Prehistoric Museum
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The Prehistoric Museum is your gateway to the archaeology and paleontology of Utah! AAM accredited museum in Price, UT. Featured on #WalkingWithDinosaurs #WWD2025
The Prehistoric Museum would like to invite you to submit work to the 2025 Castle Country Community Art Show, in our Special Exhibits Gallery, Nov 14, 2025 - March 15, 2026. We will be accepting your work November 6-9, 2025, during regular museum hours.
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The Prehistoric Museum would like to invite you to submit work to the 2025 Castle Country Community Art Show, in our Special Exhibits Gallery, Nov 14, 2025 - March 15, 2026. We will be accepting your work November 6-9, 2025, during regular museum hours.
A Gastonia-themed Fossil Fest comes to the Prehistoric Museum November 15!
FREE admission all day (9 am - 7 pm)
Museum collections tours (10 am & 1 pm)
Activities/crafts for all ages (11 am - 2 pm)
Up-close looks at the stars of Walking With Dinosaurs: Gastonia and Utahraptor (11 am - 2 pm)
FREE admission all day (9 am - 7 pm)
Museum collections tours (10 am & 1 pm)
Activities/crafts for all ages (11 am - 2 pm)
Up-close looks at the stars of Walking With Dinosaurs: Gastonia and Utahraptor (11 am - 2 pm)
October 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
A Gastonia-themed Fossil Fest comes to the Prehistoric Museum November 15!
FREE admission all day (9 am - 7 pm)
Museum collections tours (10 am & 1 pm)
Activities/crafts for all ages (11 am - 2 pm)
Up-close looks at the stars of Walking With Dinosaurs: Gastonia and Utahraptor (11 am - 2 pm)
FREE admission all day (9 am - 7 pm)
Museum collections tours (10 am & 1 pm)
Activities/crafts for all ages (11 am - 2 pm)
Up-close looks at the stars of Walking With Dinosaurs: Gastonia and Utahraptor (11 am - 2 pm)
Join us on Nov 11 at 7:30 PM for a FREE screening of Walking with Dinosaurs at the King Koal Theatre in Price, UT!
Follow the Prehistoric Museum & our excavation of Gastonia & raptor fossils. Hang out afterwards for a Q&A w/ our curator, Dr. Joshua Lively, and see fossils excavated during filming.
Follow the Prehistoric Museum & our excavation of Gastonia & raptor fossils. Hang out afterwards for a Q&A w/ our curator, Dr. Joshua Lively, and see fossils excavated during filming.
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Join us on Nov 11 at 7:30 PM for a FREE screening of Walking with Dinosaurs at the King Koal Theatre in Price, UT!
Follow the Prehistoric Museum & our excavation of Gastonia & raptor fossils. Hang out afterwards for a Q&A w/ our curator, Dr. Joshua Lively, and see fossils excavated during filming.
Follow the Prehistoric Museum & our excavation of Gastonia & raptor fossils. Hang out afterwards for a Q&A w/ our curator, Dr. Joshua Lively, and see fossils excavated during filming.
We are excited to partner with the Price City Youth Council as part of the 3rd Annual Main Street Mash! There will be fun activities across downtown Price, including free admission to the Museum. #Prehistoric #Utah
October 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
We are excited to partner with the Price City Youth Council as part of the 3rd Annual Main Street Mash! There will be fun activities across downtown Price, including free admission to the Museum. #Prehistoric #Utah
Don't miss this great event happening on campus next week! Larry Martin has done a great job growing the Castle Valley Orchestra from students and community members. Come join them and the Concert and Chamber Choirs for a night of movie soundtrack favorites and more! #USUEastern
September 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Don't miss this great event happening on campus next week! Larry Martin has done a great job growing the Castle Valley Orchestra from students and community members. Come join them and the Concert and Chamber Choirs for a night of movie soundtrack favorites and more! #USUEastern
Check out this cool event happening outside the museum tomorrow evening! We will also be offering free admission to the museum during the event.
September 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Check out this cool event happening outside the museum tomorrow evening! We will also be offering free admission to the museum during the event.
Thanks to a generous donation from Mike Leschin and the expertise of Go Wash Utah, the surface has been restored to its former glory! #FossilFriday
August 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Thanks to a generous donation from Mike Leschin and the expertise of Go Wash Utah, the surface has been restored to its former glory! #FossilFriday
A story of vandalism with a happy ending for #FossilFriday
A couple of years ago, a sandstone boulder preserving dinosaur tracks in Price Canyon was graffitied. This boulder had fallen out of a nearby cliff and was placed at a popular pullout in the canyon by Utah DOT prior to the vandalism.
A couple of years ago, a sandstone boulder preserving dinosaur tracks in Price Canyon was graffitied. This boulder had fallen out of a nearby cliff and was placed at a popular pullout in the canyon by Utah DOT prior to the vandalism.
August 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A story of vandalism with a happy ending for #FossilFriday
A couple of years ago, a sandstone boulder preserving dinosaur tracks in Price Canyon was graffitied. This boulder had fallen out of a nearby cliff and was placed at a popular pullout in the canyon by Utah DOT prior to the vandalism.
A couple of years ago, a sandstone boulder preserving dinosaur tracks in Price Canyon was graffitied. This boulder had fallen out of a nearby cliff and was placed at a popular pullout in the canyon by Utah DOT prior to the vandalism.
We’re less than 24 hours away from the premiere of our episode of #WalkingWithDinosaurs!
Our excavations of Gastonia and Utahraptor will air Tuesday night at 7 pm on PBS Utah. Check your local listings for show times on your PBS station.
#WWD25
Our excavations of Gastonia and Utahraptor will air Tuesday night at 7 pm on PBS Utah. Check your local listings for show times on your PBS station.
#WWD25
June 17, 2025 at 2:15 AM
We’re less than 24 hours away from the premiere of our episode of #WalkingWithDinosaurs!
Our excavations of Gastonia and Utahraptor will air Tuesday night at 7 pm on PBS Utah. Check your local listings for show times on your PBS station.
#WWD25
Our excavations of Gastonia and Utahraptor will air Tuesday night at 7 pm on PBS Utah. Check your local listings for show times on your PBS station.
#WWD25
Join us this coming weekend for this great event! Learn more about the role of the Buffalo Soldiers here in Utah! Registration is required. Register at the link below.
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June 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Join us this coming weekend for this great event! Learn more about the role of the Buffalo Soldiers here in Utah! Registration is required. Register at the link below.
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Because this track was made in the boundary between the Yellow Cat & Poison Strip members of the Cedar Mountain Formation, likely candidates include “iguanadontians” like Iguanacolossus, Hippodraco, and Planicoxa.
You can watch us collect this track and more fossils on @pbs.org in two weeks! 2/2
You can watch us collect this track and more fossils on @pbs.org in two weeks! 2/2
June 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Because this track was made in the boundary between the Yellow Cat & Poison Strip members of the Cedar Mountain Formation, likely candidates include “iguanadontians” like Iguanacolossus, Hippodraco, and Planicoxa.
You can watch us collect this track and more fossils on @pbs.org in two weeks! 2/2
You can watch us collect this track and more fossils on @pbs.org in two weeks! 2/2
For International #DinosaurDay, here is a large ornithopod track we collected during filming of Walking With Dinosaurs!
Though we can’t tell the species of dinosaur that made a given footprint, we know it was an ornithopod because of its three rounded toes.
#WalkingWithDinosaurs #WWD2025
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Though we can’t tell the species of dinosaur that made a given footprint, we know it was an ornithopod because of its three rounded toes.
#WalkingWithDinosaurs #WWD2025
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June 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
For International #DinosaurDay, here is a large ornithopod track we collected during filming of Walking With Dinosaurs!
Though we can’t tell the species of dinosaur that made a given footprint, we know it was an ornithopod because of its three rounded toes.
#WalkingWithDinosaurs #WWD2025
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Though we can’t tell the species of dinosaur that made a given footprint, we know it was an ornithopod because of its three rounded toes.
#WalkingWithDinosaurs #WWD2025
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We are excited to partner with the State Historic Preservation Office, Sema Hadithi, and Price City to kick off the Buffalo Soldier Heritage Trail. Register at the link below.
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May 31, 2025 at 1:48 AM
We are excited to partner with the State Historic Preservation Office, Sema Hadithi, and Price City to kick off the Buffalo Soldier Heritage Trail. Register at the link below.
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Our #dinosaurs and our #paleontologists from the Prehistoric Museum at USU Eastern will take center stage for episode 3 of Walking With Dinosaurs, premiering on PBS June 16-18.
Check us out on the international stage and see the real thing in Price, #Utah!
Check us out on the international stage and see the real thing in Price, #Utah!
May 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Our #dinosaurs and our #paleontologists from the Prehistoric Museum at USU Eastern will take center stage for episode 3 of Walking With Dinosaurs, premiering on PBS June 16-18.
Check us out on the international stage and see the real thing in Price, #Utah!
Check us out on the international stage and see the real thing in Price, #Utah!
May 24, 2025 at 5:42 AM
We followed up that trip with an expedition to the Cretaceous Neslen Formation in the Book Cliffs outside of Green River. The main focus was geology, giving a number of our @ustatescience.bsky.social #geology students the opportunity to practice the skill of measuring geologic section.
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May 24, 2025 at 5:42 AM
We followed up that trip with an expedition to the Cretaceous Neslen Formation in the Book Cliffs outside of Green River. The main focus was geology, giving a number of our @ustatescience.bsky.social #geology students the opportunity to practice the skill of measuring geologic section.
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Here’s a late #FossilFriday thread of our paleo fieldwork over the last month!
In April we prospected the Cretaceous Kaiparowits & Wahweap formations of Grand Staircase Escalante Natl Mon. We found fossils big and small, including #dinosaurs, crocs, turtles, and even a couple of bird bones!
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In April we prospected the Cretaceous Kaiparowits & Wahweap formations of Grand Staircase Escalante Natl Mon. We found fossils big and small, including #dinosaurs, crocs, turtles, and even a couple of bird bones!
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May 24, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Here’s a late #FossilFriday thread of our paleo fieldwork over the last month!
In April we prospected the Cretaceous Kaiparowits & Wahweap formations of Grand Staircase Escalante Natl Mon. We found fossils big and small, including #dinosaurs, crocs, turtles, and even a couple of bird bones!
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In April we prospected the Cretaceous Kaiparowits & Wahweap formations of Grand Staircase Escalante Natl Mon. We found fossils big and small, including #dinosaurs, crocs, turtles, and even a couple of bird bones!
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Do you want to learn more about the #UtahMammoth? You can always stop by the museum to visit the Huntington Mammoth or, if you are not in the area, read more about it here. #PrehistoricUtah #Utah www.sltrib.com/sports/utah-...
May 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Do you want to learn more about the #UtahMammoth? You can always stop by the museum to visit the Huntington Mammoth or, if you are not in the area, read more about it here. #PrehistoricUtah #Utah www.sltrib.com/sports/utah-...
The Prehistoric Museum invites everyone to come to our annual Fremont Fest, May 10th! The museum will offer FREE ADMISSION ALL DAY with kid's activities from 12pm-3pm. #Utah #Prehistoric #Archaeology
April 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The Prehistoric Museum invites everyone to come to our annual Fremont Fest, May 10th! The museum will offer FREE ADMISSION ALL DAY with kid's activities from 12pm-3pm. #Utah #Prehistoric #Archaeology
We are excited for the opening of our new special exhibit, Mutualism: Crucial Relationships on the Colorado Plateau by fiber artist Anna Evans. We would love to see you at the reception this Saturday, April 12th.
April 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We are excited for the opening of our new special exhibit, Mutualism: Crucial Relationships on the Colorado Plateau by fiber artist Anna Evans. We would love to see you at the reception this Saturday, April 12th.
We are excited for the culmination of the From Bookcliffs to Blanding lecture series, arranged by the USU Eastern LLC! Join Prof. Jason Olsen and renowned author Terry Tempest Williams this coming Monday! You can register with the QR code on the image.
April 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
We are excited for the culmination of the From Bookcliffs to Blanding lecture series, arranged by the USU Eastern LLC! Join Prof. Jason Olsen and renowned author Terry Tempest Williams this coming Monday! You can register with the QR code on the image.
Going live this afternoon from the St George Dinosaur Discovery Site excavation. Follow along here: m.twitch.tv/prehistoricm...
Here’s an awesome fish fossil discovered during the dig yesterday. We’ll probably get it out of the ground later today!
Here’s an awesome fish fossil discovered during the dig yesterday. We’ll probably get it out of the ground later today!
March 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Going live this afternoon from the St George Dinosaur Discovery Site excavation. Follow along here: m.twitch.tv/prehistoricm...
Here’s an awesome fish fossil discovered during the dig yesterday. We’ll probably get it out of the ground later today!
Here’s an awesome fish fossil discovered during the dig yesterday. We’ll probably get it out of the ground later today!
Going live from the St George Dinosaur Discovery Site excavation within the hour! Follow along here: m.twitch.tv/prehistoricm...
Here’s a track found after lunch in the rubble pile 👀
Here’s a track found after lunch in the rubble pile 👀
March 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Going live from the St George Dinosaur Discovery Site excavation within the hour! Follow along here: m.twitch.tv/prehistoricm...
Here’s a track found after lunch in the rubble pile 👀
Here’s a track found after lunch in the rubble pile 👀
First dinosaur tooth of the day here on #FossilFriday !!!
Live on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/prehistoricm...
Live on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/prehistoricm...
March 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
First dinosaur tooth of the day here on #FossilFriday !!!
Live on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/prehistoricm...
Live on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/prehistoricm...