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Dinosaur Journey Museum, or Museums of Western Colorado’s Dinosaur Journey, is a museum in Fruita in Mesa County, Colorado.

The museum offers an interactive and hands-on experience, showcasing over 15,000 fossil specimens. It features exhibits and displays highlighting regional discoveries, a visible paleontology lab where dinosaur bones are prepared for exhibition, a sandbox for creating your own dinosaur tracks, and a "quarry site" where children can excavate real Jurassic dinosaur bones.

See also

• Fruita Museum, a predecessor museum building in Fruita, built in 1938-39 as a Works Progress Administration project, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

References

1. "Dinosaur Journey Museum". Colorado.com. Retrieved 2024-05-20.

External links

• Museums of Western Colorado

• Dinosaur museums in the United States
• Museums in Mesa County, Colorado
• Fruita, Colorado
• Natural history museums in Colorado