MYSTERIOUS DINOSAURS SUMMER Prepared for the Royal Manitoba Museum by ExhibitsRex Inc.

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1 NT GIA MYSTERIOUS DINOSAURS SUMMER 2017 Prepared for the Royal Manitoba Museum by ExhibitsRex Inc.

2 Mesozoic Forest Exit into the dense and noisy Mesozoic forest, concealing only in part a host of full-sized robotic dinosaurs, and Jurassic Park s beautifully sculpted dinosaurs. Learn what plants dinosaurs dined on, handle the leaves and cones, fresh and fossilized while comparing the nutritional value of each measured in smelly methane tubes full of cow digestive fluid. And how did giant dinosaurs digest? New discoveries overturn the myths of stomach stones. Test for yourself, with mock-rocks in a washing-machine stomach vat.

3 Velociraptor from Jurassic Park

4 The Exhibit Lives of the Giant Mysterious Dinosaurs debuts in Canada, the largest touring exhibition of dinosaurs, centered on the behavior and growth of the biggest animals ever to walk the Earth. Two dozen dinosaurs up to 20 meters long, and full-sized recreated animatronic dinosaurs up to 15 meters long loom over visitors. Among the exhibition s key attractions: The biggest of all meat-eating dinosaurs Skeleton and full-sized recreation of the longest necked animal The only touring display of the original Jurassic Park dinosaurs. The largest bone in the world

5 Themes The largest dinosaurs planteating titans grew exponentially larger than any creatures before or since. Why? How? Did they chew their food? Grow as hot-blooded dinosaurs? Breathe as we do? And the meateaters how hard could they chew? How smart were they? New interdisciplinary research reveals the answers via experiments visitors can view and recreate from pumping air through avian-style lungs and blood up to towering necks, to grinding coarse food in a massive vat of a gut. Examine the cell evidence that demonstrates dinosaurs were hot-blooded. Try out different foods on a dinosaur and discover where it found the best nutrition. Touch, dig, and prepare actual fossils. This is a uniquely interactive and atmospheric dinosaur exhibit on the cutting edge of dinosaur research.

6 Mamenchisaur

7 Advisors Dr. Rodolfo Coria, Museo Carmen Funes, Plaza Huincul, Argentina

8 Features 10 Robotic Dinosaurs 5 Jurassic Park Dinosaurs 5 Videos on excavations, communication, birth and feeding 10 Interactive stations

9 Facts Page For Royal Manitoba Museum, Summer 2017 From Exhibitsrex, Inc. Size: 10,000 square feet Ceiling Heights Required: 13 feet* *one 15 foot-high dinosaur and two 25 foot-high dinosaurs to be placed in atrium Conditions: Install and install: Transportation: No special environmental requirements 2 installers from Exhibitor, 1 robot technician 5 trained personnel from Venue Scissor lift required. Install 7 days, De-Install 5 days Round-trip, 4 trucks from Philadelphia, 1 from Los Angeles

10 Walkthrough Begin your exhibit experience in the midst of a five-minute wide-screen video saga of dinosaur discovery and research from Argentina to China, home to nearly all the rare and dramatic specimens on display.

11 Tyrannosaurus Robot

12 Jurassic Park T. rex Head

13 Behavior How DID these dinosaurs stand and how did they forage? The debate rages and both arguments are presented for visitor voting. And how to master challenge of pulsing blood up to a three story-high neck? Whack at the base of a giant thermometer and see how much force it takes to lift the red column to neck height for Mamenchisaur. And along with eggs and teeth to touch learn the latest scientific thoughts on dinosaur rearing, communication, and battle.

14 Fossil Nest

15 sauropod blood pressure test

16 Giganotosaurus Skull

17 Mural

18 Gallery of Giants Beyond lies the towering form of the rearing giant plant-eater Mamenchisaurus. The titan dominates a huge and activity-laden gallery.

19 The Parade of Dinosaur Life From what did the giant dinosaurs emerge? The winding fossil gallery leads us along the path of dinosaur evolution, from tiny pre-dinosaurian reptile to enormous herbivores and carnivores, all standing high on decorative plinths. Meet duckbills and horned dinosaurs, predators tiny and giant, from poodle-sized Velociraptor to the bigger-than-t. rex killer Giganotosaurus. Seven-meter wide original murals, globes and elegant signage connect the animals in time. So do more activities based upon the bones themselves.

20 Mamenchisaurus

21 Digging for Evidence In front of the largest dinosaur bone in the world, children join a preparator in freeing real dinosaur bone from rocky matrix. They peer into microscopic bone sections to determine how and why dinosaurs were warm-blooded. Last, a spacious dig pit, lined with dinosaur bones invites visitors to excavate to their heart s content, while others shop in the exhibit s dinosaur gift shop.

22 Dig Pit

23 A Giant Success The summer 2017 showing of Giant Mysterious Dinosaurs will be the exhibit s premiere Canadian showing. So how do we know Giant Mysterious Dinosaurs will be a blockbuster exhibition for the Royal Manitoba Museum? The proof lies not only in children s eternal fascination with dinosaurs but the overwhelming success of dinosaur exhibition venues internationally by ExhibitsRex. Our exhibits have drawn more than 5 million visitors, shattering attendance records, including nearly 400,000 visitors for Chinasaurs at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria. Giant Mysterious Dinosaurs is distinguished not only by its huge and varied dinosaur ensemble, but in its presentation of dramatic new findings, informed by the expertise of leading international researchers and dinosaur author and ExhibitsRex founder, Dino Don Lessem.

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