Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (RTMP) is a paleontology museum and research center near Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. The museum is housed in a 12,500-square-meter (135,000-square-foot) facility created by BCW Architects at Midland Provincial Park and is dedicated to Joseph Burr Tyrrell.

The provincial government launched efforts to construct a paleontology museum in 1981, and the Provincial Museum of Alberta's paleontology program was split out to help support the development of a paleontology museum. The Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology opened in September 1985, after four years of planning. The museum's personal collection has over 160,000 cataloged fossils, including over 350 holotypes, giving it the country's biggest fossil collection. In its museum exhibits, the museum shows over 800 fossils from its collection. The museum's fossil collection is used by the museum's research program, which has a duty to chronicle and evaluates geological and palaeontological history, in addition to exhibitions.

Location: 1500 N Dinosaur Trl, Drumheller, AB T0J 0Y1, Canada

Website: tyrrellmuseum.com