Get to know SUE in this immersive experience for visitors of all ages at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
SUE can't wait to eat, er, meet you.
Step into the world of SUE: The T. rex Experience to uncover the mysteries about the life of this fearsome fossil. SUE the T. rex is the most complete, best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered and is now at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science!
We had the opportunity to see this exciting new exhibit last week, and my kids really enjoyed it! The lifesize replica of SUE is HUGE, the kids were in awe! They also enjoyed the short light show with facts about the SUE fossils, the giant screens that showed what scientists think life looked like when SUE was alive, and the giant outline of the dig site they could walk on and explore. (Did you know SUE was named after the explorer and fossil collector, Sue Hendrickson, that found the massive fossil?)
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Come between two titans with full-scale casts of SUE and T. rex’s nemesis, Triceratops. Experience a unique multimedia show transporting you to the Cretaceous forest alongside SUE. Learn how the fossil was unearthed, and how scientists continue to make discoveries about SUE, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever discovered.
Use your senses to take in SUE’s world. Watch SUE tromp through the Late Cretaceous forest, feel the texture of dinosaur skin, and hear the subsonic rumble of a T. rex. See the fossils of animals, plants, and dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous period, and come face-to-face with a full-size, fleshed-out replication of a ferocious T. rex battling the duck-billed herbivore, Edmontosaurus.
SUE’s fossils are on permanent display at the Field Museum in Chicago, so the traveling exhibition gives you a chance to experience SUE through:
- An exact cast of SUE’s skeleton, measuring in at 40 feet from snout to tail and 13 feet tall at the hip.
- A full-size, fleshed-out replica of a T. rex preying on the duck-billed herbivore, Edmontosaurus.
- Floor-to-ceiling animations of SUE tromping through their world, encountering other animals, and occasionally letting loose an intimidating growl.
- Touchable bronze casts of SUE’s bones.
- A multimedia light show that highlights the details of SUE’s skeleton.
Please note that a timed ticket for Museum entry and a separate timed ticket for entry into SUE: The T. rex Experience is required. For more information and ticketing, visit dmns.org.
Local Discoveries on Display
Guests who experience the exhibition in Denver will also get to see more than 20 specimens from the collections of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, including:
- The femur and a vertebra of the only T. rex skeleton ever found in Colorado.
- Part of the Triceratops that was found at a construction site in Highlands Ranch, Colo., in 2019.
- The jaw from the Torosaurus found in Thornton, Colo., in 2017.
- The jaw of a mystery horned dinosaur collected from Leyden, Colo. in 1975.
- Rare skulls of armored and dome-headed dinosaurs never before displayed in the Museum.
- Crocodile, turtle, and mammal specimens discovered outside of Colorado Springs, Colo., from 2017-2019.
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