The Makoshika Dinosaur Museum was a private, non-profit regional museum located in

Glendive Glendive is a city in and the county seat of Dawson County, Montana, United States, and home to Dawson Community College. Glendive was established by the Northern Pacific Railway when they built the transcontinental railroad across the northern ...

, eastern

Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ...

, United States. It opened in 2004, and before its closure, attracted between 1,500 and 2,000 visitors each summer. It was housed in a building dating from the 1900s and presented

dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is t ...

casts/sculptures and

fossils A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ...

from around the world. It has since been reported closed. Before its closure, the Makoshika Dinosaur Museum was a part of the

Montana Dinosaur Trail The Montana Dinosaur Trail is a series of fourteen dinosaur-themed museums, state parks and other attractions in twelve communities located in the central and eastern regions of the state of Montana in the United States of America. The trail, a pla ...

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Makoshika Dinosaur Museum
Defunct museums in the United States Museums in Glendive, Montana Dinosaur museums in the United States Paleontology in Montana {{Montana-museum-stub