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Nov 5, 2019 · T he Beneski Museum of Natural History houses the most extensive collection of fossil dinosaur tracks in the world. Specimens on exhibit and in storage show a vast array of track morphologies (shapes).
The Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College, is located on the campus of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. It showcases fossils and minerals collected locally and abroad, many by past and present students and professors.
The Beneski Museum of Natural History houses the most extensive collection of fossil dinosaur tracks in the world. Specimens on exhibit and in storage show a vast array of track morphologies (shapes).
Amherst College (/ ˈ æ m ər s t / ⓘ AM-ərst) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts.
Dramatic displays of fossil skeletons, from fish to dinosaurs to Ice Age megafauna; An extraordinary collection of dinosaur footprints; Geological specimens and immersive exhibits that tell the history of the local landscape through geologic time, including when dinosaurs inhabited the area
The Beneski Museum of Natural History (BMNH) is located in the Beneski Earth Sciences Building on the Amherst College campus. This building holds collections that can help us learn about the world around us. Inside you can see dinosaur fossils, minerals, and maybe even a rock from space.
Today, Edward Hitchcock’s ichnological collection of 1,700 slabs of dinosaur footprints, insect trails, burrows, ripple marks, and mud cracks attracts researchers from all over the world as well as museum-going students and the general public.
