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Hungry for dinosaurs?  Sink your teeth into Dino Day!

Below is information about the 2nd annual Dino Day family festival on January 12, 2008. The 3rd Annual Dino Day festival is January 10, 2009 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, Virginia. 

The 2nd Annual Dino Day festival on January 12, 2007 drew a record crowd of more than 1,300 visitors, and featured exhibits, music, games, food and fun activities for visitors of all ages.  Specimens on display at the festival included an Allosaurus skeleton, a skeleton of a 14 million year old baleen whale - Eobalaenoptera - suspended from a towering 40-foot ceiling, an animatronic model of a Triceratops, a display of a Syntarsus dinosaur with its prey, a Tyrannosaurus Rex skull, a recreated Phytosaurus, and dinosaurs bones and other fossils collected at actual VMNH research sites around the world.

2007 Dino Day festival activities included:

Dino Dig Pit - Strap on your goggles and grab your tools to search for "dino fossils" in the Dino Dig Pit.

Dino Crafts - Make your very own dino crafts during Dino Day.

Meet the Scientists - Meet the real scientists and learn about their expeditions to collect dinosaur fossils.  Find out what it takes to become a Paleontologist!

Special Dino Films - Don't miss the CineMuse film "Walking with Dinosaurs: A Time of Titans" in our high-definition Hooker Furniture Theater!

Costumed Dino Characters - Have your picture taken with 'Cera' the Triceratops and friends.

A Special Dino Day Play - Students from Carlisle School will present the play "Dr. Belinda Brilliant and her Amazing Learn More Machine: Dinosaurs." Join Dr. Brilliant as she uses her 'Amazing Learn More Machine' to travel back in time to 150 million years ago to study dinosaurs.

Visitors completed their Dino Day experience by visiting to the Museum Store.

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