He’s stood outside since 1999, tail high, greeting Forbes Avenue: Dippy the Diplodocus, the life-size statue that has become Pittsburgh’s friendliest landmark. But the real giants wait inside Carnegie Museum of Natural History, where Dinosaurs in Their Time fills soaring halls with one of the world’s great dinosaur collections.
This is no static row of skeletons. The exhibition poses its dinosaurs as science now understands them — a T. rex lunging at a Triceratops, sauropods striding in herds, feathered raptors mid-hunt — in lush environments backed by decades of Carnegie paleontology. The museum’s collection began with Dippy himself, whose original skeleton (discovered in Wyoming in 1899) helped launch America’s dinosaur craze.
Dinosaurs in Their Time is at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue in Oakland — one admission also covers the Museum of Art. The museum’s PaleoLab lets visitors watch scientists prepare real fossils, so check what’s on the table.
