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Spain Natural
Science Museum France Museum
of Earth Sciences
Nancy, FRANCE 94, Av Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny 54000 Nancy The museum's prehistoric exhibit includes a fossilized Iguanodon. Natural History Museum Aix en Provence, FRANCE 6, Rue Espariat Hôtel Boyer-d'Eguilles 13100 Aix-en-Provence 42279127 Highlights: The museum covers ornithology, paleontology, botany, entomology and mineralogy. Dinosaur-related displays include dinosaur eggs of Hypselosaurus.
Natural History Museum
Le Havre, FRANCE Pl du Vieux Marchè 76600 Le Havre 35413728 Highlights: Local and general paleontology, geology, mineralogy, ornithology, general zoology, botany, and prehistory. A partail skeleton of Lexovisaurus is on display, as well as dinosaur eggs from Provence. Natural
History Museum
Nantes, FRANCE 12 Rue Voltaire Nantes 407330033 Highlights: Natural History Museum, prehistory, zoology, mineralogy, paleontology and botany. Dinosaur displays feature a dinosaur egg and fossilized dinosaur footprints.
National Museum of Natural History
Paris, FRANCE 57 Rue Cuvier 75005 Paris 202641 Highlights: Dinosaur fossils and casts from around the world. Specimens include Allosaurus, Comsognathus, Diplodocus, Iguanodon, Tarbosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus. Switzerland
Natural History Museum
Geneva, SWITZERLAND 1, route de Malagnou CP 434 1211 Genève 4 (022) 7359130 Highlights: The prehistoric exhibit includes a Camptosaurus cast, and an Allosaurus skeleton. Italy
Civic Museum of Natural History
Milan, ITALY G. Capellini Museum Bologna, ITALY Via Zamboni 63 40127 Bologna (051) 354555 Highlights: The museum's prehistoric exhibit includes a Diplodocus cast.
Museum of Palenontology
Institute of Technology Rome, ITALY Dolomite Alps Dolomite Alps, Italy Notes: Over 100 tracks of dinosaur footprints were left behind some 210 million years ago when this area was a but a mere island in the ancient Tethys Ocean. The tracks are located south of Rovereto, near Trento.
Civic Museum of Natural History
Venice, ITALY Santa Croce 1730 30125 Venezia (041) 5240885 Highlights: The museum's most notable dinosaur specimen is the world's only full display of an Ouranosaurus skeleton. Austria
Natural History Museum
Vienna, AUSTRIA Burgring 7,1014 Wien (0222) 932712 Highlights: The museum's collection features the Struthiosaurus and the Ouranosaurus. Poland
Paleobiology Institute
Academy of Sciences Warsaw, POLAND Al Na Skarpie 20-26 00-488 Warszawa, 298061 Highlights: The museum's large collection of dinosaur displays (which are mostly casts) include: Deinocheirus arms, Bagaceratops, Barsboldia, Gallimimus, Homalocephale, Opisthocoelicaudia, Prenocephale, and Tarbosaurus. There are also dinosaur eggs on display, as well as fossils of eight other Mongolian dinosaurs in storage. Russia
Paleontological Institute
Moscow, RUSSIA Leninskij prosp. 16 Moskva Highlights: The collection has a wide selection of dinosaur specimens, some of which include; Avimimus, Bactrosaurus, Bagaceratops, Iguanodon, Probactrosaurus, Protoceratops, Psittacosaurus, Talarurus, and Tarbosaurus.
Central Geological and Prospecting Museum
St. Petersburg, RUSSIA Vasil'evskij ostrov Srednyj pr. 72-b, St. Petersburg Highlights: The museum's prehistoric exhibit includes a Diplodocus cast, and a Mandschurosaurus. Sweden
Museum of Natural History
Göteborg, SWEDEN Naturhistoriska Museet Box 7283, Slottskogen 40235 Göteborg, SWEDEN 46-(0)31-145610
Paleontological Museum
Uppsala University Uppsala, SWEDEN Villavägen 9 Box 561, 751 22 Uppsala (018) 182668 Highlights: Displays of Alamosaurus, Euhelopus, Parasaurolophus, Pentaceratops, Tanius, and Tyrannosaurus. United Kingdom
Birmingham Museum
Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM Highlights: A Triceratops skull is displayed, as well as a full-scale Tyrannosaurus model.
Dinosaurland
Lyme Regis, UNITED KINGDOM Coombe Street, Lyme Regis Hours: 10am-5:30 pm Daily Highlights: Large collection of fossils. Guided fossil tour along the beach. Dinosaur models and scenes.
The Dinosaur Museum
Dorchester, UNITED KINGDOM Icen Way, Dorchester Highlights: Computer displays (hands-on), dinosaur skeleton, and a wide range of fossils.
Dudley Museum and Art Gallery
Dudley, West Midlands, UNITED KINGDOM Hours: 10am-5pm Monday-Saturday, closed Sunday Highlights: Features life-size Velociraptor, computer games, and models.
Elsham Hall Country and Wildlife Park
Elsham, South Humberside, UNITED KINGDOM Elsham, nr Brigg, South Humberside Hours: 11am-5pm daily Highlights: Features fossils and local dinosaur discoveries.
Hunterian Museum
Galsgow, UNITED KINGDOM Highlights: Diplayed at the museum are Iguanodon footprints and a Triceratops skull.
Ipswich Museum
Ipswich, UNITED KINGDOM Highlights: The museum's prehistoric exhibit includes fossilized dinosaur bones, teeth, and footprints.
Leicestershire Museum
Leicester, UNITED KINGDOM Highlights: The museum displays a Cetiosaurus skeleton as part of its prehistoric exhibit.
Maidstone Museum
Maidstone, UNITED KINGDOM Highlights: A restoration of Iguanodon, as well as fossils of that beast.
Museum of Isle of Wight Geology
Sandown, UNITED KINGDOM Highlights: The museum features fossils of Hypsilophodon, Iguanodon, and Yaverlandia. Also on display are megalosaurid and ornithopod footprints.
The Natural
History Museum
London, UNITED KINGDOM Cromwell Road, London SW7 Highlights: London's Natural History Museum contains fossil and cast specimens representing most of the prehistroic globe. This splendid collection includes: Baryonyx, Diplodocus, Euoplocephalus, Gallimimus, Hypsilophodon, Iguanodon, Triceratops, and Protoceratops eggs.
Oxford University Museum
Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM Highlights: Collection includes a Camptosaurus, Cetiosaurus, Eustreptospondylus, Iguanodon, Lexovisaurus, Megalosaurus, and a Metriacanthosaurus.
Planet Earth at Garden Paradise
New Haven, East Sussex, UNITED KINGDOM Avis Road, New Haven, East SussexRoyal Museum of Scotland Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM Highlights: The museum displays Allosaurus and Triceratops skeleton casts as part of its prehistoric exhibit. Also included are dinosaur footprints. Sedgwick Museum. Cambridge
University
Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM Highlights: The museum features fossil remains of British dinosaurs, which include Iguanodon specimens.
Yorkshire Museum
York, UNITED KINGDOM 10am-5pm daily Robotic Dinosaur Exhibits. Netherlands
Geologisch Museum
Artis Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS Hoofdstraat 18 Plantage Kerklaan 38-40 1018 CZ Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: 31-20-523340
Geologisch Museum
Heerlen, NETHERLANDS Voskuilenveg 131 6416 AJ Heerlen The Netherlands Tel: 31-45-763763
Moorder Dierenpark
Ep Emmen, NETHERLANDS Hoofdstraat 18 7811 Ep Emmen The Netherlands Tel: 31-5910-18800 Belgium
Bernissart Museum
Bernissart, Hainuat, BELGIUM Highlights: The prehistoric exhibits feature the fossils from an Iguanadon, excavated from a local coal mine.
Royal Institute of Natural Sciences
Brussels, BELGIUM Rue Vautier 31 1040 Brussels, (02) 6274211 Highlights: The museum has the world's largest collection of Iguanadon skeletons, as well as a Megalosaurus. Germany
Bavarian State Institute for Paleontology and Historical
Geology
Munich, GERMANY Richard-Wagner-Straße 10 W-8000 München 2, (089) 5203361 Highlights: Micropalenontology, fossil vertebrates and invertebrates, and paleobotany. Dinosaur displays of Compsognathus, Diplodocus fossils, a Monoclonius cast, and a Triceratops skull.
Institute and Museum for Geology and Paleontology
University of Tübingen TÜBINGEN, GERMANY Sigwartstrasse 10 W-7400 Tübingen, (07071) 292498 Highlights: Geology, paleontology, fossils, reptiles, ammonites- library. The dinosaur displays include Kentrosaurus and Plateosaurus skeletons, fossils of Coelophysis, Diplodocus, Hypsilophodon, Iguanodon, and Tyrannosaurus.
Geological and Paleontological Museum
Münster, GERMANY Pferdegasse 3 W-4400 Münster, (0251) 833942 Highlights: Regional geology and paleontology of Wesfalen-Lippe (Westphalia). The museum's dinosaur exhibit includes an Iguanodon skeleton and a Tyrannosaurus skull cast.
Natural History Museum
(Humboldt University) Berlin, GERMANY Adelheidallee 19-21 W-1000 Berlin 27-T (030) 8814068 Highlights: The Natural History Museum in Berlin contains some of the most famous fossil specimens in the world. Among the collection is an Archaeopteryx, the world's largest mounted dinosaur skeleton, the Brachiosaurus, plus a Dicraeosaurus, Dryosaurus, Elaphrosaurus, and Plateosaurus.
Senckenberg Nature Museum
Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY Senchenberganlage 25 W-6000 Frankfurt/Main Highlights: The Nature Museum in Senckenberg has a dinosaur collection representing the major areas of the globe. Among the fossilized or cast specimens you'll find are: Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, Iguanodon, Edmontosaurus, Stegosaurus, a Triceratops skull, and a cast skull of Protoceratops.
State Museum for Natural History Stuttgart, GERMANY Highlights: The museum's collection contains fossils or casts of Apatosaurus, Coelophysis, Hypsilophodon, Iguanodon, Plateosaurus, Procompsognathus, Sellosaurus, Thecodontosaurus, and Tornieria. |
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