Four good dinosaur experiences

Visitors to Melbourne this March will find themselves transported back in time to the pre-historic dinosaur age with these four new dinosaur attractions.

Jurassic World: The Exhibition – Melbourne Museum

Opening on March 17th 2016, Museum Victoria introduces one of the most exciting exhibitions of the year. Jurassic World: The Exhibition (from 19 March 2016), based on Universal Pictures’ blockbuster film is an immersive exhibition experience, featuring encounters with realistic, life-size animatronic dinosaurs set in highly themed environments, inspired by the film.

Created in close collaboration with renowned paleontologist Jack Horner, the exhibition is infused with interactive educational elements—drawn from the real-world science of dinosaur DNA.

Thanks to the lifelike animatronics, developed by Melbourne’s own Creature Technology Company, visitors will be able to come face-to-face with a Pachyrhinosaurus; visit The Hammond Creation Lab; stare in wonder at a towering Brachiosaurus; get a rare up-close look at the most vicious dinosaur of them all, Tyrannosaurus rex; and learn all about top-secret projects currently in development.

Media enquiries: Maria O’Dwyer at Museum Victoria, +61 3 8341 7366, +61 466 567 306, modwyer@museum.vic.gov.au

Jurassic Creatures – Harbour Town, Docklands

From Jurassic World to Jurassic Creatures, an interactive walk through event at Harbour Town Melbourne from 12 March to 17 April 2016. Jurassic Creatures features massive moving dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures of the ice. Visitors can marvel at the story of their 165 million year domination of life on earth, watch them move and hear them roar! Prehistoric animals included in the colossal event include Mammoths, fearsome Saber Tooth Tigers and the ever-popular, Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Children can become a paleontologist for the day, donning an expert digger outfit before chipping away to unearth their very own fossil. Buddy & Tiny from Dinosaur Train will be on hand to entertain the pre-schoolers and there will be dinosaur art and craft, fossil displays and amusement activities.

Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D

Linking closely to the Dinosaur Walk, 600 Million Years and Victoria Evolves exhibitions at Melbourne Museum – IMAX Melbourne presents the movie event 70 million years in the making. Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet 3D tells the story of the life cycle of egg laying dinosaurs. The rearing of the hatchlings and their vulnerability to predators like the Troodon and natural disasters. With the most ambitious CGI visuals, this film reveals a year in the life of dinosaurs fighting, feeding, migrating, playing and hunting in a constant battle of survival. The movie opens on March 10th 2016.

Dinosaur World

A big red barn provides the entrance to a family friendly gem of an attraction in the Mornington Peninsula – an hour out of Melbourne. Dinosaur World is slowly but surely gathering large, realistic looking dinosaurs to its collection. Kids are entranced, delighted, and a little bit scared as they pick their way through the bushy dinosaur trail as the creatures move and roar when they pass by. It’s $50 for a family pass and kids under 2 are free. The venue also doubles as the Somerville Christmas Tree Farm. Located five minutes from Peninsula Link. Take the Somerville exit and travel down Frankston Flinders Road.