Hi All, I searched the forum and haven't yet found a thread dedicated to visits from forum members to a Dinosaur Exhibition or Display. For a forum so full of Dino-lovers this seems to me like a missing thing. So for everybody who has been to any place to see Dinosaurs be welcome to share your pictures with us in this Thread. Grrr, Imrahil
Of course I started this thread because I went to a museum that had a Dinosaur Exhibition My twin brother had given my son a day out as a birthday present (I was included ) We went to Naturalis Biodiversity Center (the national museum of national history and a research center on biodiversity in Leiden, the Netherlands), they have an enormous variety of natures specimens. One of the permanent exhibitions is the Dinosaur Era. This displays various Dinosaur skeletons: Plateosaurus Stegosaurus Triceratops Camarasaurus Edmontosaurus Mammoth And the most imposing of all T-rex named Trix Grrr, Imrahil
Awesome idea. I haven't been to the London Natural History Museum in decades but I fondly remember looking up at the T-Rex skeleton. Gotta love that T-Rex skeleton. And the Triceratops! (Love you Stegs!)
Great idea! Of course, some of the names listed in the museum are wrong, have you tried showing them our battletome?
To me that doesn't look anything like a diplodocus. That looks much more like a hadrosaur - Anatotitan perhaps? Saurolophus?. Diplodocus was one of the longest sauropods to have existed and that clearly isn't a sauropod. I'm surprised none of you lot spotted such a mistake being a forum of dinosaur fans, but maybe not all of you have been reading dinosaur books since below 4 years old as I have Anyway, what a great thread, sadly I have no pictures because I never took a camera with me to the museums I had been to. However I can tell you the ones I have visited: The Dinosaur Museum, Dorchester (I was such a regular visitor to this one on holiday that the staff got to know me and my parents) Dinosaur Isle, Isle of Wight Charmouth Heritage Centre, Charmouth (Mainly fossils, including a dinosaur found locally, and was given some freebie belemnite fossils there) Lyme Regis Museum, Lyme Regis Dorset County Museum, Dorchester Natural History Museum, London All of these I loved when I was young and I still thoroughly recommend them for a visit.
Good thread! There are some nice museums with dinosaurs in Germany, too. Some of them not far away from where I live. I plan to visit them with my kids in a few months, since they are also interested. I'll definitely post some pics here then.
I think that was a cock up on my side It has been changed. It is actually an Edmontosaurus, found that out after some searching online. Grrr, Imrahil