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The Houston Museum of Natural Science (abbreviated as HMNS) is a natural history museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States.The museum was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, an organization whose goals were to provide a free institution for the people of Houston focusing on education and science.
Triceratops: HMNS 2006.1743.00 Lane Houston Museum of Natural Science: Houston: Texas: USA: Skeleton, mounted Triceratops: MOR 3027 Yoshi's Trike Museum of the Rockies: Bozeman: Montana: USA: Skeleton, mounted Triceratops horridus: AMNH 5116 American Museum of Natural History: New York: New York: USA. Skeleton, mounted (copy) Triceratops ...
Upon its arrival in Tampa, Big John was reconstructed in less than a week by technicians from Zoic workshop and displayed at the museum's annual gala on 3 February. [29] [30] The museum's Big John exhibition opened on 26 May, and the museum waived its usual rule prohibiting adults from attending the museum without accompanying children. [29] [30]
The Houston Museum District is an association of 21 museums, cultural centers and community organizations located in Houston, Texas, dedicated to promoting art, science, history, and culture. The Houston Museum District currently includes 21 museums that recorded a collective attendance of around 7 million visitors a year. [ 1 ]
Triceratops (/ t r aɪ ˈ s ɛr ə t ɒ p s / try-SERR-ə-tops; [1] lit. ' three-horned face ') is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, about 68 to 66 million years ago in what is now western North America.
[1] [2] [4] The Triceratops, named Uncle Beazley, becomes too big, so the boy brings him to the Smithsonian Institution. [2] Beazley is first kept at National Museum of Natural History, but is eventually transferred to the National Zoo's Elephant House because there is a law against stabling large animals in the District of Columbia. [1] [2]
In 2012, Naturalis Biodiversity Center at Leiden, the largest natural history museum of the Netherlands, planned to open a new exhibition hall in 2017.In order to increase the structural number of visitors from 300,000 to 400,000 per annum, the management decided to try and procure an authentic Tyrannosaurus skeleton, preferably one excavated by the museum itself.
The fossil collection was purchased by the Field Museum of Natural History at auction for $7.6 million, making it the most expensive dinosaur skeleton until the sale of Stan for $31.8 million in 2020. [11] From 1998 to 1999, Field Museum of Natural History staff spent over 25,000 hours taking the rock off the bones. [12]