DINOSAURS ROAR TO LIFE TO THE DELIGHT OF SPECIAL GUESTS DURING SNEAK PEEK OPENING
More than 100 students and community leaders show up for ‘Dinosaurs Around the World’ preview
(WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) Celebrating the best way they know how, more than a dozen animatronic dinosaurs greeted special guests by roaring, swinging their tails and moving their claws during the sneak peek opening of Dinosaurs Around the World. The prehistoric pack stomped into the West Palm Beach venue in mid-October, opening to the general public two days in advance due to an expedited installation. The life-like and life-sized replicas will be on display through April 16, 2016.
“This is the biggest, most realistic dinosaur exhibit around,” said Lew Crampton, CEO of the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium. “Our reptilian friends are back – and we are glad to have them as our guests! We know this exhibition is going to be huge – pun intended, especially given the recent popularity of Jurassic World.”
Dinosaurs Around the World invites guests to travel back to an age when dinosaurs ruled the planet – no time machine required. In addition to the pack that is on display like a prehistoric zoo, the exhibit also features a multi-layered narrative, fossils, authentic casts, cutting-edge research and immersive design elements. The resulting story is a clearly painted picture about the prehistoric planet and its early inhabitants.
“This exhibit is more than just world-class entertainment,” Crampton continued. “The dinosaurs are designed based on our most current knowledge of how dinosaurs looked and interacted with their environment millions of years ago.”
The exhibition poses questions to the visitor about the reign of the dinosaurs and helps them to discover how dinosaurs lived on each continent, how they interacted with each other, how geography impacted their behavior and diets and what the continents were really like at the time.
The South Florida Science Center and Aquarium features more than 50 hands-on educational exhibits, an 8,000 gallon fresh and salt water aquarium- featuring both local and exotic marine life, a digital planetarium, conservation research station, Florida exhibit hall, Pre-K focused “Discovery Center” and an interactive Everglades exhibit. All exhibits will be on display during Dinosaurs Around the World’s special showing.
In celebration of the new traveling exhibit, the Science Center is featuring a new planetarium show daily at 3 p.m. Dinosaurs Alive! is a global adventure of science and discovery. The show takes guests on a tour as the earliest creatures of the Triassic to the monsters of the Cretaceous are reincarnated. Renowned paleontologists take viewers on a journey as they hunt for fossilized clues, uncovering evidence that dinosaur descendants may still walk (or fly) among us today. In addition, the Science Center will feature special paleontology programing on select weekends.
Admission to Dinosaurs Around the World and the Science Center’s permanent exhibits will be $16.95 for adults, $12.95 for children aged 3 to 12, $14.95 for seniors aged 60 and older, and children under 3 are free. Planetarium shows and miniature golf are not included in general admission pricing.
The South Florida Science Center and Aquarium is located at 4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach and is open Monday – Friday from 9am-5pm, and on Saturday and Sunday from 10am-6pm. For more information about Dinosaurs Around the World and related programming, please call 561-832-1988 or visit www.sfsciencecenter.org. Like the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium on Facebook and follow them on Twitter and Instagram @SFScienceCenter.