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What is the largest dinosaur skeleton museum?

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The largest dinosaur skeleton museum in the world is often considered to be the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada due to its extensive collection of more than 160,000 fossils and its specialization in dinosaurs. However, if you’re looking for the largest mounted dinosaur skeleton, different museums hold that title.

Largest Dinosaur Museums by Collection Size

  1. Royal Tyrrell Museum (Alberta, Canada)
    • Specializes in dinosaurs with one of the largest fossil collections globally.
    • Located in the Badlands, one of the most fossil-rich regions on Earth.
    • Home to the world’s best-preserved armored dinosaur, Borealopelta.
  2. American Museum of Natural History (New York, USA)
    • Houses over 600 dinosaur fossils and thousands of specimens.
    • Features a 122-foot-long Titanosaur (one of the largest ever mounted).
  3. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (Washington, D.C., USA)
    • Features a newly renovated “Hall of Fossils – Deep Time”.
    • Home to a spectacularly posed T. rex fighting a Triceratops.
  4. Zigong Dinosaur Museum (Sichuan, China)
    • Built over a massive dinosaur excavation site.
    • Features Asia’s largest collection of Jurassic fossils.
  5. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Brussels, Belgium)
    • Houses the largest collection of Iguanodon fossils.

Largest Mounted Dinosaur Skeletons

  • The Titanosaur (American Museum of Natural History, NYC, USA)
    • A 122-foot-long cast of Patagotitan mayorum, the largest known dinosaur.
  • Giraffatitan (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany)
    • The tallest mounted dinosaur skeleton in the world at 42 feet (13 meters) tall.
  • Argentinosaurus (Museo Municipal Carmen Funes, Argentina)
    • Estimated to be the largest land animal ever, though only partial remains exist.

For the largest collection of dinosaur fossils, the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Canada is a top contender, while the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum für Naturkunde hold some of the biggest mounted skeletons.