Dinosaur Discovery Museum
Museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin
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The Dinosaur Discovery Museum is a natural history museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States. It is dedicated to the exploration and explication of the relationship between the theropods, which include early and modern birds and ancient carnivorous biped dinosaurs such as Carnotaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, and Archaeopteryx.
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Kenosha, Wisconsin
The museum was a former U.S. Post Office | |
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| Established | 2006 |
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| Location | 5608 10th Avenue Kenosha, Wisconsin |
| Coordinates | 42.5839°N 87.82365°W |
| Type | Paleontology, with a focus on theropods |
| Curator | Nick Wiersum |
Public transit access |  Kenosha Streetcar Kenosha Area Transit |
| Website | museums.kenosha.org |
The museum has the largest skeletal cast collection of theropods dinosaurs in North America and is the only museum to focus a gallery specifically on the evolution of birds (avian dinosaurs) from non-avian dinosaurs, with a second smaller gallery focusing on "Little Clint", a three-year-old Tyrannosaurus uncovered by a dig conducted with the Carthage Institute of Paleontology.[1] The museum is located in the former post office (later the home of the Kenosha Public Museum building) and is a part of the Kenosha Public Museums system.[2]
Carthage Institute of Paleontology
The museum houses the Carthage Institute of Paleontology. The institute conducts field explorations with students from Carthage College and volunteers on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation.[3] Fossils collected are kept at the museum and cleaned in the prep lab, as it is a federal repository. During the 2006 season, they discovered the remains of the youngest known Tyrannosaurus rex, nicknamed "Little Clint", with more bones of Little Clint found in 2007, along with hadrosaur and ceratopsian bones.[4]
History
The museum opened in 2006.[5] During the Kenosha unrest following the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Dilophosaurus statue outside the museum was toppled, and the museum was temporarily closed for repairs.[6]
Gallery
A mount of "Stan", a Tyrannosaurus rex cast that greets visitors to the museum.
The skull of the Suchomimus mount.
The skull of the Carnotaurus mount.
