The Dino Park

A journey back into the time:

"When Dinosaurs Ruled the World"!

OUR DINOSAURS and the whole DinoPark Team awaits YOU!

If you are looking for a safe, fun environment to enhance your children´s learning, then Dino Park is the best place to go!

The Dino Park, offers an exciting action packed day for all ages!

Our museums educators offer full-day "Come on in" activities:

• Treasure hunt: Sieve for : REAL fossil sharkteeth
  

• Dig up!: Excavate a 25m long dinosaur skeleton
  

• Sense: Test your knowlege and identify dinos by touch?!

• Pug a Dino: Work like a REAL dinosaur sculptor 

• Watch: Exciting dinosaur documentations in our dinocinemas
  

• Discover: Examine fossils under the microscope
  

• Draw a Dino: Draw your favorite "Thunder-Lizard"!

• Adventures: Experience our dino adventure playground
  

• Discovery corner: Explore REAL dinosaur fossils
  

• Live preparation lab: Watch REAL LIVE Preparators
  

The activities listed above are "Come on in" activities and free of charge (included in the admission charge).
The activity: "Gold panning" is a instructed activity and charged with 3,00 €  (each person) .

The Natural Monument Dinosaur Tracks

The large 3.500m² hall which protects over 250 original Dinosaur tracks from erosion is in the center of our Park. Gigantic dinosaurs like Diplodocus, lived here in the Cretaceous period about 140 million years ago. These dinosaurs left their footprints in the mud of a shallow tropical lagoon. Fossilized in millions of years these amazing tracks of an ancient time survived until now! The tracks were discovered in 1975. Due to the acknowledged international importance of these tracks for paleontology, the protection hall was build to preserve these rare dinosaur footprints. The Trackmakers are three different types of dinosaurs: large herbivores like Diplodocus, smaller herbivores like Iguanodon and carnivores like the dangerous Allosaurus.
The Special exhibition "ARCHAEOPTERYX"
Germanys most famous fossil

This exhibition concerned with the evolution of the "Feathered Dragons". And indicates that a small group of carnivorous dinosaurs, developed to modern birds.

The special exhibition "THE IGUANODON" Tooth of the Iguana

Discovered in 1822 and described three years later by English geologist Gideon Mantell, Iguanodon was the second dinosaur formally named, after Megalosaurus. Scientific understanding of Iguanodon has evolved over time as new information has been obtained from the fossils. The numerous specimens of this genus, including nearly complete skeletons from two well-known bonebeds, have allowed researchers to make informed hypotheses regarding many aspects of the living animal, including feeding, movement, and social behaviour.

The special exhibition: "THE HUMAN EVOLUTION"

The Human evolution is the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of homo sapiens as a distinct species from other hominans, great apes and placental mammals. It is the subject of a broad scientific inquiry that seeks to understand and describe how this change occurred. The study of human evolution encompasses many scientific disciplines, most notably physical anthropology, linguistics and genetics. The term "human", in the context of human evolution, refers to the genus Homo, but studies of human evolution usually include other hominins, such as the australopithecines.

The special exhibition: "DISCOVERING DINOSAURS" and Dinosaur Live Preparation Lab

Don´t miss it! Experience dinosaur research up close! At our Fossil Preparation Lab in the Dino Park, any guest has the opportunity to see REAL LIVE Paleontologists and Preparators working on REAL DEAD dinosaurs. Gaze at the latest research results of our own dinosaur excavations! (Europasaurus and Camp Iguanodon) Get up close to original dinosaur fossils! Touch a REAL Dinosauregg and many other dinosaur exhibits!