Paleo Passport

Collect a stamp at every fossil museum you visit

The Paleo Passport is coming soon. It’s a pocket booklet you carry from museum to museum across the US and Canada, picking up a stamp at each front desk along the way. Sign up and we’ll let you know the day it’s ready.

How it works

  1. Carry the passport

    Bring the printed booklet in your bag, or keep a digital one on your phone.

  2. Get stamped at the front desk

    Each stamp station has an ink stamp with one of the museum’s own fossils drawn in the middle.

  3. Or scan the code

    Every station has a QR code too. Scan it and the visit’s saved to your digital passport, even if you left the book at home.

Fossils you’ll meet

  • SUE the T. rex, art by Fabrizio De Rossi

    SUE the T. rex

    Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois

    Found in South Dakota in 1990, and still the most complete T. rex skeleton anyone has dug up.

    Art by Fabrizio De Rossi

  • Dunkleosteus, art by Julio Lacerda

    Dunkleosteus

    Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio

    An armored fish with bony blades for teeth, pulled from the shale under Cleveland itself.

    Art by Julio Lacerda

  • The fish-within-a-fish, art by Joschua Knüppe

    The fish-within-a-fish

    Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays, Kansas

    A 13-foot Xiphactinus found in western Kansas with the fish it swallowed still inside.

    Art by Joschua Knüppe

  • Borealopelta, art by Joschua Knüppe

    Borealopelta

    Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta

    An armored dinosaur so well preserved its skin and armor are still in place. A heavy equipment operator found it in an oil sands mine.

    Art by Joschua Knüppe

Where it’ll take you

If you’ve ever carried a National Parks passport, you’ll know how this works. The passport is organized by region, with every natural history museum listed and room to stamp the ones you visit.

  • Northeast
  • Mid-Atlantic and Southeast
  • Great Lakes
  • Great Plains
  • Rocky Mountains
  • Southwest
  • Pacific
  • Canada

Run a museum? Apply for a stamp station

We’re starting with a small group of museums across the US and Canada. Stations come with a stamp of one of your specimens drawn by a paleoartist, plus a small counter sign. Tell us about your museum and we’ll be in touch.

Does your museum have a gift shop?

Get on the list

We’ll let you know the day the Paleo Passport is ready.