Introduction to the Special Issue commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, with a summary of the museum’s early history and its research contributions

Dale Alan Russell (1937–2019): voyageur of a vanished world1

“…As a direct consequence of the UNESCO designation, Alberta decided to build a major museum for displays about, storage of collections of, and research on dinosaurs from Alberta. The province was in a very solid financial position at that time, and had over $18 billion in what was called the Heritage Trust Fund (Gardner et al, 2015). (Russell 1970a).…”