Grand Valley Zoological Quest and Dinosaur Journey Museum presents a collaborative effort - the future Green River Formation Living Exhibit.

The Green River Formation Shoreline Living Exhibit will link the fossils from our area during the Eocene Epoch to living mixed species today. Fossils of animals past will be displayed alongside living animals such [...]

Curator John Foster was featured in the January 2 issue of The Daily Sentinel, unveiling the newest addition to Dinosaur Journey - a 2.87 billion year old metamorphosed rock.  Check out the story here. This specimen is scheduled to be on exhibit in the late spring.

We have our National Fossil Day 2011 Coloring Contest Winners!
The 2-4 age group:

The 5-7 age group:

The 8-14 age group had 3 winners!:
A huge thanks to everyone who entered!

To celebrate the second annual National Fossil Day the Museum of Western Colorado and Dinosaur Journey Museum will offer a variety of fun-fossil-filled activities. A coloring contest is being held for children ages 2-14. Coloring sheets can be picked up at the following locations, or they may also be found on our website at http://www.museumofwesternco.com/visit/dinosaur-journey/national-fossil-day/. [...]

To celebrate the second annual National Fossil Day the Museum of Western Colorado and Dinosaur Journey Museum will offer a variety of fun-fossil-filled activities. There will be special activities for kids of all ages on October 12 from 2:30 – 5:00 pm at Dinosaur Journey. The public will have the opportunity to speak with our staff [...]

Grand Junction, Colo. — Several recent paleontological discoveries at the Mygatt-Moore Quarry, located in the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area (NCA), may give paleontologists a new understanding of the appearance of dinosaurs living during the late Jurassic period and the environment where these animals lived and eventually perished.
Volunteers with the Museum of Western Colorado [...]

Dinosaur Days kicks off this year with our 2nd Annual Old Fossil Classic on July 29. The scramble starts at 8 am at Adobe Creek National Golf Course in Fruita. Go here for more information.
Thanks to Subaru for donating our Hole in One prize - a brand new Subaru Legacy sedan. Commercial courtesy of KREX [...]

In preparation for “The Summer of Tyrannosaurus rex” and the arrival of the largest known robotic dinosaur, crews remove current exhibits to make way for the big one coming to Fruita on May 25th. Rick Charlesworth, owner of Lower Valley Welding and Performance, used one of his truck mounted cranes to lift our Apatosaurus from [...]

We are long over due to update those who are interested in the progress of our large jacket that was pulled out this past summer from the Mygatt-Moore Quarry. Our volunteer, Dorothy, has been hard at work preparing the jacket and has uncovered all of the large rib that was contained in the jacket, along with [...]

Enthusiasm at Dinosaur Journey Museum over the first National Fossil Day in October was cut short by the arrival of Ruby Adelaide Foster. To the new papa, John Foster - our paleontologist, and new mama, ReBecca Hunt-Foster - our collections manager, waiting for Ruby’s arrival was a bit more exciting than Fossil Day.
Nevertheless, John was [...]