If there's a pool at the hotel, that helps; if there's a museum with a dinosaur exhibit, that helps.

Access to the separate floors can be obtained via a central spiral staircase, or the popular glass elevator the rises above the towering dinosaur exhibit.

Other features include a dinosaur exhibit and a rotating exhibition space that holds anything from history to art exhibitions.

By the 1980s, the museum's permanent displays included a dinosaur exhibit, a space museum, and exhibits on geology, biology, petroleum science, technology, and geography.

Other notable successes later in the decade were several iterations of a traveling robotic dinosaur exhibit, which led to the center eventually installing a permanent dinosaur display in the 1990s.