On 6 October 2020, a mysterious buyer paid a record-breaking $31.8m for the famous Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Stan.
The rare, mostly complete skeleton of the dinosaur quickly vanished from the public eye. Paleontologists were left worried that the auction sale to a secret buyer would drive up the cost of rare skeletons, price out smaller museums and deny researchers – and the public – access to them.
One and a half years later, the buyer has finally been unmasked. Using American trade records, National Geographic magazine tracked the 5.6-ton shipment in May 2021 from New York to the United Arab Emirates.
The mystery was solved: Stan was headed to Abu Dhabi, to be put on display in the city’s future natural history museum, a 377,000 sq ft project under construction on Saadiyat Island, an upscale arts district in the capital.
The Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, slated for completion in 2025, will “feature some of the rarest wonders of natural history ever found”, according to a press release from Abu Dhabi’s department of culture and tourism. The museum told National Geographic that it would build and run a research facility with a focus on zoology, paleontology, marine biology, earth sciences and molecular research.
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