Things to see

Casts of dinosaur skeletons

Cast of an Allosaurus dinosaur skeleton

Allosaurus was the most fearsome predator of the Jurassic period. Here you can see a cast of an Allosaurus skeleton found in the American mid-West where these dinosaurs lived about 140 million years ago. Allosaurus was a forerunner of Tyrannosaurus rex from the late Cretaceous period - it had larger forelegs with three toes, one more than T. rex.

Elsewhere on the gallery are models of the very different dinosaurs which lived in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, together with dinosaur bones, dinosaur droppings and rare dinosaur eggs.

You can find all our dinosaur objects in the Dinosaurs gallery on the fifth floor of the museum.

The dinosaurs are coming... here them roar!

Tickets are now on sale for 'Age of the Dinosaur' opening on 22 October 2011, featuring six life-like animatronic dinosaurs! Find out more and buy tickets online here.