Dinosaur Museum

Dinosaur Museum

The Dinosaur Museum
Icen Way
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1EW

Tel: 01305 269 880
Fax: 01305 268 885

Web: Dinosaur Museum

About Dinosaur Museum

Actual fossils, dinosaur skeletons, and life-size dinosaur reconstructions combine with multimedia, hands on, computer and CD-ROM displays to excite, enthral, and entertain the visitor. The Dinosaur Museum has been extensively featured on television and has become nationally famous for its innovative, adventurous and friendly approach. The museum has won many awards throughout its history.
Dinosaurs ruled the land for some 150 million years, finally becoming extinct 65 million years ago. Our fascination with dinosaurs started in the 1820s when the first true discoveries of dinosaur bones were made in England. Then in 1841 Sir Richard Owen invented the word 'dinosauria' - meaning terrible lizard' - to describe this group of prehistoric monsters. Dinosaur fever was created and over 150 years later people's imaginations are still being excited by these prehistoric creatures. This interest in the history of dinosaurs and sense of 'dinomania' is reflected in The Dinosaur Museum.
The visitor immediately encounters a complete dinosaur skeleton of the famous meat-eating Megalosaurus, a Jurassic dinosaur, with its sickle-shaped claws and teeth, mounted over a set of very rare footprints made by that dinosaur. Megalosaurus was the first dinosaur to be scientifically named 175 years