Our History
Despite being a relatively young facility, the Royal Tyrrell Museum has established itself as Canada’s authority of palaeontology. What we lack in age, we make up for with our growing list of accomplishments.
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The Naming of...
We are named for geologist Joseph Burr Tyrrell (TEER-uhl) (1858-1957) who stumbled upon the skull of Canada’s first meat-eating dinosaur while prospecting for coal on behalf of the Geological Survey of Canada.
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A Brief History
We opened our doors on September 25, 1985 and during our first year of operations we surpassed all expectations, attracting over 500,000 visitors.
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Preparation Lab
Watch as fossils found right here in Alberta are prepared by our technicians for research and display.
- Passion for the Past
- Our Scientists
