dinosaur museums in the United States