Part of the display is shown in the newly updated and expanded Dinosphere exhibit at The Children’s Museum in Indianapolis.
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News flash: Dinosaurs are hardly extinct.
How do we know?
Because they’re roaming all over the newly updated and expanded Dinosphere at The Children’s Museum in downtown Indianapolis.
Kids and kids-at-heart can get up close to the prehistoric giants in the redone, hands-on display that originally opened in 2004. It quickly became the venue’s most popular permanent exhibit.
Museum organizers say they’ve taken everything you know and love about Dinosphere and made it “even more amazing,” according to marketing material.
Visitors can stand in awe of enormous long-necked, four-legged creatures in Giants of the Jurassic, see your old dino friends in Creatures of the Cretaceous, explore the ancient aquatic world in Monsters of the Mesozoic Seas, and spark your creativity in Dinosphere Art Lab — all part of the new Dinosphere.
They were some of the largest animals ever to roam the Earth. And now they can trigger the largest curiosity possible.
Here is an overview of those five main areas of the exhibit:Giants of the Jurassic: Stomp through a Jurassic forest and come face-to-face … well … face-to-knee with two massive, four-legged, long-necked, plant-eating sauropods. Follow their tracks to discover what they’ve been up to. But watch out. There might be signs of a meat-eating theropod nearby. Explore and discover how fossils give clues about how these sauropods became so massive.
Creatures of the Cretaceous: Favorites from the Cretaceous Period that were found in the original Dinosphere return with new live, interactive programs and some improvements to the multimedia experience. Visitors can dig into prehistoric life with paleontological activities.
Monsters of the Mesozoic Seas: Mysterious creatures from Earth’s past are returning to ignite your imagination and delight your sense of adventure. Explore ancient aquatic animals in this immersive experience. Take a deep dive into the Monsters of the Mesozoic Seas with interactive programs and displays.
Dinosphere Art Lab: Guests can become paleo art storytellers and pair real science with their creativity to draw, sculpt, and design a day in the life of a dinosaur. They can even draw a dinosaur hatchling, scan it, and watch it hatch and come to life on a large projection screen or sculpt a dinosaur egg.
Paleo Prep Lab: Our scientists have been busy in the R.B. Annis Mission Jurassic Paleo Lab and the Polly H. Hix Paleo Prep Lab cleaning, preparing, studying, and researching the real fossils they dug up from the Jurassic Mile dig site in Wyoming. They’re excited to share their discoveries with visitors and allow them to touch real dinosaur bones.
