The Age of Dinosaurs (Special Exhibit)

The Age of Dinosaurs has arrived at the Virginia Museum of Natural History! Designed and developed by museum staff and researchers, The Age of Dinosaurs special exhibit highlights a wide variety of dinosaur life that inhabited the earth during the Mesozoic era (approximately 252 to 66 million years ago). Featuring an incredible diversity of fossils, cast skeletons and skulls, as well as exciting animatronic displays and interactive elements, the exhibit provides museum visitors with a captivating step back in time.

Highlights of the exhibit include:

• Extremely rare fossilized sauropod (long-necked dinosaur) skin
• Long-necked dinosaur backbones and raptor teeth
• The only known fossil evidence that Triceratops engaged in battle with Tyrannosaurus rex and survived the
• encounter
• Life-size cast skeleton of Triceratops
• Life-size cast skull of Tyrannosaurus rex
• Fossilized theropod (three-toed dinosaur) tracks
• Dinosaur fossil field jackets
• Animatronic Herrerasaurus and Dilophosaurus displays
• An immersive dinosaur fossil dig pit, featuring a pop-up field tent and backlit scenic background depicting a fossil dig site worked by museum researchers in Wyoming
• Dinosaur egg photo-op

The Age of Dinosaurs is sponsored by Bassett Furniture Industries, Boxley Materials Company, Monogram Foods Loves Kids Foundation, and The Helen S. & Charles G. Patterson Jr. Charitable Foundation Trust.