After a tough year of Covid-19 disruption, Otago Museum is expecting its upcoming dinosaur exhibition to be popular.
Created by Gondwana Studios in Australia, the travelling show, "Dinosaur rEvolution", will open on October 3, and the museum is its only South Island venue.
The exhibition will feature four huge "animatronic" dinosaurs, which stand 3m high and are 8m long.
"Covid has been difficult," museum acting marketing manager Kate Oktay said, after earlier Covid-19 lockdowns and the museum’s closure for more than two months.
"It’s been a hard year and this is a really big exhibition and a big thing for us."
A series of "amazing events", including fossil-finding trips, community art projects, as well as speakers, were linked to the world-class show, which will run until February 8 next year.
The show also includes skulls, skeletons and fossil casts and is based on research from the Chinese Liaoning Province deposits.
These fossils were very well preserved, and contained dinosaur skin, soft tissue and even feathers and quills, and the resulting research findings changed our image of dinosaurs.
