Dino Bash!

Stampede to the Museum for a day of prehistoric proportions as we celebrate the largest lizards every to roam the lands. This action packed day will have you discovering, digging, dancing and digesting... and even transforming yourself into a dinosaur!

Standout Features...
Dino Bounce
Calling all bouncing brachiosauruses and leaping leptoceratops! Go dino-crazy in our prehistoric bouncy castle.
All Day Otago Museum Reserve, Free

Mega Dino Makeovers
Simply missing a scale or need a whole makeover? Our face painters are armed and ready to transform you into the ugliest, scariest, most tyrannically terrifying dinosaur with their prehistoric face painting.
10am - 12.30pm, Atrium Level 1, Free

Film Screening: The Lost Dinosaurs
How did dinosaurs make it to the tiny islands of New Zealand and whatever happened to them? Join self-educated palaeontologist Joan Wiffen, and discover what life was like in New Zealand when giant lizards roamed the land.
10.30am, Barclay Theatre, Free

Professor Jay the Juggler
Join Professor Jay, explorer extraordinaire, and his destructive dinosaur assistant for some Jurassic juggling, Mesozoic magic and Cretaceous comedy along with some prehistoric puffing of balloon brachiosauruses and other inflatable beasts.
11am, Atrium Level 1, Free

Fossil Extraction with Andrew Grebneff
Fossils revealed after thousands years! Join Andrew Grebneff, palaeontology preparator - as he extracts fossils buried in stone and talks about the process that created them, different types of fossils and what type of rock could reveal dinosaur remains in New Zealand.
11.30am, Special Exhibitions Gallery, Free with your Dinosaur Eggs and Babies admission

Story telling with Gertie
Round up the little therapods to meet Gertie, the gorgeous baby dryosaur, as she visits us from Auckland Museum to help tell a tale or two about her friends and relatives from the Mesozoic.
12.30pm, Special Exhibitions Gallery, free with your Dinosaur Eggs and Babies admission

Become a Dinosaur
Ever wanted to have the tail of a stegosaurus? Well now's your chance, as we create all the good bits that make up a dinosaur, so you can dress up and scare your friends with your carnivorous costume creations.
1.30pm, Atrium Level 1, Free

The DinoShow!
Travel back in time to the prehistoric past. This show is sure to have you in "raptors"!
1.30pm, Special Exhibitions Gallery, free with your Dinosaur Eggs and Babies admission

Fossil Detectives
Calling all budding palaeontologists! Line up for the biggest fossil expedition of the Cenozoic era. Take a trip around the galleries to discover, explore, even become fossils in this action packed dino tour.
2pm, meet at the Information Desk, Free

Dino Hip Hop Stomp
Get those dino-feet stomping and get down, with the most Jurassic-fantastic sounds this side of the KT boundary. RASA is here and they're sure to get you shaking your tail scales as they jam out to some hip hop beats sure to get you dancing Dino style.
2.30pm, Atrium Level 1, Free

Sketch a Sauropod Competition Winners announcement
Be there to find out who has won the big competition and recreated the best hatchling sauropod to take home egg-cellent prizes!
3pm, Atrium Level 1, Free

Fossilised in Chocolate!
65 million years ago all the dinosaurs suddenly became extinct. Many believe this was a result of a massive asteroid, but could they have been flooded by a giant wave of chocolate? Join the madness as we create delicious dino discoveries with chocolate, and learn about the process of fossilisation.
3.30pm, Special Exhibitions Gallery, free with your Dinosaur Eggs and Babies admission

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