Safari Ltd Carnegie Collection
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1994 Carnegie Collection promotional diorama by AAI Designs
The Carnegie Collection began in 1988 as a collaboration between the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and Safari Ltd. The Carnegie Museum wished to have a line of high-quality, scientifically accurate scale models to sell in their gift shop. They hired artist Forest Rogers to create the sculpts for the models and contracted with Safari Ltd. to produce and distribute them. Previous to this, Safari Ltd. did not make animal toys, but acted as a US distributer for brands like Schleich, Bullyland, and AAA. Safari contracted with Schleich and Bullyland to create molds based on Rogers' designs, and the earliest models were mass produced in the same facilities that made Schleich models. In return, Schleich was able to sell the Carnegie Collection as their own brand in Europe (for more information, see the Schleich Carnegie Collection). By the early 1990s, Safari began their own production of animal models and cut ties with Schleich, which introduced their own line of dinosaur figures to replace the Carnegie Collection. The co-operation between Safari and the Carnegie Museum was terminated in 2016, bringing and end to the Carnegie Collection line.
The scale-model Carnegie Collection dinosaurs were reviewed by paleontologists at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History to reflect the most up-to-date information. With the endorsement of the Carnegie Museum, which houses one of the world's largest collections of dinosaur fossils, these educational toys have won numerous awards for excellence and authenticity. Each Carnegie dinosaur was professionally sculpted by artist Forest Rogers, and individually hand painted.
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