The province of Ontario has some of Canada's most popular museums, many of which feature noteworthy dinosaur collections. The exhibits may display the actual skeletons of the ancient prehistoric beasts or life-sized models arranged in natural settings. Several of these museums have permanent dinosaur exhibits while other smaller museums periodically host traveling exhibits.
Located in Morrisburg, Ontario, Prehistoric World is an outdoor dinosaur extravaganza. Visitors can walk along the nature paths and view life-size dinosaur models worked into the brush and hills. Prehistoric World features over 50 dinosaur exhibits including favorites such as pterodactyls and stegosaurs. Each statue includes an informational plaque about the species. Prehistoric World also offers children the chance to "dig" for their own fossils in a specially constructed excavation area.
Prehistoric World
Upper Canada Road
Morrisburg, Ontario
Canada
KOC-1X0
(613) 543-2503
c360.ca/morrisburg/pw
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto houses one of Canada's largest collections of dinosaurs in a permanent exhibit, including tyrannosaurus, parasaurolophus and triceratops. The collection also includes the largest dinosaur skeleton on permanent display in Canada, Gordo the Barosaurus. The gallery has four interactive touch screens with educational videos about how dinosaurs may have lived.
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queens Park
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
M5S 2C6
(416) 586-5549
rom.on.ca
The Canadian Museum of Nature, located in Ottawa, features a large fossil gallery that includes 300 specimens of marine creatures, dinosaurs and ancient mammals. The exhibits weave together an educational tale about the time of the dinosaurs, their demise and the rise of mammals. In addition to fossils, the museum also has life-sized dioramas of dinosaurs engaged in conflict in a reconstruction of their natural environment.
Canadian Museum of Nature
240 McLeod St.
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1P 6P4
(613) 566-4700
nature.ca/nature_e.cfm
