Explore the province of Alberta as it was 70 million years ago. The Cretaceous Alberta gallery was inspired by the dig Tyrrell palaeontologists conducted at Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park where over 22 albertosaurs were excavated from one of the richest theropod bonebeds on record.

Presented as works of art in gilded frames and atop Tuscan columns, the Lords of the Land highlights some of the most rare, fragile, and scientifically significant specimens at the Royal Tyrrell Museum - including the famous "Black Beauty" and one of the museum’s two tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs.

Here's where you'll see 40 mounted dinosaur skeletons (including a tyrannosaurus rex!) and over 120,000 fossil specimens. Dinosaur Hall is also where you'll see Albertosaurus, the dinosaur first discovered by Joseph B. Tyrrell (the museum's namesake). As you can imagine, Dinosaur Hall is one of the museum's most popular exhibits.

Enter world of ice and snow where giant glaciers carved out massive canyons and wooly mammoths and sabre-tooth tigers ruled the continent. And find out how the very first humans were able to walk from Asia to North America to begin populating the regions we now call home.

Pull levers, push buttons, and make science do it’s thing. You’ll learn about scientific concepts like geologic time and continental drift as you touch and explore your way through the hall. Why are there so many dinosaur remains in the Drumheller Valley? How are fossils created? Here’s where you’ll find the answers.

Step into a giant recreation of underwater life from 350 million years ago. The Devonian Period has been termed the “Age of Fishes” and this exhibit will show you why. This recreation of a 375 million-year-old reef features thousands of life-like prehistoric underwater creatures from back when Alberta was totally underwater.

The Age of Mammals was a time of experimentation as animals evolved in weird ways in an attempt to adapt to their surroundings. See wolf-like Mesonyx, primitive whales, and three-toed horses as you follow the evolution of primitive beasts into modern-day mammals.

Here is where the dinosaur pros strut their stuff. Watch as real museum technicians prepare fossils and dinosaur remains for future museum displays. The winter is best time to see the experts work after their busy summer of prospecting and collecting fossils in the field.