See the Tully Monster and the Dryptgosaurus Dinosaur plus the duck-billed dinos of the Hadrosaurs group. They are just some of the creatures now on exhibit at the Lake County Forest Preserves’ Dunn Museum in Libertyville, IL
If you walk into the exhibit from the front admission desk you see a couple of samples tempting you to see more. Then you walk through the permanent exhibits on the way to “Dinosaurs. Fossils Exposed.”
However, if you turn into the corridor just past the desk you are in the temporary exhibition space for the dinos and fossils. You can then go on to the permanent exhibits and exit back at the desk.
Touching is permitted.\. Many of the exhibit’s bones are skeletal molds including a Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor. The exhibit is interactive.
BTW, Tully monster is small enough to miss if you walk by its rocky fossile too fast. When it existed it could be a foot long and look like a swimming sausage. The fossil rock was found in Lindenhurst in 1957 and has brachiopods, cephalopods and other ancient sea creatures.
Touching is permitted. The special exhibition is interactive. You can touch six full dinosaur skeletal molds including a Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor. For photos, stand next to a 6-foot Apatosaurus femur.
(Dinosaurs: Fossils Exposed was conceptualized by the Arkansas Discovery Network, The Preservation Foundation, the charitable partner of the Lake County Forest Preserves, provided support for the exhibition.)
This special exhibition is up through Jan. 15, 2024.
The Dunn Museum is at 1899 West Winchester Rd, Libertyville IL 60048. For more information call 847-968-3400.