As a 15 year old boy, John Goddard, world famous adventurer (and good friend of Museum of Western Colorado’s Executive Director, Mike Perry), sat down one rainy day and drew up “My Life List” - a list of 127 goals he wished to experience or achieve in his [...]
Fruitadens, the Smallest Plant Eating Dinosaur in the World!
A small but excited crowd was given the pleasure of being the first to see Fruitadens today at Dinosaur Journey.
In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, Fruitadens is the latest sensation in the Grand Valley. Discovered in 1976 by George Callison, Fruitadens is the smallest plant [...]
This exhibit features a life-size, fleshed-out reconstruction of Fruitadens, one of the smallest adult dinosaurs in the world, found right here in the Grand Valley in 1976 by paleontologist (and Grand Junction resident) George Callison. Tiny adult dinosaurs are rare, and even more rare are plant-eating dinosaurs that weighed less than a house cat. Among [...]
If you didn’t get a chance to see the exhibit yet, check out the article with photos here that was in the January 22nd Grand Junction Free Press. Then come in to the Museum of the West and see the whole exhibit!
The newest exhibit at the Museum of the West opened Friday, January 15. Three hundred people attended the opening of Distant Cities in the Mist: The Search for Lost Kingdoms. Native American singer Tim Trujillo provided entertainment to the crowd.
Museum of West exhibit focuses on explorers of Grand Valley
Explorers found their way to the Grand Valley for hundreds of years, and for the most part, they were believed to have passed through on their way to someplace else.
More and more, though, the Grand Valley, and the imposing Grand Mesa overlooking it, appears to have [...]
NBC news has a short video on the renovations at Dinosaur Journey thanks to a grant from the Lions Club. Watch it here.
David Bailey, Curator of History, received a $3000 grant from the Inge Foundation in Texas to assist in the construction of a new exhibit at the Museum of the West entitled “Distant Cities in the Mist” that will open on November 12, 2009. The exhibit chronicles the efforts of Spanish and possible Mesoamerican explorers [...]
A call to help with Spring Cleaning at Dinosaur Journey on Friday, February 27 brought in 18 people. Painting, dusting, washing, vacuuming, and more dusting . . . 18 hard-working and, by the end of the day, very tired people.
Next up, a complete redo of the popular Utahraptor. The 10 year-old computer for the robotic dinosaur has been replaced bringing [...]