Badlands Dinosaur MuseumBadlands Dinosaur Museum combines vibrant exhibits and children's hands-on interactives, with active scientific research, collections, and fieldwork.
Badlands Dinosaur Museum
Local HistoryExplore the recent past at three history museums housed on our 12 acre campus: Joachim Regional Museum, the Pioneer Machinery Hall, and Prairie Outpost Park.
Explore Dickinson regional history
Badlands Dinosaur Museum, North Dakota Geological Survey, and Dickinson State University are delighted to invite you to attend our research symposium, Cretaceous and Beyond - paleontology of the Western Interior. Sept. 14-15 (presentations), and 13, 16-17 (fieldtrips).
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Mar
ND Traveling Student Art Show On Display Now
Read moreThe North Dakota Juried Student Art Show for 2017-2018 opens March 1st and features a variety of artwork from students in grades K-12. This exhibit
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Feb
Interview with I Know Dino podcast
Read moreBefore Christmas, Badlands Dinosaur Museum curator Denver Fowler and DSU prof. Liz Freedman Fowler were interviewed by the dinosaur podcast “I Know Dino”. The interview
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Feb
Joachim Hosts Community Art Show for February
Read moreThe Joachim Regional Museum presents the 2019 Community Art Show which features artworks in a variety of mediums by area artists. Open February 1-27, Monday-Saturday 9-5 with
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Jan
Museum to host national conference
Read more“Dickinson Dinosaur Museum will serve as host to a national paleontology conference this September “ Read the full story at The Dickinson Press
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Jan
Job Ad: Museum hiring FT preparator
Read moreBadlands Dinosaur Museum (Dickinson ND) is seeking to employ a fossil preparator (full-time) to add to its permanent paleontology staff. It is expected that the
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Oct
Museum exhibit wins international award
Read more“Museum exhibit wins international award” Read the full story at The Dickinson Press
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Oct
Dickinson Museum Researchers reveal incredible fossil owl
Read more“48-Million-Year-Old Fossil Owl Is Almost Perfectly Preserved” Read the full story on LiveScience
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Sep
Badlands Dinosaur Museum included in Reader’s Digest’s best dinosaur museums
Read more“Badlands Dinosaur Museum included in Reader’s Digest’s best dinosaur museums” Read the full story at Reader’s Digest
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Sep
Dickinson Museum Researchers scan Triceratops brain
Read moreTRICERATOPS BRAIN SCAN: This weekend we visited St. Louis, MO where a fossil Triceratops braincase from the Dickinson collection was CT scanned at the radiology
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Sep
Armored dinosaur teeth in the lab
Read moreARMORED DINOSAUR TEETH: Since we returned from the field about a week ago, seasonal preparator (and fieldwork crewmember) Jack has been busy cleaning mud from
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Aug
Newly donated rhino skull
Read moreDICKINSON’S RHINOCEROS: For today’s #FossilFriday we have this newly-donated specimen of a young fossil rhinoceros, probably a Subhyracodon from Eocene rocks (~35million years old) that
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Aug
Fowler and team uncover complete tyrannosaur in Montana
Read more“Fowler and team uncover complete tyrannosaur in Montana” Read the full story at The Dickinson Press
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Apr
Fieldwork 2018 plans in the news
Read more“Fowler set to uncover new species of ankylosaur” Read the full story at The Dickinson Press
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Mar
Molding and casting a dinosaur
Read moreDr. Liz Freedman Fowler is busy molding this fossil slab in the lab – but what is it? All will be revealed later this year,
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Mar
Opening a new ankylosaur jacket
Read moreThis past week we have added a display case next to the laboratory window which showcases some of the recently prepared bones from the new
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Feb
Augmented Reality Sandbox fully operational!
Read moreOur Augmented Reality Sandbox is now fully up and running. We have just installed some new features for you to try, including a “Primordial Earth”
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Jan
Feathered dinosaur models in the news
Read more“Museum Center preparing ‘Claws Exhibit’; feathered dinosaurs are the ‘stars'” Read the full story at The Dickinson Press