A new exhibit, Ultimate Dinosaurs: A New Breed of Beast, opens at Discovery Place Science, 168 W 6th Street, Charlotte, North Carolina, at noon on Friday, June 21, 2024.
The exhibit will be at Discovery Place Science from June 21 to September 8, 2024. There’s no up-charge to visit this exhibit. It’s included in general museum admission, and is free for members.
Museum Admission:
- Adults: $23
- Children 2-13: $18
- Seniors 60+ $20
- Children under 2 years old: Free
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Ultimate Dinosaurs focuses on lesser-known, more recently discovered dinosaurs of the Southern Hemisphere. These dinos are from South America, Africa and Madagascar. So, you won’t meet T-Rex, which lived in the North Hemisphere, but you will meet Giganotosaurus, which might be the largest land predator of all time.
There are casts of 16 dinosaur skeletons, from the tiniest to the hugest. But there are also authentic dinosaur fossils that you can touch, a microscope to zoom in on the smallest details of several artifacts, and films that show the beasts in motion.
Some of the dinosaurs represented in this exhibit roamed the Southern Hemisphere 116 million years ago.
Related Activities at Discovery Place Science
Visitors can immerse themselves in the of world of dinosaurs throughout the museum, in addition to the Ultimate Dinosaur exhibit.
KidScience on Level 1
KidScience will feature labs that focus on dinosaurs. Learn what they might have looked and sounded like, and compare them to their modern relatives. KidScience is included in Museum admission.
IMAX
T. REX will be showing at the IMAX Dome Theatre from June 29 to December 10, 2024. The IMAX screenings are ticketed separately from Museum admission. Learn more and purchase tickets.
Jurassic Lab Workshops
Both the Thinker Space and Think It Up areas on Level 3 feature Dinosaur workshops, which are included in Museum admission.
At Think It Up, try the Dinosaur Adaptations Design Challenge, where you can create your own body armor out of recycled material, and at Tinker Space, you can construct an artistic rendering of a dinosaur, create your own fossils or design a specialized tool to help you excavate dinos.
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