Great Yarmouth's Time and Tide Museum's new exhibition is taking people on a journey from fossil to film to show how dinosaurs have been such an enduring part of popular culture.
Dinosaurium: Re-imagined Creatures is now at the museum until Saturday, September 21.
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The Time and Tide Museum on Blackfriars's Road. (Image: Denise Bradley)The exhibit features detailed models of skulls displayed alongside real-life fossils and specimens of creatures that lived alongside long-extinct reptiles, as well as drawings and models of mythological beats inspired by the land before time.
There is classic movie memorabilia, including a reproduction of John Hammond’s iconic cane from Jurassic Park.
A spotlight is also shone on Victorian fossil hunters, including Norfolk’s remarkable geologist, Anna Gurney.
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A fossilised hippo tooth, found in Cromer by Anna Gurney, a Norfolk Victorian curator. (Image: Denise Bradley)This family-friendly touring exhibition, on loan from Hampshire Cultural Trust, examines the fact and fiction of our obsession with dinosaurs and showcases some of Norfolk's natural history and geology collections that have never been on display before.
Exhibitions officer Nat Fairweather said: "This will be a truly lovely, informative and fun experience for all the family.
"You don't have to be a dinosaur expert to enjoy this exhibition - just come along to find out something new. We have a beautiful collection on display, which is sure to fascinate everyone."
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A mini Snap Dragon from the Strangers Museum on display at the Time and Tide. (Image: Denise Bradley)Fantastic fossils on display include an ichthyosaur from Dorset’s Jurassic coast, a megalodon tooth and a footprint of an iguanodon, while life-size replicas of a tarbosaurus skull (a close cousin of the T-Rex) and a protoceratops or ‘first horned face’ will bring visitors up close to these impressive beasts.
The world of film and popular culture has always been less concerned with accuracy and more with the fear factor of dinosaurs and you can find out what Jurassic Park's terrifying velociraptors were actually like in real life.
![Great Yarmouth Mercury: Nat Fairweather, exhibitions officer at the Time and Tide Museum, with a Tarbosaurus replica skull.]( "Great Yarmouth Mercury: Nat Fairweather, exhibitions officer at the Time and Tide Museum, with a Tarbosaurus replica skull.")
Nat Fairweather, exhibitions officer at the Time and Tide Museum, with a Tarbosaurus replica skull. (Image: Denise Bradley)Visitors will be able to see replica posters and a reproduction of the iconic cane used by John Hammond (played by Richard Attenborough) from Jurassic Park, which famously imagines bringing dinosaurs back to life by retrieving their DNA from mosquitos fossilised in amber.
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