Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi
Science museum spanning thirty-five thousand square meters, home to the world's most expensive dinosaur fossil.
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This guide to the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi opens inside a New York saleroom in October 2020, where a Tyrannosaurus rex nicknamed Stan went up for auction and two anonymous phone bidders drove the price far past expectations. It follows Stan from his 1987 discovery in South Dakota through his life as a touring research cast, then traces how customs records eventually surfaced the buyer's identity. Best heard standing before the skeleton itself, on Saadiyat Island beside the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
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