Carnegie Museum of Natural History
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as CMNH) is a natural history museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
| Carnegie Museum of Natural History | |
|---|---|
 One of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh | |
| Established | 1896 |
| Location | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Type | Natural History |
| Visitor figures | 300,000 |
| Director | Eric Dorfman, PhD (2015-present) |
| Public transit access | 54, 58, 61A, 61B, 61C, 61D, 67, 69 |
| Website | www |
Reputation
It has an international reputation for research and is ranked among the top five natural history museums in the United States.[1]
The museum gained prominence in 1899 when its scientists unearthed the fossils of Diplodocus.[2] Today its dinosaur collection has the world's largest collection of Jurassic dinosaurs. Its Dinosaurs in Their Time exhibition is the third largest collection of mounted, displayed dinosaurs in the United States (behind the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History).
Notable specimens include one of the world's only fossils of a juvenile Apatosaurus, the world's first specimen of a Tyrannosaurus rex,[3] and a recently identified species of oviraptorosaur named Anzu wyliei.[4]
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Carnegie Museum Of Natural History Media
Gift shop inside Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs at CMNH.
Fossil specimen of Anaethalion knorri from the Solnhofen limestone
Mummies from the Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt.
References
- ↑ Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Press RoomCarnegiemnh.org. Retrieved 2012-09-14.
- ↑ Batz Jr., Bob (1999-07-02). Dippy the star-spangled dinosaur. Pittsburgh. http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/19990702dippy2.asp. Retrieved 2009-08-11.
- ↑ Switek, Brian (2013-10-16). My T. Rex Is Bigger Than Yours.. Pittsburgh. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131016-tyrannosaurus-rex-smithsonian-wankel-fossil-day/. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
- ↑ Webner, Richard (2014-03-20). Carnegie Museum unveils dinosaur nicknamed 'chicken from hell'. Pittsburgh. http://www.post-gazette.com/local/region/2014/03/19/Chicken-from-hell-actually-a-dinosaur-Carnegie-Musuem-scientists-say/stories/201403190180. Retrieved 2014-04-14.