Permanent Exhibition
Dinosaur Gallery
The largest Dinosaur Gallery in Europe
With a surface area of over 3000 m2 and dozens of specimens, the Dinosaur Gallery is the largest room in Europe entirely devoted to dinosaurs, their discovery, lives and evolution.
Dinosaurs first appeared nearly 230 million years ago, at the end of the Triassic period. During the Jurassic period, they multiplied and diversified, colonizing every continent. They became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago. But did they really disappear? We’re not so sure!
In the gallery you can see how the Olorotitan died, learn how fossils are formed and challenge a virtual Pachycephalosaurus. Listen to the Parasaurolophus’s scream, find out more about cladistics and give each hadrosaurus its own neck frill.
Visit the Dinosaur Gallery with our App sauria or the podcasts Be My Guide (in French or Dutch).
- All ages
- Approximately 2 hours
- Included in the entry ticket
- Points 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 on the map
Remarkable Elements
The Bernissart Iguanodons
Thirty relatively complete iguanodon skeletons were discovered 322m underground in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium at the end of the 19th century.
Ben the Plateosaurus
Plateosaurus lived around 210 million years ago. Measuring 6.4m long, they were some of the biggest dinosaurs from the Triassic period (their predecessors were less than 1.5m long).
Stan the T. rex
The specimen shown in our room is a replica of Stan, the largest and most complete male Tyrannosaurus rex known today (12.2m long and 3.7m high).
Information direct from the experts
Who is best suited to tell you more about dinosaurs? Undoubtedly the men and women who discovered and studied them!
Feathered Dinosaurs
Not all dinosaurs are extinct! Birds are the descendants of theropods (sometimes they are even considered to be dinosaurs).
Mont-Dieu Meteorite
A fragment of a meteorite was discovered shattered in pieces near the forest of Mont-Dieu in the north of France...
