Museum of World Treasures

We went to the Museum of World Treasures this afternoon because we had heard they had some dinosaur bones and we wanted to go check them out with Jayden. Come to find out, the dinosaur display here is the #1 dinosaur display in the world, because it is the only one with an almost complete (60-70%) skeleton of a T-Rex and a Daspletosaurus. Ivan, the T-Rex, is the 3rd most complete skeleton of a T-Rex in the world, and the first one to be on display with all it’s vertebrae being actual fossils. Who knew? Another reason to come visit me in Wichita! So I can show you Ivan! :)

There was lots of other things in the museum as well, like 2 mummies, lots of world war stuff, lots of American History stuff, 42 presidential signatures, but as most museums go, you can hardly take pictures anywhere, and really the only thing we (we being Jayden and his bossy self) were interested in were the dinosaurs, so somehow we kept coming back to that display.

Here is the Daspletosaurus killing another dinosaur



Here is Ivan and the Daspletosaurus - the buddy dinos who make Wichita more than just a dot on the map! (Can I get a woot woot?!?)



Here is the skull of a Triceratops



Jayden managed to find the video screen playing a BBC show about dinosaurs.



It was a tad graphic, and Jayden was bothered for the rest of the day about watching an Ornitholestes eat a baby Diplodocus right after it had hatched out of it’s egg. I mean, who wouldn’t be??? At least we stuck around long enough so Jayden could see all the dead Diplodocus’s brothers and sisters hatch out and run for cover in the bushes, so the “bad little meat eater” couldn’t get them.
Are you wondering how I know the name of all these dinosaurs? I read dinosaur books daily people, over, and over, and over.

Here is a concerned Jayden.



Good thing I steered him clear of the Civil War video that was playing, because as we walked by and I hurried Jayden on, I watched some confederate soldiers shoot some farmer and then hold his family hostage as he burned their house down. Glad I didn’t have to explain that one!

Here is a Xiphectinus Fish





And finally, a view of Ivan the Terrible T-Rex from the 2nd floor!