At 12 metres long, 3.6 metres high and more than 66 million years old, Museums Victoria’s latest visitor – Victoria the T. rex – is preparing to make history and wow the crowds in an exclusive new exhibition.
Discovered in 2013 in South Dakota, USA, the massive T. rex fossil is made up of 199 bones, including a skull that weighs 139 kilograms. The aptly named fossil actually takes its name from the Dino Lab in Victoria, Canada where it was studied and restored.
This iconic fossil is the centrepiece of the upcoming exhibition – the first time a real T. rex fossil has been exhibited in Victoria.
The exhibition will feature interactive installations including augmented reality and multisensory installations – taking visitors on a journey back 66 million years to the Cretaceous period, revealing the T. rex’s natural habitat and the latest discoveries about this famous and feared species.
More than two million people of all ages have visited Melbourne Museum to see the permanent exhibition Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs, featuring Horridus, the world’s most complete Triceratops fossils. Victoria the T. rex is set to marvel visitors of all ages and delight families just in time for the school holidays.
For the duration of the T. rex exhibition, Melbourne Museum will be the only place in the world where visitors can see one of the finest examples of both a real T. rex fossil and a real Triceratops fossil under one roof.
Victoria the T. Rex opens Friday, 28 June. For more information or to buy tickets, visit the Melbourne Museum website