If you want a close-and-personal experience at a dinosaur museum, Morrison Natural History Museum near Denver is the place to go. Not only can guests view the amazing exhibits, but they can also touch them and clean fossils in the paleo lab. The staff at MNHM pride themselves on teaching children significant and exciting scientific information, creating a love for the sciences.
Visitors will see T. rex and Triceratops skulls, the first Stegosaurus fossils ever found, live snakes, an interactive fossil lab, and the Big Stego Dig.
Located one half-mile south of Red Rocks Park in Morrison. MNHM is open daily at 10 am. Admission is $8 for ages 12 and older; $6 for ages 3-11; free for ages 2 and younger. For more information, call 303-697-1873 or visit mnhm.org.
Watch what happens at MNHM: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKVj8QA3rQw.