Museum Displays

You can see Burgess Shale-related fossils, models and dioramas in North America at the Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, and in Europe  at the Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge (UK). The Field Museum in Chicago offers digital animations.

• Royal Ontario Museum, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (in English only)
• Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, D.C. (in English only), in the new Ocean Hall Gallery and in the Hall of Paleobiology
• Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada (in English only)
• Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (in English only)
• Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University, United Kingdom (in English only)

Some fossils are also presented at the Parks Canada Information Centre, in Field, British Columbia near the Burgess Shale itself, and in the headquarters of the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa.

Burgess Shale Webpages

These pages are hosted by holders of major Burgess Shale collections.

Royal Ontario Museum (in English only):

• Research page
• Burgess Shale models

Geological Survey of Canada (in English and French):

• Mount Stephen Trilobite Beds
• Marrella and the Burgess Shale
• The Hallucigenia flip

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History (in English only):

• General page
• Burgess Shale fossil specimens
• The Cambrian World

Other Webpages of Interest

Parks Canada Burgess Shale information (in English and French):

• The Burgess Shale

Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation (in English only):

• www.burgess-shale.bc.ca

University of California Museum of Paleontology (in English only):

• The Burgess Shale
• Meet the Cambrian critters

General sites about evolution and fossils (in English only):

• http://www.paleoportal.org/index.php
• http://www.palaeos.org/
• http://evolution.berkeley.edu/
• http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/evolution/

General resources on trilobites (in English only)

More on the panoramic photographs of Charles Walcott at the Smithsonian Institution and the Vaux family fonds of photographs at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies (in English only).