Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice™ opens September 21.

Join us on a pre-historic journey in the West Wing gallery.

Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice transports you back to the Cretaceous Period (145 – 65 million years ago), the time when dinosaurs last lived on earth. 

Go face-to-face with the prehistoric world and meet dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes. The exhibit, created for children ages 3 – 10, features two distinct environments and a variety of activities. A Field Research Station allows your children to step into the role of paleontologist by uncovering fossils with brushes and creating drawings of the dinosaur environment using fossil rubbings and tracings. 

The steamy “Land of Fire” connects you with prehistoric home of the Triceratops and T-Rex. Circle the land in insect costumes and buzz through a volcano with oozing lava. Work through a swampy bog and identify an ecosystem of animals and plants. No coats are needed for a trip across the “Land of Ice” where visitors meet two dinosaurs, a Troodon and Edmontosaurus, who made their homes in the cold climate of Alaska. Activities include: climbing rocky steps, breezing down an icy slide, and hoping across stepping stones in an icy river. 

Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice utilizes new research about climates in which dinosaurs were able to survive and thrive. The discovery of numerous species of dinosaurs in the arctic is causing scientists to reconsider old theories about dinosaurs only living in tropical climates. It is now known that many dinosaurs, including Edmontosaurus and Troodon, lived in cold weather climates for at least part of the year.