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MORRISON NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

http://town.morrison.co.us/mnhm 
The Morrison Natural History Museum is located south of Morrison on Highway 8. It is open to visitors from noon until 4 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. For further information, please call (303) 697-1873.
This is a local museum in the town that gave the geological, dinosaur-rich Morrison Formation its name, yet it is rarely mentioned in any of the tour guides of the Denver area. If you like dinosaurs, or have kids with you, DO NOT MISS THIS MUSEUM! (And do NOT confuse it with the nearby and well-publicized Dinosaur Ridge, where you can see dinosaur footprints.) The museum is a treasure house of real and cast dinosaur bones and parts, from the huge leg bones of Apatosaurus to the brain cast of a Triceratops. Most of the items can be handled, making this a wonderful place for the children.

Exhibits feature the state dinosaurs, many of which were collected in the nearby Rocky Mountain foothills. The collections and information are overseen by one of the dinosaur world's most well-known and colorful paleontologists, Dr. Robert Bakker. With his long beard and worn white hat, Bakker is a familiar figure from his many dinosaur TV documentary appearances, and he is the author of the revolutionary book, The Dinosaur Heresies, and a novel from a Velociraptor's point of view, Raptor Red.
MNHM curator of paleontology Dr. Robert Bakker (left) and MNHM curator of herpetology Dr. Robert Sprackland (center) selling promotional T-shirts at the Museum's 2002 open house event. Funds are still being raised for the exciting AJAX PROJECT.

Contact information:

MNHM
P.O. Box 564
Morrison, Colorado 80465

(303) 697-1873
Closed Mondays.

http://town.morrison.co.us/mnhm 
Visitors may also work on using an air drill to help separate rock matrix from the hip of an allosaur (being done by VMNH Deputy Director Teri Sprackland, right), make casts of dinosaur footprints, and dig in a sand pit to look for small fossils. Upstairs is an exhibit of the living reptiles and amphibians of Colorado, and fossils of mammals from the Denver area. There are guides available to provide tours, a gift shop, and good dining in nearby Morrison (one mile northeast of the museum).