About 130,000 unique and rare fossils from western Europe were purchased by Andrew Carnegie in 1903 from Baron de Bayet, executive secretary to King Leopold II (at turn of last century) Belgium.
Examples of fossils on exhibit in our core exhibition Dinosaurs in Their Time are from Lyme Regis (England), Holzmaden (Germany), and Solnhofen (Germany).
The fossils were collected from famous paleontology sites in Europe and United States more than a century ago.
