Museum of the Rockies & Bozeman Downtown

The Museum of the Rockies on the Montana State University campus contains the most significant paleontological collection in the world: Jack Horner's T. rex collection (more T. rex specimens than any institution on Earth), the largest mounted T. rex in the world, a substantial collection of Maiasaura — the first dinosaur shown conclusively to have raised its young in nests, discovered by Horner on the Two Medicine Formation in 1978 — and the complete fossil record of a Cretaceous ecosystem that covered what is now Montana. The museum's Siebel Dinosaur Complex is the gold standard for dinosaur museum exhibitions; the human history galleries cover the full arc of Montana settlement from Paleo-Indian cultures through the ranching era. The downtown Bozeman arts and restaurant district, which has undergone significant renovation since MSU's expansion, fills the afternoon.