July 19, 2011
Los Angeles’ New Dinosaur Hall
The opening of a new dinosaur hall is always cause for celebration, and the new permanent exhibition at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County sounds wonderful. Buzz about the new displays—particularly a trio of Tyrannosaurus growth stages—has been growing for months. Now the public can finally see the exhibits for themselves.
I’m a little too far away from L.A. to just bop over there and check out the new exhibits, but fortunately, other paleo bloggers have got you covered there. A Central Coast Paleontologist has a hyperbolic review, replete with videos from the museum, and David Orr at Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs has collected a number of Flickr snapshots taken by others at the opening event. The exhibit certainly looks wonderful, and I will certainly share my thoughts on it when I eventually make my way out to the west coast.
Have you seen the new NHM dinosaur exhibit? Share your reactions in the comments.
Sign up for our free email newsletter and receive the best stories from Smithsonian.com each week.
3 Comments »
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI
hyperbolic, eh? most other people seemed to like my coverage. meh, I’m obviously an amateur. thanks for the shout out though.
That video has some great juicy shots. But the voice-over strikes me as a bit… overdramatic? pathos-driven?
Thanks for the heads up to these articles!
@Doug – are you sure “hyperbolic” is negative? Seems to me to be a descriptive way of pointing to your post. (Thanks for the images, by the way – LA is far too far away for me)
well i have only heard “hyperbolic” in a negative sense. i guess it could have a positive ring to it as well.