Royal Tyrrell Museum (Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology)
One of the world’s largest paleontology museums, in the badlands valley, with dozens of mounted dinosaur skeletons, Alberta fossils and a visible preparation laboratory.
Alberta · Canada
In the destination Calgary.
In the photo: Drumheller landscape
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The city
Town in the Red Deer River valley, in the middle of Alberta’s badlands, about 135 km from Calgary. It’s known for dinosaurs: it has the Royal Tyrrell Museum, one of the world’s largest paleontology museums, the Hoodoos sandstone pillars and Horseshoe Canyon, with layered, colorful slopes.
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The local experience
One of the world’s largest paleontology museums, in the badlands valley, with dozens of mounted dinosaur skeletons, Alberta fossils and a visible preparation laboratory.
Sandstone chimneys topped by flat stones, sculpted by wind and rain on the Red Deer valley slopes, about 16 km from Drumheller, with walkways and steps.
A horseshoe-shaped canyon in the badlands, about 17 km from Drumheller, with a roadside viewpoint and trails that descend between striped slopes.