Drumheller Learning Programs & Vacations

The Royal Tyrrell Museum offers several discovery programs suitable for all ages and groups including students, families, kids and organizations. Experience hands-on learning opportunities in biology, palaeontology and geology. Programs include nine different summer activities, the EnCana Badlands Science Camp, school programs and other fun outings. For something really different, try their fall and spring Camp-Ins that involve sleeping in the Galleries with the dinosaurs.

Enjoy 16 Tons of Fun at the Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site. Underground tunnel tours, tipple tours and mine train tours carry visitors to the darkest years of Alberta’s past. Don a miner’s lamp and ascend an inclined tunnel. Step into a mine portal, high in the badlands. Scramble into a coal car, and ride a battery train through the historic landscape. Climb the wooden tipple, and hear stories of men who dug the black. Located in Drumheller Valley, this Alberta coal mining museum is an outstanding educational school field-trip destination. Open daily from May 1st through October 10th.

Wild West Badlands Tours provides half-day and full-day guided tours in the Alberta Badlands. Tours offered include Badlands, Dinosaurs and Pre-historic Times, the Wild West Adventure, which includes hayrides into a buffalo herd on the prairies, and The Ultimate Dinosaur Experience - a tour that features a trip to the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Pick-up services are available in Drumheller at hotels, campgrounds, bed and breakfasts and the World's Largest Dinosaur. For pickup service in Calgary groups of eight or more are required. Group and family rates are available and vacation packages can be arranged.