Exhibition of Dinosaurs: VDNH Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod

The fact that on Earth before us millions of years ago lived huge and terrible dinosaurs, thanks to cartoons, toys and other parks of the Jurassic, they know today without exception. For fans of huge creatures, an exhibition of dinosaurs was organized.

Feeling the genuine interest of people to this, especially among the population of primary school age, the popularizers of science from commerce quickly organized tours of the world's cities dinosaurs. Last year, one of the largest of them got to Nizhny Novgorod, and then to the capital.

Dinosaurs in Nizhny Novgorod. The exhibition that strikes

In addition to arriving to the organizers, the exhibition really carries a huge educational charge both to small spectators, and to their parents, grandfathers and grandmothers. It allows to know that these are not enlarged copies of the heroes of adventure films, but recreated and executed in full size thanks to the science of paleontology, really living on our planet beings.

The event was held in 2014. This exhibition of dinosaurs made a furor among the locals. From the first of February to the 31st of March, anyone could see with their own eyes the ancient lizards.

There is such a science

Paleontology studies and systematizes fossilized petrified animals and plants of ancient times, called geological periods. This allows us to understand the process of evolution of life on Earth. Scientists have learned from the remnants to collect the skeletons of long-disappeared living things, and later to restore their external image, as close to the really existing species. The exhibition of dinosaurs was organized only on real data.

The well-known general public in our country was a paleontologist - professor and Doctor of Biological Sciences - Ivan Antonovich Efremov, who for many years excavated dinosaurs in the Mongolian Gobi Desert. He is much more famous as a Soviet science fiction writer who wrote the most famous works: The Andromeda Nebula, The Razor's Edge, and The Thais of Athens.

Exhibits as living

At the exhibitions were presented more than twenty kinds of dinosaurs, giving a general idea of how these mysterious, in many ways seemingly unreal, creatures from the distant past of our planet looked like in nature. Struck almost all dinosaurs in Nizhny Novgorod. The exhibition was fascinating with its scale and plausibility.

Here are some of the ancient creatures represented at the exhibition:

• Tyrannosaur Rex, probably the most familiar on film.
• Triceratops, which has a huge horny skull.
• The Achillobator, which was discovered in Mongolia quite recently - in 1989.
• Pterodactyl and Pteranodon, giant flying lizards.

The exhibition of dinosaurs will amaze everyone who wants to see how these monsters truly looked.

Covered with a multicolored silicone skin, more like a futuristic armor with muscles rolling under it, making strange sounds and screams, dinosaurs equipped with hidden electric drives and movement sensors, wiggling limbs and tails, opening terrible mouths. One of them is born from an egg. Such realism causes a slight rush, turning into nervous laughter, even in some adult visitors. But children either are not at all afraid of dinosaurs or instantly adapt after the first fleeting fright and stretch to touch the exhibits.

All exhibits are made by real masters of their craft in the People's Republic of China. Descendants of the creators of the Terracotta Army tried to achieve the closest resemblance to dinosaurs, using the knowledge accumulated by paleontologists and their own unique skills. That is why the exhibition of dinosaurs in Nizhny was so popular.

Where to look for an exhibition

Prior to the famous Nizhny Novgorod Fair and no less famous exhibition of our achievements, the fair visited Cheboksary, Yekaterinburg, Gelendzhik.

From March 31, 2015 until January 17 next year (according to the organizers' assurances) an exhibition of dinosaurs takes place at VDNH in Moscow. It features more than 30 exhibits. For information: a half-hour excursion on weekdays will cost adults in 550 rubles, children in 450 rubles, on weekends at 50 rubles. expensive. There are discounts: for a family with two children 1800 and 2000 rubles. respectively. For groups of 15 people, consisting of children and pensioners with one of their attendants, 350 and 400 rubles. Per person. Veterans of war and invalids with one accompanying are free.

I would like to hope that such exhibitions will surprise and amaze children and adults in many cities of Russia and will give a desire to expand their knowledge about the history of the Earth.