The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum (PJCDM) will receive $250,000 to support the future display of the museum’s most significant find.
The funds will come from Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan), a federal government department meant to support business, innovation and community economic development in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Paleontologists from the museum recently unearthed a 72-million-year-old, 1.6 metre-long, 272-kilogram skull of a pachyrhinosaurus lakustai, a dinosaur unique to the Grande Prairie region.
“This will be a big fossil that’s completely homegrown. It will have been found by the paleontologists who work in the museum, who prepared the fossil for the excavation or to take it out, and it will stay in our lab and be worked on here, and it will go on display here,” said Linden Roberts, PJCDM executive director.
The PrairiesCan funds will go toward building a …