Dinosaurs of B.C. initially debuted at the Royal BC Museum in 2023 where it met with an overwhelmingly positive public response. Photo courtesy Courtenay Museum

See Dinosaurs of B.C. exhibition at the Courtenay and District Museum

October 17, 2024 // by Marc Kitteringham

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Discover the Dinosaurs of B.C. in a new Royal BC Museum travelling exhibition, at the Courtenay and District Museum through Feb. 1, 2025.

Produced by the Royal BC Museum, Dinosaurs of B.C. debuted at the provincial museum in Victoria in 2023, where it met with an overwhelmingly positive response.

“Dig into prehistoric British Columbia and get up close and personal with ‘Buster,’ the Iron Lizard of the Sustut River, and the other dinosaurs that once roamed the province’s highest peaks, densest forests and most remote river basins,” the museum says of the exhibition. “Through research done by the Royal BC Museum’s paleontology team, we’re learning just how many ancient creatures once called these lands home.”

Guests can follow the footsteps of tyrannosaurs and ankylosaurs, see preserved marine fossils, and meet the B.C.-born ferrisaurus named Buster.

“The Courtenay and District Museum team is thrilled to welcome the Dinosaurs of B.C. exhibit from the Royal BC Museum, and to invite the public to discover ‘Buster’ and other dinosaurs that reflect the diversity of British Columbia’s ancient life,” says Deborah Griffiths, Executive Director at the Courtenay Museum.

“This, along with the Courtenay and District Museum’s palaeontological holdings, including the 80-million-year-old elasmosaur, now British Columbia’s official fossil emblem, will give visitors a rare and exciting experience in exploring B.C.’s vast fossil record.”

The Courtenay and District Museum is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and admission is by donation. Find the museum in downtown Courtenay at 207 4^th St. Learn more at courtenaymuseum.ca

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