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This 13,400 sq. ft. museum contains 11 full-scale dinosaurs in the museum displayed in a Triassic-Cretaceous time continuum and 3 full-scale dinosaurs outside. The exhibit includes a real Triceratops skeleton and one of the best Triceratops skulls ever found.
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New Exhibits for 2009
The latest Indiana Jones movie, "The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" has made crystal skulls very popular. The legend of skulls however extends much farther back in time from the latest movie; the Greeks made reference to the crystal skulls of Atlantis; skull carvings abound in the Mayan civilization and skulls are also an important part of the Native American culture. Thirty skulls will be on display ranging in size from 2 inches in length to life-size.
The unique, quality stones on display have been hand picked and professionally wire wrapped by artist Alice League, museum co-founder and lst place winner of an international juried art show. Some of the minerals and jewelry available for viewing include Opal (Australia), Rutilated Quartz (Brazil), Ammolite (Canada) and Ellensburg blue Agate, a one of a kind necklace created from the world’s third rarest colored stone from the Washington State.
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The Dakota Dinosaur Museum is featuring two new temporary exhibits in 2009. The first exhibit displays minerals and crystals from all over the world carved into the shape of human skulls. 
The museum's second new exhibit displays original natural minerals along side their carved, polished, and wire-wrapped finished jewelry pieces. Many of these rare and valuable minerals are only found in one location in the world in remote, hard to reach localities. They must be retrieved and transported around the world where they are cut and polished. Later the specimens are shipped to the U.S. where they may pass through the hands of wholesalers, retailers, collectors and artists before arriving at the museum to be displayed. 
