Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum

On our last day in Vernal we decided to explore town a little bit and we found the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum (phew, that is a mouthful). It is seriously a great little museum. That has a lot of great informative exhibits and a lot of fun stuff for kids to do as well. It is donation based.

Diplodocus Skeleton Reproduction.

Under the statue.

Fossil lab.

Front of the statue.

We totally did things backwards and started at the gift shop, and then had to carry our souvenirs through the rest of the museum. But whatever,I am pleased with what I found and they also referred us to the most amazing fossil shop in town, Fullbright Studios.

Utah Raptor model.

The diplodocus from above. Also, the lobby floor is a map of the local area.

There are some reproduction petroglyphs.

And some incredible fossils! I don’t think I have ever seen a stingray (or the sign says fresh water ray) before, so cool!

Cool skull cast.

Fluorescent minerals.

In the dark

We did the Uintah Fossil Journey backwards. I love the various dinosaur reproductions they have.

More fossils.

Utah raptor.

Foot prints and fossils.

I forget what these things are.

Oh right. Uintaheres.

In fossil form.

More fossils.

Turtle shell and leaf fossils.

Various skulls.

Stegosaurus model.

Haplocanthosaurus… not familiar with that one.

Allosaurus.

Out in the garden they have a quite a few cool statues.

Cool statues.

The pond has 2 of the 4 rare fish species in the area.

Park across the street has some fun dinosaurs as well.

This was a fun little museum. The staff were very friendly, but not too abrasive *cough* Dinosaur Discover Museum at Johnson Farm *cough* There were a lot of cool things to look at and I really like how the museum was setup. It was really cool to descend backwards in time through the layers of stone. The garden was really pretty and I liked the dinosaur statues. Definitely recommend stopping by and checking it out if you have time.