11 dinosaur museums to visit with your grandkids

3. THE FIELD MUSEUM 1400 S. DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago WHAT YOU’LL SEE: The museum claims the largest, most complete and best-preserved _T-rex_ fossil in the world, known familiarly

as “Sue.” OPEN: Daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.  ADMISSION: $29. Discounts for children, older adults and city and state residents. 4. ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY 1900 Benjamin

Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia WHAT YOU’LL SEE: Home to the world’s first mounted dinosaur skeleton (_Hadrosaurus foulkii_) has stood on display since 1868. More than 30 species can be seen

in Dinosaur Hall, including _T-rex,_ _Avaceratops, Chasmosaurus, Corythosaurus, Deinonychus, Pachycephalosaurus, Tenontosaurus_ and _Tylosaurus_. OPEN: Wednesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

ADMISSION: $22. Discounts for children, older adults, and with online purchase. 5. NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles WHAT YOU’LL SEE: A 

_Triceratops prorsus_ locked in mortal combat with a _T-rex_. OPEN: Wednesday to Monday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ADMISSION: $15. Discounts for children, students and older adults. BONUS: Nearby

at La Brea Tar Pits you’ll find preserved fossils on display included a saber-toothed cat, a mammoth and a ground sloth. 6. DINOSAUR JOURNEY OTHER DINOSAUR MUSEUMS • Alabama Museum of

Natural History, Tuscaloosa • Alaska Museum of Science and Nature, Anchorage • Arizona Museum of Natural History, Mesa • Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Colorado • Florida Museum of

Natural History, Gainesville • Idaho Museum of Natural History, Pocatello • Kansas University Natural History Museum, Lawrence • Kentucky’s Big Bone Lick State Historic Site, Union • 

Louisiana Museum of Natural History, Baton Rouge • University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, Ann Arbor • Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Jackson • Missouri’s Mastodon State

Historic Site, Imperial • Montana Dinosaur Center, Bynum • Las Vegas Natural History Museum, Nevada • Milwaukee Public Museum, Wisconsin • New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science,

Albuquerque • Oklahoma’s Sam Noble Museum, Norman • Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Ohio • Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene • Pennsylvania’s Carnegie Museum of

Natural History, Pittsburgh • Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City • Washington’s Burke Museum, Seattle 550 Jurassic Court, Fruita, Colorado WHAT YOU’LL SEE: The exhibition hall

features fossil bones of dinosaurs such as _Apatosaurus _and _Allosaurus_, along with robotic reconstructions of _Dilophosaurus, Utahraptor, Triceratops, T-rex_ and _Stegosaurus_. OPEN: 

Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. ADMISSION: $9. Discount for children and older adults. BONUS: The Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center in Woodland Park has on display a carnivorous 

_Albertosaurus libratus_ (a close but older relative of _T-rex_) and a _Bambiraptor_. 7. WYOMING DINOSAUR CENTER 110 Carter Ranch Road, Thermopolis, Wyoming WHAT YOU’LL SEE: Among the 30

dinosaur skeletons on display is “Jimbo,” a 106-foot-long sauropod that stretches the length of the museum. OPEN: Daily, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., May 15 through Sept. 14 (hours shortened the rest

of the year). ADMISSION: $12. Discounts for children, older adults and veterans. BONUS: You can join an actual fossil dig (staff and visitors have excavated more than 14,000 bones from

nearby sites). Advanced registration is required for the “Dig for a Day” program that’s open to all ages, but being in good physical health is recommended. 8. HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL

SCIENCE 5555 Hermann Park Drive, Houston WHAT YOU’LL SEE: The Morian Hall of Paleontology is packed with models of prehistoric predators in action, chasing their prey. There are also

skeletons suspended from the ceiling, slabs of petrified wood and other fossils on display. OPEN: Daily, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and until 8 pm on Thursdays. ADMISSION: $25. Discounts for children

and older adults.