{"id":29181,"date":"2024-09-20T11:20:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T11:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=29181"},"modified":"2024-09-20T11:20:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T11:20:48","slug":"exhibitions-international-debut-for-prehistoric-summer-at-newcastle-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/09\/20\/exhibitions-international-debut-for-prehistoric-summer-at-newcastle-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition\u2019s international debut for prehistoric summer at Newcastle Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Newcastle Museum is hatching a world premiere 145 million years in the making, as Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction <\/em>showcases the giants and babies of the Cretaceous from the brink of oblivion to the skies of today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition of bones, fossils and hands-on discoveries by Gondwana Studios is taking shape behind the scenes and will roam the Museum from Saturday, 28 September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"CityCity of Newcastle Director of Museum, Archive, Libraries & Learning, Julie Baird gets up close with one of the prehistoric skeletons as the installation of the Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction exhibition continues ahead of its opening at Newcastle Museum on Saturday, 28 September.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With interactive dig pits and touch fossils among more than 100 items that will be on display, Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction<\/em> tracks the journey from raptor to rosella and the origins of birds today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

City of Newcastle Director of Museum, Archive, Libraries & Learning, Julie Baird, said the family-friendly exhibition will bring thousands of visitors up close and personal with an entirely new cast of dinosaurs who share a story of survival against the odds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Newcastle Museum knows how to bring dinosaurs to life and we’re seeing it happen right now. Whether you loved Sea Monsters<\/em> and the Great Baby Dinosaur Show<\/em>, or you wonder how these creatures connect to the world around us, Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction<\/em> has something for you,” Ms Baird said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What’s being assembled in the Museum is a glimpse of a time when life on Earth was in turmoil. Dinosaurs faced their extinction and, as we know, for most it was the end. But for some, life found a way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNewcastle Museum is committed to bringing engaging, high quality touring exhibitions to the Hunter Region that enrich Newcastle’s cultural offering and give local communities access to national and international exhibitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeing this world-first display come together is creating a buzz for our wonderful Museum staff and for the city.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahead of its opening on 28 September, technicians inside Newcastle Museum are busy readying a nine-metre skeleton of an apex carnivore, bones you can touch, dig pits filled with hidden dino clues, baby dinosaurs, and replica dinosaur nests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cretaceous-period VIPs on display will include the bizarre feathered Utahraptor,<\/em> the mythical Griffin-inspiring Protoceratops <\/em>and T-Rex’s Steppe-stomping sibling, Tarbosaurus.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the end of the Cretaceous period caught many by surprise, Ms Baird said this exhibition would be timed nicely around school holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This will be a fantastic day out for kids, families and visitors of any age. An encounter with a dinosaur in a museum is a treasured memory for many of us and it’s fantastic that those memories are being made in our Newcastle Museum,” Ms Baird said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The setup for Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction<\/em> is impressive on its own. This is a sensory collection of everything from eggs to full-scale predators, coming together piece by piece before any other city gets to see it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My advice to any up-and-coming palaeontologist is to look out for suspiciously large footprints around Newcastle, which provide more details on this wonderful exhibition.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction <\/em>opens to the public on 28 September and runs until 2 March 2025.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ticket prices start from $7.50 for children, $15 for adults and $40 for a family of four and will be on sale from 28 September at Newcastle Museum. Tickets can also be pre-purchased online from 20 September via newcastlemuseum.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newcastle Museum is hatching a world premiere 145 million years in the making, as Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction showcases the giants and babies of the Cretaceous from the brink of oblivion to the skies of today. The exhibition of bones, fossils and hands-on discoveries by Gondwana Studios is taking shape behind the scenes and will roam the Museum … Continue reading “Exhibition\u2019s international debut for prehistoric summer at Newcastle Museum”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29182,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29181\/revisions\/29182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}