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Museum of the Rockies
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| Address: On the MSU campus at 600 W. Kagy Blvd in Bozeman Phone: (406) 994-2251 www.museumoftherockies.org |
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| When you walk through the Museum of the Rockies, you travel through more than four billion years in time. Learn about history and prehistory of the northern Rockies region through exhibits ranging from paleontology and Native American artifacts to historic photography and antique vehicles. Start your walk through time with a look at the universe and Montana's Big Sky in the Taylor Planetarium. The Taylor Planetarium is one of 25 facilities in the world with a computer graphics system that can simulate flight through space. It is the only major public planetarium in the surrounding three-state region.
The museum is well known for its paleontology research. On display are several important finds including the skulls of Torosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex and Triceratops and an 80 million-year-old nest of dinosaur eggs. Working at Montana sites, the museum's curator of paleontology, Jack Horner, has discovered important information about dinosaur biology and in recent years has made discoveries of international significance. One of the most spectacular finds, a Tryannosaurus Rex, has been cast in bronze and the 38 foot long and 15 foot tall skeleton stands in front of the museum. Montana's rich agricultural history is portrayed at the museum's living history farm where the daily life of early homesteaders is recreated for visitors. The Museum of the Rockies is open daily from 8am–8pm (summer) and 9am–5 pm Monday through Saturday and 12:30–5pm Sundays (winter). An admission fee is charged to nonmembers. For more information call or visit the web site. |
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