Hatching the Past: American Dinosaur Explorers
16 July – 31 December 2022
The American Museum & Gardens presented Hatching the Past: American Dinosaur Explorers in our exhibition gallery in the second half of 2022.
Visitors could take a rare and exciting look at the life of dinosaurs through their eggs, nests and embryos. This remarkable hands-on exhibition offered an astounding array of dinosaur eggs and nests collected from all over the globe, with a special focus on the importance of American fossil sites in our understanding of dinosaurs.
A captivating experience for all ages, Hatching the Past invited visitors to touch real dinosaur bones and reconstructed nests, dig for eggs in our interactive dig pits, and view animated video presentations. Featuring a 9-metre long Tarbosaur skeleton, cousin of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Baby Louie, a fascinating complete skeleton of a dinosaur embryo. This fully multi-media experience helped give credence to long-debated theories that dinosaurs and birds are closely related.
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