The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (RTMP, and often referred to as the Royal Tyrrell Museum) is a palaeontology museum and research facility in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. The museum was named in honour of Joseph Burr Tyrrell, and is situated within a 12,500-square-metre-building (135,000 sq ft) designed by BCW Architects at Midland Provincial Park.
The RTMP is a popular Canadian tourist attraction. It is a leading centre of palaeontological research which has more than 130,000 fossils, mostly of dinosaurs. It is about 141.8 Km from Calgary.
The Badlands yield some spectacular fossils. Some are located deep within the layers of rock and some are exposed on the surface. This region is vastly different than it was 71-72 million years ago. During the Late Cretaceous, this area was covered by rivers, swamps, marshes and forested flood plains, extending east to a shallow sea.
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