‘DINOSAURS REVEALED’
Visitors to Mid-America Science Museum stroll past a skeletal replica of a Tyrannosaurs Rex Tuesday. The replica is part of the “Dinosaurs Revealed” exhibit that is scheduled to open this weekend at the museum. The exhibit, which includes fossils and animatronic dinosaurs, will be on display throughout the summer.
Mid-America Science Museum will present “Dinosaurs Revealed” this Memorial Day weekend, marking its first summer exhibit since its grand reopening in March 2015.
The exhibit, which includes fossils and animatronic dinosaurs, will be on display throughout the summer.
Visitors have the opportunity to view and even touch six full dinosaur skeletal replicas, including a Triceratops, Tyrannosaurs Rex and Velociraptor. There are additional replicas of skulls, arms, legs, eggs, footprints and a 6-foot 1-inch long Apatosaurus femur. Visitors will also enjoy a dig box where they can use paleontology tools to unearth dinosaur bones.
In addition to the fossils that will be on display from the Arkansas Discovery Network, the museum will have lifelike animatronic dinosaurs beginning in the center of the museum’s light bridge. The dinosaurs will include an adult Triceratops, a Maiasaura family, a Tyrannosaurus Rex and others that will be placed throughout galleries inside the museum. There will also be an interactive “Dino Scavenger Hunt” and special education stations throughout the interior and exterior portions of the museum.
“’Dinosaurs Revealed’ will be unlike any dinosaur exhibit that we have had before,” Niles Ellis, the museum’s director of exhibits and design, said in a news release. “The exhibit will begin with the fossil display and evolve into a world of lifelike dinosaur vignettes throughout the museum. Visitors will be immersed in a prehistoric world with sound, lighting and foliage so that visitors will feel like they are literally traveling back into prehistoric times.”
Many of the museum’s permanent exhibitions will continue to be on display throughout the summer. New summer hours begin Memorial Day with the museum opening seven days a week Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. until Labor Day weekend.
Call 767-3461 or visit http:// www.midamericamuseum.org for more information about Dinosaurs Revealed and educational programming at Mid-America Science Museum.