ABOYNE – Dinosaurs are back! The Wellington County Museum and Archives is bringing back its feathered dinosaur exhibit, produced by Canada’s Dinosaur Park, from Jan. 9 to March 31.
Exhibits will include life-sized, animatronic dinosaurs and fossils up close and will take visitors back to the Mesozoic Era when these creatures roamed the earth.
New this year, the museum will have a fossil dig table where visitors can use brushes to uncover replica fossils and be their own paleontologists.
“The dinosaurs in this exhibit are life-like moving models, fleshed out to show visitors how these creatures might have looked and moved. Our knowledge of dinosaurs keeps changing with every new discovery, including the fact that many dinosaurs likely had feathers,” said museum curator Hailey Johnston.
Visitors will see dinosaurs with skin, armoured plates and feathers and will learn when each dinosaur lived with additional information about each species.
This will be the first time the exhibit will have been shown at the museum since 2022, and is now being rebranded as “Dinosaurs Live.”
“We are thrilled to have it back,” said Johnston.
To learn more about the Canada’s Dinosaur Park organization visit reptileanddinosaurpark.org.
For information about the Wellington Museum and Archives and its event/exhibit schedules, visit wellington.ca/en/museum-and-archives.aspx.
