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What are some of the best dinosaur museums in the US?

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1. Come see these people someday: http://www.museumoftheearth.org/ I picked them because they are local.
2. the Field Museum in Chicago
3. Museum of Natural History in NYC has some great skeletons and fossils...quite amazing actually... (P.S.: If you think you know it from Night at the Museum...you don't. The building they used wasn't the real MoNH, and the rooms weren't modeled on the real ones)
4. Okay, I know this isn;t in the US. But if you are interested in Dinosaurs, then there is no better place than Drumheller Alberta. It has one of the largest concentrations of dinosaurs in the world and arguably the best dinosaur museum in the world. The Royal Tyrrel Museum The landscape is AMAZING!!!Check out some of my pictures here... http://flickr.com/photos/mckinley2006/sets/72157594262142960/
5. Put the Carnegie in Pittsburgh on your list. It's just been remodeled and most of the skeletons have been remounted. They've just completed a couple year refurbishment of the Hall of Dinosaurs. In the early 1900's, while Andrew Carnegie was passing out tons of money to libraries and museums, the Carnegie spent enormous amounts for the time to find and secure some of the best specimens then available. They've kept it up over the last century.
6. The American Museum of Natural History in New York City has a large room devoted just to Jurassic dinosaurs and another large room devoted just to Cretaceous dinosaurs. The dinosaur Museum in Vernal, Utah has fantastic Triassic and Jurassic specimens and some nice Cretaceous as well, such as a great Triceratops.. The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington DC has great Cretaceous fossils and a selection from other eras. The Carnegie in Pittsburgh and the Peabody Museum at Yale University have many of the original finds of the late 1800s and early 1900s that pushed American paleontology to the forefront in the world. The Field in Chicago has Sue, the largest fossil T. rex. But my favorite is the Fernbank in Atlanta, GA, with the largest fossil predator (Gigantosaurus--even larger than T. rex) and Argentinosaurus, a Titanosaur, the largest complete dino fossil find of anywhere in the world.