Museum Features Interactive Life As a Dinosaur Exhibit
Museum Features Interactive Life As a Dinosaur Exhibit
“Life as a Dinosaur,” an interactive, hands-on exhibit exploring what it was like to begin life in a small egg and become the biggest animal ever to walk on land, is on display at the Georgia Southern Museum through December.
Curated by Dr. Michael D’Emic from Stony Brook University and Dr. Katy Smith, Georgia Southern Museum Curator of Paleontology, the exhibit features some of the most recent work and research about dinosaurs in the paleontology field. Applicable to all ages, the exhibit includes a “costume” section where participants can try on different dinosaur body parts, an educational coloring station for children, egg casts designed to touch and feel, as well as a section for exploring trackways (dinosaur footprints). Participants can even hear the re-created sound of a Parasaurolophus, a plant eating, long-crested, duck-billed dinosaur, through sound generation technology.
“We’re not only looking at dinosaur fossils, but the flesh on the fossils. We want to show what these guys were like as living animals,” said Dr. Smith.
Administrative Director of the Museum, Brent Tharp, says, “People come into the Museum and see the Mosasaur and think it’s a dinosaur. The running joke is, the Mosasaur isn’t a dinosaur, but Gus is!”
Admission to The Georgia Southern Museum is $2 per person. There is no charge for children ages three and under. In addition, the Museum is free to all students and members. Everyone is welcome to visit on Free Museum Saturdays, hosted on the last Saturday of each month.
The Museum is open during the following hours:
- Tuesday-Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- Saturday - Sunday 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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