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Final weekend of Ultimate Dinosaurs at the Minnesota State Fair — see the exhibition before it goes extinct. You’re gonn...
09/04/2026

Final weekend of Ultimate Dinosaurs at the Minnesota State Fair — see the exhibition before it goes extinct. You’re gonna dig this.

How lucky are we to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard 💙 It's the final weekend for Our Backyard, our seas...
09/03/2026

How lucky are we to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard 💙

It's the final weekend for Our Backyard, our seasonal outdoor exhibit on the banks of the Mississippi, and we thought we'd share some of the love our visitors are giving it in our post-visit survey. We couldn't agree more.

Full of large-scale adventures you can’t experience indoors, this open-air experience can't be missed. Come play with science today 🤸 🌞 🍃

Come see what everyone's talking about. One of the many joys of the Minnesota State Fair is the ability to get together ...
09/02/2026

Come see what everyone's talking about.

One of the many joys of the Minnesota State Fair is the ability to get together (hence the moniker The Great Minnesota Get-Together) with friends, like ours at Twin Cities Live, Fox 9, The Jason Show, KARE 11, and WCCO & CBS News Minnesota, to name a few. We've loved catching up about everything we've got going on at the Fair, like:

🦖 Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit: Open through Monday!
🗣️ Fossil Corner talks: Tomorrow and Friday only!
🛍️ Explore Store pop-up: Merch is selling fast, get yours before it's gone!
💧 Wonderful Water Day: Come say hi at the DNR booth TODAY only!

All info for our SMM x MN State Fair crossover can be found here: smm.org/events.

09/01/2026

Kesha said it best.

One more week of Ultimate Dinosaurs at the Minnesota State Fair. Get in to see these rare & unique giants while you can, including fully articulated casts of lesser-known dinosaurs like:
• Giganotosaurus
• Malawisaurus
• Suchomimus
• Eoraptor
• Amargasaurus

Free to all and open all twelve days of the Fair! Find it in the air-conditioned North End Event Center.

09/01/2026

We’ve got something new in the cards for our dino lovers.

launched their new Glacial Maxima pack TODAY, and we asked of to dig into the new Pleistocene Ice Age playing cards. Hear his thoughts on the great beasts of this frozen world, from the famed wooly mammoth to the lesser-known cave hyena.

You can get your Glacial Maxima starter AND booster packs in our Explore Store, as well as cards from the first two series: Dawn of Hell Creek and Jurassic Regency. Happy collecting!

store.smm.org

09/01/2026

Transport back 100 million years by stepping into the North End Event Center! 🦕

Ultimate Dinosaurs, presented by the Science Museum of Minnesota, is FREE with State Fair admission, all 12 days of the fair.

08/29/2026

You heard it from . If you don't like dinosaurs, try again.

If you do like dinosaurs and the , join us for fossil-themed fun the next twelve days! Find us in the North End Event Center, the perfect pit stop for some cool-down time and cool dino facts.

🦖 Ultimate Dinosaurs: Dramatic casts, authentic fossils and touchable specimens bring you face-to-face with real prehistoric remains, while augmented reality "skin viewers" reveal what these dinosaurs may have actually looked like in life.
🗣️ Fossil Corner: Visit with museum paleontologists! Ask questions, hear the stories, and experience paleontology in action.
🛍️ Explore Store: Snag giant plushies, dino merch, statement tees, and other science-themed swag at our special pop-up shop.

How is this Great MN Get-Together gear? Fairly! New this year, we're slinging our exclusive science-themed merch at the ...
08/28/2026

How is this Great MN Get-Together gear? Fairly!

New this year, we're slinging our exclusive science-themed merch at the ! Swing by our Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit in the North End Event Center, then cap off your visit with a take-home teeny Pronto Pup from our gashapon machine.

Not a fair-goer? Fear not, fair not. You can still find plenty of STEM swag in our Explore Store: store.smm.org.

Come hang with us through Labor Day at the Great Minnesota Get-Together! Join us for any (but preferably all) of the fol...
08/27/2026

Come hang with us through Labor Day at the Great Minnesota Get-Together! Join us for any (but preferably all) of the following activities, because the best part of the Fair is the friends we make and the facts we learn and the foods we eat along the way 😊

🦕 Ultimate Dinosaurs Exhibit
🦴 Fossil Corner scientist talks
💧 Wonderful Water Day
🧪 STEM Day

All included with your State Fair admission!

08/26/2026

We'd like to give a warm round of applause to our install team for Ultimate Dinosaurs at the for getting this up and running in just three weeks! Now it's up to you to bask in the results of their hard work.

Ultimate Dinosaurs invites you to experience a side of the prehistoric world most have never seen. This exhibition ventures beyond the familiar Triceratops and T. rex of North America to showcase spectacular dinosaur discoveries from the Southern Hemisphere — South America, Africa, and Madagascar. Trace how the ancient supercontinent Pangaea gradually split apart, isolating these southern lands and setting the stage for some of the strangest, most gigantic dinosaurs ever to walk the earth. Journey from the earliest known dinosaurs of the Triassic Period through the fragmentation of the southern supercontinent Gondwana and discover how tectonic drift and evolution in isolation produced wildly different creatures from those found up north. The journey culminates in the Late Cretaceous, where the exhibition’s dinosaurs reveal how millions of years of separation shaped two distinct dinosaur worlds.

Moar roar: Check out https://smm.org/events for times to meet museum palenontologists, see real dino fossils, and learn about Minnesota’s ancient past.

🦕 Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit
📍 North End Event Center
📆 Aug. 27-Sept. 7, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
🎫 Included with fair admission

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120 W. Kellogg Boulevard
Saint Paul, MN
55102

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Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5am
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 8pm
Saturday 10am - 8pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

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