Dinosaur museums in Utah
Mounted skeletons, quarry walls with the bones still in the rock, and tracks you can stand next to.
18 museums on this list, checked against their own websites in October 2026.
Natural History Museum of Utah
Twelve permanent exhibitions over four levels, from the Past Worlds dinosaur hall to gems and minerals, the Great Salt Lake and Utah's First Peoples.
Museum of Ancient Life
Sixty complete mounted dinosaur skeletons, and a lab where you can watch paleontologists dig out a 150-million-year-old Barosaurus.
Dinosaur National Monument Quarry Exhibit Hall
A hall built over a wall of about 1,500 dinosaur bones still in the rock, Stegosaurus and Allosaurus among them, with real fossils you can touch.
By region
Salt Lake County 2
- Discovery Gateway Children's MuseumSalt Lake City KidsA 60,000 square foot children's museum inside The Gateway with more than 20 hands-on exhibits. Kids can climb into a real Life Flight helicopter, take the wheel of a semi-truck cab, dig for fossils, run a child-sized city and watch the Stillson River Railroad.
- Natural History Museum of UtahSalt Lake City ScienceThe state's natural history museum, housed in the Rio Tinto Center, with twelve permanent exhibitions over four levels. Past Worlds holds the dinosaurs, a Ceratosaurus fossil is on display, and other halls cover gems and minerals, the Great Salt Lake and Utah's First Peoples.
Davis, Weber and Morgan 1
Utah County 3
- Museum of Ancient LifeLehi DinosaursNow called the Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life, this is Thanksgiving Point's dinosaur hall, with 60 complete mounted skeletons and more than 50 hands-on exhibits. The newer Need for Speed exhibit sets Jurassic predators like Ceratosaurus and Tanycolagreus side by side, and in the lab you can watch paleontologists and volunteers dig out a 150-million-year-old Barosaurus. Tickets are timed, so buying ahead is the move.
- Thanksgiving PointLehi OtherA nonprofit in Lehi that runs seven attractions over two campuses, including the Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life, the Museum of Natural Curiosity, the Butterfly Biosphere, Ashton Gardens and Curiosity Farms. The dinosaur museum has 60 complete dinosaur skeletons and more than 50 hands-on exhibits, and visitors can watch paleontologists and volunteers uncover a 150 million year old Barosaurus. Admission is ticketed, and dinosaur museum tickets are timed, so buy ahead.
- BYU Museum of PaleontologyProvo Dinosaurs FreeBYU's fossil museum says it holds one of the largest dinosaur collections in the world, and it shares a front parking lot with LaVell Edwards Stadium. Exhibits include Kosmoceratops, Supersaurus and Camarasaurus vertebrae, the pterosaur Caelestiventus hanseni from the Saints and Sinners Quarry, and displays on collecting fossils and lab tools.
Central Utah 3
- Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur QuarryCleveland DinosaursThe quarry at Jurassic National Monument has produced more than 12,000 fossils from at least 74 animals, and more than three quarters of the bones come from predators such as Allosaurus. The visitor center has over 2,000 square feet of exhibits, including an Allosaurus skeleton mount and replica skulls, and trails head out from it. The dig site is closed for construction for now, and the last 11 miles of road are graded gravel with no drinking water on site.
- John Wesley Powell River History MuseumGreen River HistoryA Green River museum about river running on the Colorado Plateau, with a Boat Room on how riverboats in the region evolved and a River Runners Hall of Fame that has inducted more than 30 people and groups since 1990. The lower level holds fossil and dinosaur specimens, and other displays cover Green River melons, Range Creek archaeology and southeastern Utah geology. Its current exhibition, Kayak Revolution, opened October 3, 2026 and follows the early kayakers on the plateau's rivers.
- Museum of the San RafaelCastle Dale ScienceCheck before you go
Southern Utah 3
- Big Water Visitor Center Museum, Grand Staircase-EscalanteBig Water Science FreeThe BLM's dinosaur stop for Grand Staircase-Escalante, on Highway 89 about 18 miles northwest of Page, Arizona. A full-length mural shows the Late Cretaceous landscape, and the paleontology and geology exhibits include dinosaur bones from a monument where fourteen new dinosaur species have been identified since 2005.
- Moqui CaveKanab ScienceA sandstone cave on Highway 89 about 5.5 miles north of Kanab, run as a museum, where the temperature stays under 65 degrees even in summer. It shows more than 180 dinosaur tracks, most found within 10 to 15 miles, Native American artifacts including about 1,000 arrowheads, and a large fluorescent mineral display 200 feet inside the cave.
- St. George Dinosaur Discovery SiteSt. George DinosaursBuilt over the actual rock surface where dinosaurs walked about 200 million years ago, with an elevated boardwalk that puts you right above the original tracks. Alongside the Grallator and Eubrontes footprints are fossil fish, plant impressions, ripple marks and even raindrop impressions from an Early Jurassic lake. You can watch paleontologists work in the fossil prep lab, and kids get an outdoor dino park with a sandbox.
Eastern Utah 6
- The Dinosaur MuseumBlanding DinosaursA nonprofit dinosaur museum in Blanding with exhibits on feathered dinosaurs, dinosaurs from around the world, and eggs and babies. One room covers dinosaurs in the movies, from The Lost World and King Kong to Godzilla, and there is a sculpture gallery. The site also carries a memorial page for paleontologist Stephen A. Czerkas.
- Dinosaur National Monument Quarry Exhibit HallJensen DinosaursThe hall is built over a wall of about 1,500 dinosaur bones from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, roughly 150 million years old, with eight species still in it, including Stegosaurus and Allosaurus. There are several spots where you can touch real fossils, and other displays cover the small mammals, clams, amphibians, reptiles and plants that lived alongside them. The hall is a short drive from the Quarry Visitor Center, and in summer a free shuttle runs because parking is limited.
- Moab GiantsMoab DinosaursA dinosaur park at SR-313, about 9 miles north of Moab off US 191, that pairs an outdoor trail of more than 100 life-size dinosaur models with an indoor Tracks Museum. Kids can dig in the Dig-It-Out excavation sites, run around the dino playground and catch a 3D film. The park suggests setting aside two to three hours.
- Utahraptor State ParkMoab DinosaursAbout 15 miles northwest of Moab, this state park protects the Dalton Wells Quarry, one of the largest dinosaur bone beds in North America. More than 5,500 bones from over ten dinosaur species have come out of it, including Utahraptor, Gastonia and Moabosaurus. The visitor center displays fossils including dinosaur claws and skulls, rangers lead quarry hikes and fossil talks, and the park also interprets the Dalton Wells CCC camp and the Moab Isolation Center site.
- USU Eastern Prehistoric MuseumPrice DinosaursUtah State University Eastern runs this Price museum on the rocks, fossils and prehistoric people of eastern Utah. Visitors can watch work in the Fossil Prep Lab and see an exhibit on eastern Utah rock art, and the current special exhibit looks back at 65 years of the museum's own handmade displays.
- Utah Field House of Natural History State Park MuseumVernal ScienceA 90-foot Diplodocus skeleton greets visitors in the rotunda of this state park museum in Vernal. The Jurassic Gallery shows a Stegosaurus and an Allosaurus over a Haplocanthosaurus, and the Eocene Gallery has a wall of leaf fossils and a diorama of life on the shores of Lake Uinta. In the Fossil Lab you can pick up a bone and chisel, and a rock wall lets visitors try to spot fossils among the pebbles.
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Photos, left to right and top to bottom: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Etemenanki3, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; NPS Photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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