Dinosaur Hall

There are three American museums whose dinosaur collections especially come to mind when revisiting the 19th - 20th century history of fossilized bone excavation in the western parts of the country. They are the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. Thank you Andrew Carnegie for making Western Pennsylvania a member of this distinguished trio. Dinosaur Hall is at the very pinnacle of displays within our own Carnegie Museum, as well as being so worldwide. For the umpteenth time, we took visitors there during the Thanksgiving holiday. So did many other folks, because there was a crowd, in proper awe as is always the case. There is so much there, in such detail, and at such s…