Di�y on Tour For Families

The Big Jurassic Classroom is delighted to be welcoming , the iconic from the Natural History Museum in London, to the . Dippy will be on display at the County Museum from 11th February 2018 until 7th May 2018 and everyone is welcome to come and see him! Book your free tickets at dorsetcountymuseum.org/dippy The Story of Di�y Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London

Inspired by this story, the Scottish born After the bones are prepared, the new industrialist funds another In 1898, a dinosaur thigh Diplodocus Carnegeii goes on display at expedition and Dippy is discovered in 1899. bone is discovered during a the Carnegie Museum of Natural History fossil expedition in Wyoming. in . After seeing a drawing Dippy at Carnegie's castle in Scotland, King Edward VII asked if he might have one. Carnegie made 10 plaster copies of his dinosaur giving them away to major museums across the world as a gesture of friendship and peace. In 1905, the skeleton was unveiled in London to public rapture. After nearly 100 years at the Natural History Museum in London, Dippy is now on tour travelling the UK!

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Composed from five At 26 metres long, dif ferent skeletons, Dippy is the length Dippy has 292 we don't know if of three minibuses! bones, 46 teeth Dippy belongs to the Dippy is male or and 70 vertebrae Sauropod family female which are the largest in his tail. land animals that ever lived.

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