- Public
- Organized by Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
- Sunday 15 September 2019, 01:30 PM
Storytime on Dino Island at the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
Informations
till Sunday 15 September 2019 01:45 PM
Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
- Event's organizer
Crystal Palace Park, in south London, is home to an extraordinary collection of statues depicting dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. These were built in the 1850s by the sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. They were the world’s first attempts to create life-size, scientifically accurate models of beasts known only from fossils. The statues were based on brand-new, fragmentary evidence, plus the best scientific thinking of the day. More than 30 statues were placed in the park. The...