Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum

The Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum is a private dinosaur museum located in Glendive, Montana. Otis Kline  founded the museum, which is now owned by the non-profit organisation Advancing Creation Truth. The Creation Museum promotes the idea that dinosaurs and humans coexisted, including the idea that dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark. The facility, which was mostly built by volunteers between 2005 and 2009, is worth about $4 million without the exhibits.

Description and history

The facility bills itself as Montana's second largest "dinosaur museum," as well as the state's only creationist museum . Since its inception in 2009, the museum has drawn criticism from the paleontological community. The scientists expressed concern that Glendive is "the polar opposite of a science museum," despite the fact that Montana is a well-known fossil discovery site. Paleontologists used the following examples to explain their position: the discovery of soft tissue remains in fossils, which creationists have used as evidence for recent creation despite radiometric dating; the Hell Creek Formation's headwaters, a site near Glendive formed by ancient rivers and flood plains on the coast of an inland seaway, an area  an area that has undergone extensive field surveys but has revealed no evidence of catastrophic flooding during its formation  When it was revealed that local public schools were taking students on field trips to the museum in 2015, it sparked outrage. Despite the fact that the students were only led through the dinosaur exhibits and were not taught about religious topics.

Admission

GENERAL (13+): $8.00 / SENIORS (60+): $7.00 / CHILDREN (3-12): $7.00 / CHILDREN 2 AND UP: FREE