Glendive Dinosaur & Fossil Museum
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Glendive Dinosaur & Fossil Museum is a museum in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 647 m. Blue Mountain stands 904 m to the south-southeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Frontier Gateway Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away. 98 named places lie within 25 miles, 12 of them named summits.
The museum houses more than 24 full-size dinosaurs plus numerous singular fossils. It also houses informative exhibits explaining the origin of the geologic column, the fossil record, the age of the earth, as well as a Biblical history exhibit.
The story
The Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum is a private dinosaur museum in Glendive, Montana, in the United States. The museum was founded by Otis Kline, and is owned by the non-profit organization Advancing Creation Truth. It promotes a Young Earth creationist (YEC) explanation of evolution based on a literal interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative in the Bible. This creationist museum promotes the belief that non-avian dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time, including a belief that dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark. Built between 2005 and 2009, mostly with volunteer labor, the structure is valued at about $4 million, not counting the value of the exhibits.
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Wikidata Q30641654, matched on coordinates and name (17 m apart).
What the record says
- Built
- 2009
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
98 named places within 25 miles
- State: 1.3 mi
- MT FWP Black Bridge Fishing Site: 2.3 mi
- MT FWP: 4.9 mi
- State Trust: 5.1 mi
- BLM: 5.3 mi
- Meissner American Legion Baseball Field: 0.4 mi
- Penninger Park: 0.8 mi
- Boy with Dog Park: 0.9 mi
- Perham Field: 1.0 mi
- Lloyd Square Park: 1.0 mi
- Hungry Joe: 2.1 mi
- Bryants Buttes: 2.8 mi
- Custers Lookout: 3.4 mi
- Glendive Butte: 6.8 mi
- Blue Mountain: 12.4 mi
- Dawson County Fairgrounds: 0.6 mi
- Baischs Dinosaur Digs LLC: 2.8 mi
- Rock Bridge: 4.9 mi
- Iron Bluffs: 8.7 mi
- Barrs Bluffs: 24.3 mi
- Frontier Gateway Museum: 0.1 mi
- Pine-on-the-Rock Picnic Site/ Campground: 4.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Glendive Dinosaur & Fossil Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mountain | SSE 158° | 904 m | 12.4 mi |
| Pine Hill | SSE 169° | 868 m | 24.6 mi |
| Four Buttes | E 94° | 864 m | 23.2 mi |
| Twin Buttes | NW 318° | 847 m | 18.5 mi |
| Rattlesnake Butte | SSE 166° | 817 m | 18.0 mi |
| Mount McKinley | SSE 160° | 817 m | 22.3 mi |
| Glendive Butte | NNW 327° | 802 m | 6.8 mi |
| Cluster Buttes | E 81° | 779 m | 16.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:31 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:04 | 20:11 | 20:59 |
| September equinox | 06:46 | 18:18 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:43 | 15:20 | 16:12 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 19 | 23 | 35 | 47 | 57 | 66 | 74 | 73 | 62 | 48 | 34 | 23 |
| Precip in | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Glendive, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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