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Displays, exhibitions and museums about Dinosaurs

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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
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Stegosaurus
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Triceratops
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Camarasaurus
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Edmontosaurus

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Mammoth
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And the most imposing of all

T-rex named Trix
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Grrr, Imrahil
 
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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

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.

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
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Stegosaurus
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Triceratops
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Camarasaurus
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Diplodocus

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Mammoth
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And the most imposing of all

T-rex named Trix
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Grrr, Imrahil

Gotta love that T-Rex skeleton. And the Triceratops! (Love you Stegs!)
 

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.
 
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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.
 
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 think that was a cock up on my side :oops:
It has been changed. It is actually an Edmontosaurus, found that out after some searching online.

Grrr, Imrahil
 
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.

Have a fun visit!

Grrr, Imrahil
 
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