Pittsburgh Arts & Entertainment Winter 2013 | Page 12

Museums The carnegie Musesum of Natural science A million years ago, dinosaurs stilled roamed the Earth, and the Tyrannosaurus-Rex was at the top of the food chain and other prehistoric creatures like the Diplodocus carnegii and Apatosaurus louisae were eye-level with two-story buildings and as big as a Blue Whale. This period is known as the Mesozoic Era. These great reptiles can be found, in Carnegie Museums of Natural Science in the “Dinosaurs in Their Time” Exhibit. “Dinosaurs in Their Time” Exhibit contains one of the world’s largest collections of Jurassic dinosaurs and is the third largest exhibit to have mounted dinosaurs displayed in the United States. Founded in 1896 by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, the museum now hosts over 21 million specimens and more than ten thousand of them are on display at one time in the 20 galleries. The musesum has been adding to its collection since 1899. It’s most recent edition is an oviraptorsaur species in 1998. It has yet to be given a name. “Dippy” the Dinosaur The museum gained attention in 1899, when scientists who worked for the Carnegie Museum of Natural Science unearthed Diplodocus carnegii in Wyoming, which would affectionately be called “Dippy.” Today, there is a life-size model of “Dippy” in front of the museum and occasionally wears a scarf in the winter. The model was created in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the expedition in 1999, funded by Andrew Carnegie, which led to the discovery “Dippy.” There copies of “Dippy” that can be found across the world. Where Cargnie Musesum of Natural Scicences dinosaurs are from MONTANA Tyrannosaurus rex CANADA Corythosaurus casuarius MONGOLIA Edmontosaurus regalis Protoceratops andrewsii Triceratops brevicornus UTAH SOUTH DAKOTA Allosaurus fragilis Apatosaurus louisae Oviraptorosaur Camarasaurus Camptosaurus aphanoecetes Dryosaurus altus WYOMING Diplodocus carnegii Stegosaurus ungulatus 11