Every step you take into the interactive Dinosphere exhibit at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is met with thundering footsteps of dinosaurs, felt and heard but unseen. The ground shakes under their weight, just as it did way back when.
A T. rex skeleton at the newly expanded Dinosphere exhibit, which opened this spring at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.Down past the sauropod skeletons, their necks snaking along a mural of an ancient plain, feathery foliage bursting from the wall, just as it did eons ago.Down past the frothy ferns sprouting from the wall, a misty herd of giant creatures wandering in the distance.
Under the dome of a vivid Cretaceous sky, dinosaurs big and small fight and eat, soar and snore. Bite marks on dinosaur leg bones show how they fought. Fossilized impressions of foliage indicate the types of plants that provided shade and food to lumbering triceratops. In a nearby alcove, kids can excavate for bones at a simulated dig site. A slice of simulated fossil-studded hillside serves two purposes: it shows the depth at which dinosaur bones are buried and enables children to scrape artifacts from the pretend hillside, just like real scientists do.
“You can rub the texture of a dinosaur’s skin,” she said, demonstrating by running a crayon over a piece of vinyl cast in a reptilian texture. Take that colored-in dinosaur outline and scan it into the art lab’s animation machine and your very own dinosaur will pop onto the wall-sized screen and chase other visitors’ hand-decorated dinosaurs through a fantastical Jurassic landscape.
“You can memorize encyclopedic amounts of knowledge about dinosaurs and being an expert is really, really fun,” Stearns said, reeling off a list of candidates for second place in the arena of trivia mastery. “Outer space, animals — there’s a handful of topics where you see kids practicing accumulating massive amounts of knowledge, organizing it, and showing off.
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