Museum of Ancient Life

[oldtimer]

I am currently spending some time in Salt Lake doing some snow skiing. Not much snow sad to say.  I made a trip The Museum of Ancient Life in Lehi Utah and thought I would share some of the  specimens that they have on display.  It's a nice play with about 60 Dinosaurs on display. They also have a lot of small fossils from the Utah and surrounding states. The nice thing is that a lot are hands on displays and are up close and personal.  You really get a good representation of their size.

 

First thing one sees upon entering.

You are encouraged to touch.

 

Shot of the guys working on a current project.

Outside the lab is a jacketed specimen.  And yes you can touch.

[oldtimer]

A Dimetrodon and a small Dicynodont in the back. A little over three feet long.

[oldtimer]

They have very nice natural displays.

Othnielia  close up from the group.

[oldtimer]

[caldigger]

I really like the way they are in diorama displays. 

[oldtimer]

Yeah they really had some nice displays.

Most were close and not in display cases so they could be touched.

And no sign saying please do not touch. There were however a few digits missing

on some but I am sure they were replicas.

[oldtimer]

Jurassic Diplodocus skull                                                                                                      Allosaurus

 

Utahraptor

 

                                                                                 Supersaurus Dorsal Vertebra showing plastic deformation.

[Tidgy's Dad]

I think this is marvelous.

Some of the best laid out displays i've seen, interactive and seeing people at work on prep. 

Thanks for sharing, these are great photos, too. 

[oldtimer]

And yes they had a huge one that you could walk under and around as well as touch.

Felt like we were in the movie Jurassic Park.

 

Anhanguera                                                                                                                                         Eremotherium from the late Pleistocene                                                     

[oldtimer]

4 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

I think this is marvelous.

Some of the best laid out displays i've seen, interactive and seeing people at work on prep. 

Thanks for sharing, these are great photos, too. 

Thanks.  For some quick shots with a phone they did turn out well.

There were a few guys using microscopes to do there work.

[Tidgy's Dad]

5 minutes ago, oldtimer said:

Thanks.  For some quick shots with a phone they did turn out well.

There were a few guys using microscopes to do there work.

No chance they want to swap a Dimetrodon for a bit of Kem Kem stuff? 

[oldtimer]

Struthiomimus          Late Cretaceous                                                                                     Xiphactinus  audax     Cretaceous ocean      

        

Diatryma  Eocene period                                                                                               

[oldtimer]

And yes they had skulls...

[oldtimer]

My phone died before I could take all the pictures I wanted.  There was still more to see.

[BadlandTraveller]

Looks great, thanks for posting.

[jpc]

They have some cool stuff there.  They used to have access to a really good Morrison Fm quarry here in Wyoming and collected a lot of their Jurassic dinos there.  

[Xiphactinus]

thanks for the pix! Cool museum.

[ynot]

Thanks for the tour.

Nice!

[Ash]

Platybelodon looked silly lol. Thanks for sharing!

[Masp]

 Thanks for the tour, awesome pictures!