Sponsorship Opportunities

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Visitors to the Climatron® in the summer of 2010 should be prepared The Missouri Botanical Garden to be scared – or amused, intrigued, perhaps more conversant on the expects to generate spectacular Mesozoic Era. Tucked into the interior of this lush indoor rain forest will interest in this fun and educational be sculptures of dinosaurs frozen in time. Their inches-long teeth in their menacing mouths, their outstretched claws, their bony, scaly spines, and exhibit, which coincides with the tails that could knock down a modest marching band will be on display Climatron’s 50th anniversary. from May through September, 2010. DinoQuest will be more than playful. It will deliver great opportunities We seek your company’s partnership to learn. Dinosaurs roamed the rain forest when they dominated the in presenting DinoQuest to the landscape 165 million years ago, so the simulated rain forest of the community. The partnership would Climatron is the ideal setting to bring these creatures back to life. The offer you an opportunity to raise exhibit will raise awareness about the threat to rain forests around the world and the implications of their loss to the global environment. awareness about what you do as well as provide perks to your employees DinoQuest also will explore paleobotany – a specialized area of botanical studies dedicated to investigating what plant life and their families. may have been like during the era in which dinosaurs lived. Paleobotanists work in archaeological sites and study fossil remains. They use evidence from the remains to determine what sort of vegetation grew millions of years ago and what the climate was like then. Such information may help us understand changes in today’s climate patterns. Among the installations: • The 30-foot-long Hypsibema, with a nest and 10 eggs. This sculpture was designed specifically for DinoQuest at the Garden because this dinosaur is believed to have inhabited this region of the country. Remains of the Hypsibema have been discovered in Missouri. • The fearsome, 32-foot-long Tyrannosaurus Rex. The Events associated with DinoQuest: T-Rex lived in North American forests 65 million years ago and snacked on smaller, plant-eating dinosaurs. Jurassic Dark An evening adventure in the Climatron and Doris I. Schnuck • The 30-foot-long Parasaurolophus featured with Children’s Garden, with special effects in the Climatron, Parasaurolophus babies. A researcher found a virtually May to September 30. intact skeleton of this herding dinosaur in Alberta, Canada, in 1922. Monster Movie Night • A flying dino suspended from above in the Garden’s Pack a picnic and enjoy a special outdoor evening viewing of Temperate House. The Quetzalcoatlus sculpture has an two monster movie cult classics with a dinosaur twist! imposing 30-foot-wide wingspan. The Garden will feature Mothra and Gamera versus Guiron from 7 p.m. to midnight on July 30. • Oviraptor, a 3.5-foot-long birdlike dinosaur, and an Oviraptor nest and eggs. • Four-foot-long Bambiraptors, also known as a flock of feathered Velociraptors, with nest and eggs. • Dino Egg Incubator, which appeared in Jurassic Park. Children can check out the incubator in a section At the center of the fun will be 15 installations, or dedicated to fun, including a dinosaur dig site, and groupings of sculptures. The Climatron will be the a fossil discovery project in which materials from an focal point of the exhibit, but it will extend beyond authentic (and secret!) fossil dig site in Missouri will be the walls of the geodesic dome. The neighboring available to touch and examine. Temperate House will feature a 30-foot-long flying • Thirty-inch dragonflies, a 10-foot sea scorpion, a dinosaur, and the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House four-foot Arthropleura (relative to the centipede), foot- will host giant scorpion sculptures, foot-long long cockroaches, and a host of other crawling, flying, cockroaches, and other bugs. nesting creatures, all of which will be on display at the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House in Chesterfield. Please partner with the Garden to make this exhibit a most memorable event for families in 2010.

The Really Big Dinos Installation Location Sponsorship Hypsibema with nest and eggs (a 30-foot-long, Garden exclusive) Children’s Garden entryway $6,000

Tyrannosaurus Rex (32 foot long) Re s e r v e d Climatron (north entrance) $5,000

Quetzalcoatlus, flying (30-foot wingspan) Re s e r v e d Temperate House (from ceiling) $5,000 Parasaurolophus and babies r v e d (30 foot long, laying, 2-foot-long babies) Re s e Climatron, south entrance $5,000

With your partnership, you will receive: • A plaque near the sculpture installation featuring • 15 complimentary admission passes for adults and the name of the installation and acknowledgement of 15 complimentary admission passes for children to your gift. DinoQuest. • Your organization’s name listed in association with the • 5 complimentary admission passes for adults and installation you sponsor on the Garden’s website, which 5 complimentary admission passes for children to receives 365,000 unique visitors each month. Jurassic Dark. • Your organization’s name listed in the Garden’s Bulletin, a • 10 complimentary Triceratops Tickets, which include one quarterly magazine sent to more than 37,000 households, admission pass to the giant insect sculpture display at as well as included in the Garden’s Annual Report. the Butterfly House, one ticket to DinoQuest, and one • Your organization’s name listed on all collateral ticket to the Doris I. Schnuck Children’s Garden. promotional pieces associated with DinoQuest. • 10 complimentary passes for general admission to the Missouri Botanical Garden. Medium-Sized Dinos (8 to 20 feet) Installation Location Sponsorship Syntarsus (12 feet) Climatron $3,000 Dimetrodon Climatron $3,000

Placerias Re s e r v e d Climatron $2,500

Postosuchus Re s e r v e d Climatron $2,500

With your partnership, you will receive: • A plaque near the installation featuring the name of the • 12 complimentary passes for adults and installation and acknowledgement of your gift. 12 complimentary passes for children to DinoQuest. • Your organization’s name listed in association with the • 5 complimentary passes for adults and 5 complimentary installation you sponsor on the Garden’s website, which passes for children to Jurassic Dark. receives 365,000 unique visitors each month. • 10 complimentary Triceratops Tickets. • Your organization’s name listed in the Garden’s Bulletin, a • 8 complimentary passes for general admission to the quarterly magazine sent to more than 37,000 households, Missouri Botanical Garden. as well as included in the Garden’s Annual Report. • Your organization’s name listed on all collateral promotional pieces associated with DinoQuest. Small but Formidable Dinos Installation Location Sponsorship Heterodontosaurus (bird-like dinosaur) Outside Climatron $2,500 Oviraptor, with nest and eggs Climatron $2,000 Compsognathus, with nest and eggs Climatron $2,000 Bambiraptors, with nest and eggs Climatron $1,500 Quetzalcoatlus babies Climatron $1,500 Sordes (three flying reptiles) Climatron $1,500 Rhamphorynchus Climatron $1,500

With your partnership, you will receive: • A plaque near the installation featuring the name of the installation and acknowledgement of your gift. • Your organization’s name listed in association with the installation you sponsor on the Garden’s website, which receives 365,000 unique visitors each month. • Your organization’s name listed on all collateral promotional pieces About the Sculptor associated with DinoQuest. Guy Darrough is a self-taught and • 10 complimentary passes for adults and 10 complimentary passes highly accomplished fossil collector, for children to DinoQuest. fossil preparation expert, and illustrator • 8 complimentary Triceratops Tickets. who has worked in paleontology and related areas for 40 years. He has collected and studied fossils in Canada, Morocco, and many parts of the United States. His technical and artistic skills in fossil preparation meet the highest museum standards. Specimens from his own exceptional collection are routinely loaned to museums for exhibition and for scientific studies. Guy’s accomplishments include amassing a premiere collection of Missouri fossils, making significant discoveries in paleontology and co-authoring the To discover and share knowledge about plants and their Journal of Paleontology. environment in order to preserve and enrich life. -mission of the Missouri Botanical Garden

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©2009 Missouri Botanical Garden Printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper. Please recycle. Photography by Jennifer Wolff q I/We will be a sponsor of the following pieces of DinoQuest: A Tropical Trek Through Time The Really Big Dinos Medium-Sized Dinos Small but Formidable Dinos q Hypsibema, nest, eggs—$6,000 q Syntarsus—$3,000 q Heterodontosaurus—$2,500 q Tyrannosaurus Rex—$5,000 Re s e r v e d q Dimetrodon—$3,000 q Oviraptor, nest, eggs—$2,500 q Quetzalcoatlus, flying—$5,000 Re s e r v e d q Placerias—$2,500 Re s e r v e d q Compsognathus, nest, eggs—$2,500

v e d q Parasaurolophus and babies—$5,000 Re s e r v e d q Postosuchus—$2,500 Re s e r q Bambiraptors, nest, eggs—$2,500 q Jurassic Bugs—$7,000 q Quetzalcoatlus babies—$1,500 q Sordes—$1,500 q Rhamphorynchus—$1,500 Company Name:______

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Please contact Sharon Mertzlufft, Senior Vice President of Institutional Advancement, with questions or requests for additional information, at (314) 577-9495 or [email protected]