31 Years Ago... MWC volunteers Dorothy Fredette & Pete Mygatt thought they were digging different bones at Mygatt-Moore Q. But they'd actually found two ends of a HUGE Apatosaurus sacrum! Today, the sacrum is on display in the exhibit hall. #dinosaurs #40YearsDigging #BLMPaleo

Walk in the Footsteps of Dinosaurs! Register Online at loom.ly/SF9w1SE Travel with the Museums of Western Colorado Trips & Tours Program and explore the dinosaur tracks of Moab with real paleontologists as your guides! #TripsTours #MuseumTrip #Adventure #dinosaurs

Another #WhatsItWednesday! Can you identify this item from the #museum collection? HINT: It has to do with the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad 🚂🛤️ #museumcollection #identify #trains #history #grandvalley #localhistory

A new kind of #WhatsItWednesday! Can you guess what decade this dress is from? Share below! #whatsitwednesday #dress #textiles #history #museumcollections #dressbydecade #grandvalley

Happy #FashionFriday! We are head-over-heels in love with this watermelon dress from 1965 😍🍉 Would you wear this one in-a-MELON fit this summer? #summerfashion #vintage #summervibes #sayyestothedress #muse

Seven Years Ago Today... CMU student Stephanie found something wonderful & rare! Mygatt-Moore is a quarry full of gigantic dinosaur bones, but Stephanie instead found a tiny fragment of a jaw with five teeth from a lizard-relative called a sphenodontian. #40YearsDigging #BLMPaleo

Another week, another #WhatsItWednesday! The #MuseumsofWesternColorado took in this artifact near the end of last year and we have all been very excited to have such a unique piece in our collection! Can you guess what it might be? #history #artifact #grandvalley #museum

Scenic Jeep Tour of Ouray's Wildflowers & Waterfalls! Register Online at loom.ly/PBYBF1A Join Museums of Western Colorado Trips & Tours Program and explore beautiful Yankee Boy Basin in a guided jeep adventure. #TripsTours #MuseumTrip #Adventure

Julia McHugh, our Director of Paleontology, just shared the inside scoop with Colorado Public Radio on the longest dinosaur track ever uncovered in Colorado! loom.ly/XinlMx4 #DinosaurDiscovery #OurayCO #MuseumsofWesternColorado #JuliaMcHugh #PrehistoricFind

Eight Years Ago Today... 8 year old Lachlan made the discovery of a lifetime at Mygatt-Moore Q, an intact Apatosaurus skull & neck! This is the 4th complete Apato skull ever found. Here, he stands beside the skull in the Paleo Lab. #dinosaurs #40YearsDigging #BLMPaleo