It seems the people at the Natural History Museum in London are planning their new exhibition to firmly appeal to kids with lots of moving lifelike dinosaurs and a dash of prehistoric poo to guarantee success.
Made famous by the lifesized skeletons of dinosaurs and of course the odd lifesize blue whale model, the Natural History Museum in London is going all high and low tech with its new flagship exhibition to explain how dinosaurs lived on earth for so long and in such diverse numbers.
The skeletons are still there, but the new Age of the Dinosaur exhibition brings the latest in animatronics to the museum, allowing visitors to see for the first time what a dinosaur might look like standing in front of them, although luckily most of them were vegetarian.
Mind you, it is a good thing these dinosaurs are animatronic as you really wouldn’t want to get too close to the Gallimimus which can be found lurking within the darker regions of the exhibition and could run at 30mph and had we suspect rather a passion for kids as a snack. This is where those scenes from Jursasic Park start to come to life!
Some of the creatures are simply represented by a head and neck such as the Camarasaurus which was around 18 metres (59 feet) long and could have itself taken up half the exhibition space had the full sized creature been recreated.
Oh and yes, to keep the fascination going, there is genuine fossilised dinosaur poo on display which if the size of these creatures is anything to go by, well lets just be glad it is fossilised or you can imagine the amount of Febreze you’d need!
Video promotion for the Age of the Dinosaurs:
For more details, see the Age of the Dinosaur exhibition web site.
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