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The Museum of the Rockies is a museum in Bozeman, Montana. Originally affiliated with Montana State University in Bozeman, and now, also, the Smithsonian Institution, the museum is known for its paleontological collections, although these are not its sole focus. The Museum of the Rockies houses the largest collection of dinosaur remains in the United States, possessing the largest ''Tyrannosaurus'' skull ever discovered, as well as the thigh bone of a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' that contains soft-tissue remains.〔 〕 The museum is part of the Montana Dinosaur Trail and is Montana's official repository for paleontological specimens. The museum's collections focus on the physical and cultural history of the Rocky Mountains and the people and animals who have lived there, and date back more than 500 million years. Permanent exhibits include: ''Enduring Peoples'', which chronicles the life of American Indians on the Northern Plains and near the Rocky Mountains; ''History of the Northern Rocky Mountain Region'', whose inhabitants included Native Americans, fur traders, gold seekers, and white settlers from frontier days through World War II; ''Living History Farm'', which includes the Tinsley House, where costumed interpreters demonstrate life in a turn-of-the-century home; and the ''Taylor Planetarium'', a , 104-seat domed theater. ==Overview== The Museum of the Rockies preserves and tells the stories of Montana and the Northern Rockies; educating visitors about the region's rich history, which includes its paleontological roots. The museum was founded in 1957, funded in part by a gift from Caroline M. McGill. The museum's collections have grown to include 300,000 objects that cover more than 500,000,000 years of history. In 1980, the museum acquired over 10,000 photographs and negatives from the heirs of Albert, Alfred and Chris Schlechten (now known as the Schlechten collection). These photographs chronicle the Bozeman and Yellowstone National Park areas over two generations (from about 1905 until the late 1970s).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Photo Archives )〕 The museum offers symposiums allowing Native Americans whose tribes called the region home, to share their oral histories with visitors. In 2005, the Museum became an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, which provided the museum greater access to the collections and programs of that institute. Traveling exhibits that visit the museum have covered topics as diverse as African American art, television and film costumes, the impact of weapons on the cultures of the Rocky Mountains, and King Tut. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Museum of the Rockies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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