KID Sized!
Family Appropriate!
KIDDO Approved!
What's New in The Museum
New Fossil Acquisitions, artwork, dinosaur models, set design, and technology, means there's always something New with Traveling Dinos!
Add in the research, attention to detail, and the pure magic of the experience comes together for an awesome visit for your kids and families!
New for The 2026-2027 School Year
There's Always Something New to See in Traveling Dinos!
One thing is for sure, kids love pterosaurs! The Pterosaur table is one of the most loved exhibits in both The Full Traveling Dinos Museum, and The Sea Monster Adventure.
The Incredible New Full Sized, Exact Replica Skeleton is part of a three-year quest to bring this important Pterosaur to both Traveling Dinos and The Sea Monster Adventure.
The pterosaur was replicated by one of the top Paleontological Supply Labs in the country who supply major museums and universities around the world.
The Backstory
In 1828 Mary Anning (Now considered to be one of the important paleontologists of all time) would make a fantastic discovery in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. Mary had already had many stunning discoveries, the icythosaur, the plesiosaur, coprolite, and belemnite fossils, but this one was different.
She wasn’t even quite sure what it was when she found it.
Eventually Sir Richard Owen who coined the term "dinosaur" would name it Dimorphodon macronyx, a pterosaur from the Jurassic era.
We can't wait for your kids and families to experience the full size exact replica of the Dimorphodon macronyx, in it's fascinating walking wing pose.
Demi the Dimorphodon has landed in Traveling Dinos
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The Sea Monster Adventure and ready for your kids Amazing Museum Adventure!
Welcome Demi
A Kid/Family Pleasing Winner!
The "hands-on activities" Activity Center has become an exciting hub of the museum.
We continue to add and refine the Center as an important part of the museum and learning lab created for kids and their families to explore.
An Immersive Experience
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The Phil Wilson Murals
It has been our goal for some time to create not just an Immersive Experience for your kids and families with our museum visits, but an Immersive Ambiance as well. That’s quite an ambitious goal with a touring museum. We draw inspiration from the way Disney creates that with their parks. You completely forget the outside world when you are there.
The Van Gough Experience has also accomplished this with their pop ups and spectacular total immersion of the art.
Today, we come closer to our vision of this. The constantly growing Traveling Dinos Museum features Phil Wilson’s art which captures dinosaurs and nature as if they were photos taken in person.
Not only has the legendary artist drawn for Disney, and many of the top paleontologists to give the world their first look at an artist’s conception of new and standing dinosaur discoveries, we’re honored that Phil really digs our mission, and is now an enthusiastic part of our vision.
You may know Phil’s work from the Ranger Rick series of children’s magazines, and his work is seen in many other books on dinosaurs too. If you see a dinosaur in Ranger Rick, it’s almost certainly by Phil. Also pretty cool, he illustrated Golden Books featuring the characters from the beloved PBS series Between the Lions!
For Tom Petty fans, Phil and his animation company did the trippy animation for Tom’s Music Video for Runnin’ Down a Dream. (Recently remastered and on Youtube.)
Oh, and those awesome Disney Plates that your mom and grandma had from The Bradford Exchange, yep, Phil did those too!
We are delighted to feature commissioned and licensed works of Phil’s, many of which are exclusive to Traveling Dinos.
We can’t wait for your kids and families to see all the fantastic new murals in Traveling Dinos, Dino Squad, and The Sea Monster Adventure!
The Traveling Dinos Museum, The Sea Monster Exhibit and The Dino Squad Exhibit now feature four digital microscopes for the kids
to explore the coolest fossils ever!
The Phil Wilson Murals wow and make for fabulous photo ops.
Now Choose between the Full Traveling Dinos Museum and The Incredible and Economical New Traveling Exhibit Visits
New Dinosaur Scale Models and Museum Quality Figures are throughout the museum, kid sized and kid level.
Securely and even stylishly performing their very important job are the custom display stands made by Joey Hartley and Andy Thomason.
The Latest
A Two Year Old T. Rex Dinosaur Skeleton Comes to The Museum!
Art and Genius = A Sensational Traveling Dinos Exclusive!
I've really enjoyed getting to know and understand the genius who is Phil Wilson over the last few years. Legendary Disney Artist, and one of the most distinctive Paleo artists around, once you get to know Phil's art, you can recognize it instantly. Much like the art of Tommy DePaola, Eric Carle or Dr. Seuss, it has a richness and warmth that few others can capture. This Summer we licensed 2 more pieces of his work, for the museum, and then I had an idea. I first talked to Phil's art rep Cliff, and then called Phil. I asked him if he would consider painting a custom commission for us. He said absolutely! What resulted is stunning!
Phil paints in layers; first the landscape, then gets a fill for the ambiance as he adds lighting, then finally the animals go in, and what results is magical!
The mission was to create a diorama for Junior the T. Rex. Recent research has revealed that T. Rex traveled as a family, not unlike a lion's pride. Phil captured the family of caring mother, the youngsters, and a watchful dad. Now what was unusual was the size. He paints on small canvas and then has digital photos taken to enlarge for printing our murals for the museum. The art printed out at 20 feet wide which means it is a wide painting to start with, that created unique challenges for Phil and ultimately his photographer.
What resulted thrilled Phil and us! We can't wait for you to see this incredible art of Phil Wilson's The T. Rex Family in The Traveling Dinos Museum.
Brand New: Now There are Three Awesome Museum/Exhibit Options!
Choose from The Wow of The Full Traveling Dinos Museum Experience, and The New Touring Exhibits- Expedition: Dino Squad and, The Sea Monster Adventure Exhibit,
Stand Alone, Spin-off Touring Exhibits of Traveling Dinos!
If your kids dig prehistoric reptiles, sharks, cool weird real stuff, and learning about these remarkable animals, then this exhibit is perfect for your class, grade level, or school. Mission Explore: The Sea Monster Adventure captures that awe and magic as we share the real fossils, teeth, models, books, stories, and art of these amazing creatures that lived in the mysterious aquatic world that is the Ocean!
The Sea Monster Adventure Exhibit is a hit with kids and adults alike!
The Exhibit is a Smaller Unit created from Traveling Dinos, it is great for a class and/or a grade level, and perfect to include when studying :
An Ocean Unit
Sea Life
Prehistoric Life
Mysteries of the Ocean
or Because it’s just plain Cool!
Plus, it's more economical than the full museum, with half day, full day, and evening family options.
The Amazing New Fossils Recently Added to The Collection:
* The stunning personal discovery of a large hadrosaur skin section on a hadrosaur bone, making the piece one of the rarest in the collection.
•Ankylosaurus: Just added, a very rare vertebrae and a scute (one of the famous small boney armor plates) Many kids consider this their favorite dinosaur!
(For instance, “Bumpy" is an ankylosaurus in the hit Netflix series "Camp Cretaceous.")
• Lambeosaurus: a Large fragment of leg bone that really helps you understand how big some of the hadrosaurs were.
• Pachycephalosaurus: A very cool bump (osteoderm) from the bald headed, very bumpy herbivore, plus a pachy tooth!
•Diplodocus: An incredible neck rib/tendon
(The most famous diplodocus is "Dippy" at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh)
* CSI: A crazy cool hadrosaur rib bone fragment with the very distinctive predator tooth attack marks of Tyrannosaurus!
* Maiasaura: A tibia (lower leg) and vertebrae from the hadrosaur.
(Maiasaura egg nests were discovered by Jack Horner who the Dr. Alan Grant character is based on in Jurassic Park.)
• Ichthyosaurus: a fossilized flipper and vertebrae, of the prehistoric cousin of dolphins.
(Icthyosaurus was discovered by Mary Anning's brother Joseph on the Jurassic Coast of Lyme Regis, England. Mary herself would go on to be called "the greatest fossilist the world ever knew.
Plus, the amazing existing collection of real fossils which is Traveling Dinos.
Marks' love and advocacy for great books is a an important part of the museum. We continue to add to our extensive library of all books Dinosaur, and always have a great selection with the museum for kids to peruse.
Plus, many really cool New Museum Dinosaur models and figures, and some of the most incredible real fossil finds from around the world!
By the time we visit with you, there will probably be even more new finds in the Traveling Dinos Museum!
Contact Tami Today to Reserve your date to bring this fantastic In-house field trip enrichment to your kids at markdaniel@magicalstoryteller.com
Packing underway for the next
Traveling Dinos Visit.
Mad Science or Just Another Day in The Office?
Prep for The Newest Museum Pieces Underway
Curating, researching, displaying, and getting new, never before seen pieces ready for viewing are part of the journey on the way to the museum. Honestly, it's a lot of work, and yes, it really is fun!
In the photo you can see very rare Hadrosaurus skin on bone, a Rib bone from a long neck sauropod, an extremely rare vertebrae from Ankylosaurus, a gigantic Mosasaur tooth, the biggest dinosaur stomach stone (gastrolith) we've ever seen, beautiful polished coprolite (dinosaur poop), a finger and toe bone from the hadrosaur Maisauria, very rare Oviraptor egg shells, and jawbone fragments from Triceratops. Plus, new scientifically detailed museum figures, another new digital microscope, and the adorable trex puppet, Rexxie. Believe it or not, there is still more to be curated.
All of these incredible pieces work together to tell the story of the magnificent beasts and the stunning history that came before us!
It's a pretty cool day in the office after all!
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