two medicine dinosaur center

Like a couple of other reviewers I thought the price was a little steep for the size but keep in mind that's how they fund most of their work. The folks here have found some amazing specimens and their lifesize model is pretty darn impressive. If you are a dinophile, or your kids are, def check into their field trips ahead of time. If watching work on fossils is your thing allow more than an hour if not this is a half hour to 45 min stop. The fossil/rock shop next door is fun

8 September 2014 Field Trip - One Day Guided Experience by the Dinosau Center Staff.We'd decided to spend some time on our travel between Glacier N P and Yellowstone N P due to the weather. Having visited this museum several years before, we knew they had field trips. On that visit it was hot and already past noon and they were preparing to leave with a group for an afternoon overview of their field work. We just weren't prepared to commit. But this time was different. When we arrived they told us we should have arranged in advance and they had a minimum group size, and the season was over. However, the sign was up and they said if we'd do the one day trip the next day, they'd take us out. For the cost of one of the moderately priced excursions off a cruise ship, we decided that we'd take them up on the offer. Wow. I hope they can give that kind of experience to everyone. Even, for a cranky old husband, not much interested in old bones, I have to admit to at first being mildly interested -how can a bone fragment that has turned to a weak rock look like any other rock- and then being blown away by what we were shown on this excursion. Hey, you have to experience it to believe it! In the end -the afternoon of this trip- we were a couple of seniors laying on the Montana cattle land digging in the dirt to 'save' a dinosaur ankle bone before weather and livestock could render it useless to science. Our guide did the plaster-of-paris work after we'd finished carefully digging around specimen, following his guidance. Once the plaster protective cap had cured, they'd remove the specimen to their lab at the museum.Cannot find the words to fully describe this experience. And the suprises. Hey, that's for you to enjoy and the staff to sell to support their work. I'm sure the experiences change over time as specimens are removed for science. But, you probably don't want to miss this opportunity if you or your spouse is into learning about the field work associated with this hands-on science.

Inside the unassuming building are a lot of spectacular fossils and active research into dinosaurs, most of them found in the surrounded landscape. There is a lot this museum has to offer, considering its location. I had a chance to speak with one of the lab technicians who told me what they were working on, and its really exciting stuff! Great for dinosaur enthusiasts and hardcore fanatics.

Both my wife and I enjoyed the Two Medicine Dinosaur Center. The highlight for me was definitely observing the scientists/technicians working on the fossils that had been brought in from the field through a glass window. I had never seen that in person before. The total exhibit size is very small, but concise and informative. The admission fee was $8 each, if I remember correctly, which I thought was a little high, but it does go to further the cause of the center. The gift shop area in the lobby offers a small number of items. The staff was very friendly and even took a picture of us outside with their fiberglass dinosaur.

While driving to Glacier we stopped at the Two Medicine Dino Center. We had just visited The Museum Of The Rockies the day before and had dinosaur fever in our heads. The museum is small but informative and they have some interesting fossils that we hadn't seen prior. The cost is not much and it was fun. You can watch the meticulous work of cleaning the fossils or can sign up for a dig if you want. This place does real research. There is a small gift shop as well. Makes a nice stop on the way to Great Falls.

First off, there is a huge difference between visiting the museum and taking a dig trip withTwo Medicine Dinosaur Center. While the museum is humble, the dig trips are not. My 14-year-old daughter and I were given the two day experience as her Make-A-Wish experience. While one day is a great introduction, I would highly recommend the longer experience for older kids. Jeffery B's description of the first day in another review is spot on (our first day was with Corey the geologist and a wonderful summer intern) except that we were given longer in lab and didn't have a "work" assignment the first day. Instead, on the second day, with Dave Trexler, a paleontologist with 50 years experience hunting fossils in the area and part of the family who discovered the first baby dinosaurs ever, we began excavation on an untouched fossil. When we started, a small tip was pointing out of the side of the hill. By lunch, we thought we had discovered all of it and planned to come back to put on a "field jacket" and remove it. Instead, a bit more uncovering after lunch revealed that we were at the tip of an iceberg - an entire ceratopsian shoulder blade (group of horned dinosaurs like triceratops, exact dino to be identified later) was under the dirt. We exposed the first 15" or so which Dave thought to be about 1/3 of the fossil. It was incredible to think we were the first to reveal a bone from a creature that had been buried 70 million years ago. The visit completely filled my daugher's wish.

This 'museum' tells the story of the dinosaurs very well, but doesn't make it terribly exciting and most fossils were reproductions rather than original. I guess you need time to take the tour.I'm sure the work that goes on here is really worthwhile, but for the visitor calling in on spec, it wasn't that thrilling, I'm afraid. The young girl on the desk answered our questions, but we didn't stay too long.

We took our 4 (8 - 13 yrs) kids (3 boys, 1 girl) to the Two Med Dinosaur Center on our summer vacation to Glacier NP. I (a bit nervously) signed us up for the 'All Day' experience. Wow, Totally worth every penny and minute!! Stacia was a intelligent, warm and gifted guide! Matt's not bad either ; ) We found the whole experience Informative, interesting and surrounded by natural beauty of the landscape. Cannot recommend enough!

We met up with our guide Matt, a very outgoing and interesting geologist with the Center and two other members of the staff (university interns on summer break) in the morning. We signed release forms, filled up our water bottles and then piled into their van and were off. First stop was a site on a beautiful grassy hillside where we learned how to spot dinosaur bone fragments that were laying in the gravel road. Kind of amazing to hold a 75 million year old bone in your hand!From there we went to a couple of other sites where erosion was slowly exposing bones that have been buried for tens of millions of years. At one site we found ourselves surrounded by hundreds of pea-sized fragments of dinosaur egg shell. Now at all of these sites we are surrounded by the most beautiful and spectacular scenery imaginable. This is big sky country and it does not disappoint. Rolling green hills dappled with sunlight that go on for miles, with snow capped mountains in the distance. One could not ask for a better classroom.We drove back into town for lunch at a local cafe where Matt and our interns kept the conversation going with topics from the science of dinosaur bone preservation, to current events in paleontology, to the possibility of cloning dinosaurs ("Jurassic Park"...could it really happen) to the history of the local area. After lunch we headed back into the field and were given our "work" assignment; continue excavation of what was probably a thigh bone of a hadrosaur (actual identification happens later in the lab). After learning how to use pick and brush to carefully expose the relic we set to work in our "office" (where the clouds were getting dark and turbulent). It was slow going but oddly peaceful and satisfying work that went by very quickly as we talked and laughed and generally enjoyed the afternoon.We ended the day back at the Two Medicine Dinosaur Center where we stepped into the back room and "the lab" which did not disappoint! It looked just like what I expected a lab to look like. Packed with books, microscopes, and gadgets of all sorts and with bones filling every possible surface, still set in soil encased with plaster and burlap "bowls" (which is how they transport the samples to the lab). On one bench I spotted something that looked like dried out alligator skin. It was in fact the under-shell of a sea tortoise, about 75 million years old. All in all this was a fun, engaging and educational day that we will not soon forget. Our guides were not only extremely bright, knowledgable and infectiously-enthusiastic scientists, but just generally warm, kind and accommodating hosts who were very concerned with our comfort and making sure we had a good time. And I'll add that we stayed a few minutes down the road in the town of Chateau, MT in a very nice and friendly hotel (Stage Stop Inn). This is a beautiful place full of lovely people, and it's all just a couple hours away from Glacier National Park, Yellowstone and not far from I-15 and Great Falls. I would recommend that anyone on vacation in this area try to work this into your vacation if you can!

When we visited the Two Medecine Dinosaur Center we were very lucky because one of the paleontologists was at the museum and he was more than willing to answer all your questions and to tell elaborately about his latest finds and theories. That made our visit very interesting; we stayed more than two hours checking everything out and talking to this guy. It was very fascinating and we learned a lot!

forget the kids, my wife got excited about the dinosaurs. The huge dino is amazing, the gift store has great fossils to buy.

Did you ever touch a 130 million year old dinosaur femur? You can here! Lots of cool stuff. Paleontologists at work. Helpful, well informed staff. Great fossils. A great hour.

We did not take the main highway route between Glacier Park and Great Falls and are we glad we didn't. We found this gem and oh what a gem it is. Packed inside this museum is the world's largest to scale dinosaur in the world. Facinating, simply facinating. My wife and I spent over an hour in the museum and learned a ton of stuff about our past earth. And the staff was oh so friendly and answered all our questions while they were working on actual dinosaur bones. We can't say enough wonderful things about this little place. If you are near Glacier Park or Great Falls it is well worth the short drive to discover the discoveries in this wonderful little museum. We can't wait for our great nephews to see this place. And don't forget to visit the rock shop on the other side of the parking lot!

What a find! We pulled in as a joke because of the crazy huge dinosaur in the parking lot and ending up spending about two hours there. I learned more in the time i spent there about geology, paleontology, and ancient life on earth than I did in all my years at school. The staff is totally interested in what they do and love to share their knowledge and passion with you. The exhibits are really well done and cover an incredible time span of information and integrate multiple areas on our plant's history. I highly recommend making it a stop if you're in the Glacier area.

Stop in to gave the center some dinosar eggs that I though were somekind of eggs... Was surprise what they had of dinosaurs and how large they were..