The
Carnegie Museum of Natural
History in Pittsburgh, PA was a real treat to
go finally see. I finally got to visit there in June, 2004. I've
wanted to see their Dinosaur Hall ever
since I was a child. The main thing I wanted to see in their collection
was their T. rex on display. It was the very first Tyrannosaurus - found
by Barnum Brown and documented by Henry Fairfield Osborne. They started
dismantling and redoing the exhibits soon after our visit. They're now
updated, more accurate, and the display area is three times larger. But it
was still great seeing the exhibits as I remembered them from all those dinosaur books of my youth.
This just gives me the excuse to get back out there to compare them to how they
look today. Just
click on the picture for the full size photograph.
