Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio, Paleontology museum in Trelew, Argentina.
The Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio is a natural history museum in Trelew, in the Chubut Province of Argentina, devoted entirely to fossils from Patagonia. It has several exhibition halls where original specimens and full skeletal reconstructions are arranged to show how life on Earth evolved over time.
The museum opened in 1990 and quickly became one of the leading centers for paleontological research in South America. It takes its name from Egidio Feruglio, whose fieldwork across Patagonia in the early 20th century laid the groundwork for the fossil discoveries that followed.
The museum is named after Egidio Feruglio, a geologist who worked in Patagonia in the early 20th century. Through glass windows, visitors can watch scientists in the fossil preparation laboratories as they clean and study bones recovered from the field.
The museum sits on Fontana Avenue in central Trelew and is easy to reach on foot from the town center. A full visit takes several hours, so it is worth arriving early in the day to have enough time for all the halls and the outdoor fossil area.
In 2014, researchers from this museum identified the Patagotitan mayorum, one of the largest dinosaurs ever found. A full skeletal replica of that animal is now on permanent display at the Natural History Museum in London.
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