Dinosaur event at Bilston gallery
People are being encouraged to pay a visit to a T-Rex as a family-friendly day dedicated to all things dinosaur comes to Bilston later this month.
Bilston Craft Gallery is celebrating dinosaurs on Saturday, May 27 from 11am to 3pm.
Young visitors can meet a life-like T-Rex, dress up and have their faces painted just like a dinosaur, and find out lots of fascinating dinosaur facts with the amazing Dr. Fossil.
The day has been organised to celebrate the gallery’s current, free Discover Dinosaurs exhibition featuring Beaky, Tiny and Barry - the pet names for the huge dinosaur models on show.
Marguerite Nugent, City of Wolverhampton Council manager for arts and culture said: “The Discover Dinosaurs exhibition has already attracted hundreds of visitors. This Bank Holiday weekend family fun day features an amazing T-Rex model, which comes to life, as well as lots of great child-friendly activities.”
Among the popular exhibits in the current show is Stan – a model of a T Rex skull measuring almost two metres long. Joining Stan is Tiny, a not-so small animatronic baby T Rex which hunts for a herbivore creature as it would have done when creatures like it walked the earth millions of years ago.
Barry the Baryonyx gives visitors the chance to learn about one of the largest fish-eating dinosaurs. Its crocodile-like head and dangerous claws made it a master hunter of rivers and lakes around 125 million years ago.
Flying above the gallery space is the two metre-long head of Beaky - a Pterosaur, which was neither a bird or a bat but a reptile which soared above the land more than 200 million years ago.
Fast-forward to the Ice Age and meet Fluffy, a full-size mammoth, which towers above the other models. The Discover Dinosaurs exhibition is free and runs until August 13.
Bilston Gallery, based on Mount Pleasant, is open Thursday to Saturday from noon to 4pm.
The day costs £5 per child, £2.50 for adults, and children aged two years and under go free.
Visitors can either buy tickets in advance at The Ticket Factory or simply turn up on the day to make a cash payment for entry.
Tickets are available at www.theticketfactory.com/midlandboxoffice/online/tickets/family/dinosaur-family-fun-day/. Or call the gallery on 01902 552 507.
