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Mesalands Dinosaur Museum
Mesalands Dinosaur Museum is a museum in Tucumcari, NM. Cost: under $25.
222 E Laughlin Ave · Tucumcari, NM
Why you should go…
The Mesalands Community College Dinosaur Museum and Natural Sciences Laboratory is located on old Route 66 in Tucumcari, New Mexico. It displays genuine fossils collected by the college's paleontology students alongside life-sized bronze dinosaur sculptures cast through the college's Fine Arts Bronze program, including a 40-foot Torvosaurus skeleton. Visitors can also watch staff and students clean fossil specimens in the museum's working preparation lab. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday.
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