Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point | Kids Out and About Salt Lake City

Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point

Travel back in time and explore what life was like over 65 million years ago in the Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life! With 60 complete dinosaur skeletons, this museum has one of the world’s largest displays of mounted dinosaurs right here in Lehi, Utah! More than 50 hands-on exhibits, like the Erosion Table and the Quarry Dig, make it easy to interact with prehistory. You can even watch our paleontologists and volunteers unearth a 150-million-year-old Barosaurus. Whether you come by day or night, the Museum of Ancient Life is a lively adventure you’ll never forget. With so much to explore and interact with, it’s one of the best dinosaur museums in Utah.

 

The Museum of Ancient Life has the distinction of being the world's largest display of mounted dinosaurs.  Not only will you meet our fierce prehistoric friends at the museum, though, you'll also become a part of their world.  While you're weaving through the exhibits, chirps of insects and growls of ancient creatures greet you in each hall.  Exhibits like the Erosion Table and the Fossil Dig give you an opportunity be a part of the science of paleontology.  Needless to say, this is not an ordinary museum.

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