Visit Peterborough| Guess whats coming? Dinosaurs Peterborough Cathedral

This summer …Dinosaurs Peterborough Cathedral

Peterborough Cathedral has announced today that it is to display the Natural History Museum’s touring exhibition, T. rex: The Killer Question, during the summer of 2020. Dinosaurs Peterborough Cathedral is expected to be a huge hit amongst families. The boys and I can not wait to meet the range of Dinosaurs that will be on display.

The display will be installed in the early sixteenth century New Building at the east end of the Cathedral and is made up of 14 dinosaurs, nine of which are animatronic models. Entry will be by ticket only, and these will go on sale in the new year. You can see some of the dinosaurs featured in the exhibition in the pictures.

Amongst the collection is a moving, three-quarter size T. rex, as well as life-size T. rex skeleton and a 12-metre-long static model of the creature. Models of other dinosaurs, such as Saurornitholestes, Ankylosaurus, Deinonychus and Edmontosaurues, will also be shown alongside T. rex for comparison, so that visitors can consider the ‘killer question’: Was T. rex a ferocious hunter or a mere scavenger?

The exhibition encourages visitors to look closer at T. rex – its size, the power in its legs, the length of its arms, the sharpness of its teeth, its keen sense of smell – and how they think the animal lived. Was its physique best suited to catching and slaughtering live prey or to stealing carcasses?

This entertaining and engaging exhibition for the entire family presents the fossil evidence, scientific interpretations, and exciting scenes with lifelike animatronics to challenge what we know about the real T. rex.It is planned that the Dinosaurs Peterborough Cathedral will be on show from 20^th July to 31^st August and tickets will go on sale in the new year. The Cathedral’s regular programme of services will carry on as usual.