Dinosaurs

Exhibitions

Ichthyosaur

New Discoveries

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Dinosaur Hall

Step Into Our Award-winning Exhibition, and Enter the Age of Dinosaurs

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Dueling Dinos

See a Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops locked in battle.

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Dinosaur Lab

Watch real scientists prepare fossils every day.

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Events

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Three T-rex dinosaur skeletons in different sizes

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Tours & Activities

Dinosaur Hall Tour

Explore our Dinosaur Hall with a Museum Educator to learn more about the fascinating world of dinosaurs.

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weekly

1:00 pm

Monday–Thursday

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Tours & Activities

Dinosaur Hall Tour

Explore our Dinosaur Hall with a Museum Educator to learn more about the fascinating world of dinosaurs.

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weekly

1:00 pm

Monday–Thursday

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Tours & Activities

Dinosaur Hall Tour

Explore our Dinosaur Hall with a Museum Educator to learn more about the fascinating world of dinosaurs.

Learn more

weekly

1:00 pm

Monday–Thursday

Puppeteer with long-neck dinosaur puppet and triceratops puppet in front of a diorama in the North American Mammal Hall

Dinosaur Encounters Sensory-Friendly Show

Fun, educational, and interactive, Dinosaur Encounters features NHM's life-size dinosaur puppets. Our sensory-friendly performance provides a warm welcome to guests who need a little less stimulating environment and the opportunity to move around during the show.

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monthly on Saturday

11:30 am

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Tours & Activities

Dinosaur Hall Tour

Explore our Dinosaur Hall with a Museum Educator to learn more about the fascinating world of dinosaurs.

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weekly

1:00 pm

Monday–Thursday

Stories

Two portrait photographs next to a green dinosaur against a pink background

Dino Fest Discussion

Jurassic Giants: The Largest Organisms on the Morrison Formation Floodplain and the Sauropods That Ate Them

Closeup of light green skeleton head with neck and top of torso in the background

Meet LA's Gnewest Star: Gnatalie the Green Dino

NHM Commons—the Museum’s new wing and community hub—will welcome visitors this fall with, among other wonders, the newest and biggest fossil Angeleno: Gnatalie.

Stump the Paleontologist

What did dinosaurs do all day? How did they lay eggs on the ground without cracking them? How were dinosaurs created? Our Dinosaur Institute scientists answer visitors’ tricky, probing questions in this video.