GIANT MYSTERIOUS DINOSAURS

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2 GIANT MYSTERIOUS DINOSAURS The world s most current, interactive and imposing dinosaur exhibition. How much did giant dinosaurs eat? How did they breathe? How did they grow? How did giant dinosaurs attack and defend? How big could dinosaurs get? - 2 -

3 GIANT DINOSAURS shows the largest and strangest dinosaur specimens ever unearthed; it is an exhibit of singular majesty, drama, current news, activity involvement and distinctiveness of theme - unlike any other natural history exhibit yet produced. Dinosaurs grew larger than any other creatures on Earth as tall as five-story buildings, as heavy as 50 elephants. They inspire awe and fascination like no other life, past or present, and yet the largest of them all have never toured are never seen in their true, colossal scale, nor understood for their singular niche in evolution. After an enormous success ( in the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia (USA) this 750 to 1200 m 2 highly interactive and dramatically immersive exhibition is available for touring from January 2013, featuring the world s largest dinosaurs, and focusing on new research into the behavioral, engineering and metabolic implications of gigantic size

4 Many are familiar with dinosaurs like the brontosaurus or the Tyrannosaurus Rex, but have you heard of the Mamenchisaurus, the longest-necked animal that ever lived or the Giganotosaurus, the world s largest carnivore dinosaur discovered today, even 10 percent bigger than the famous T. Rex? - 2 -

5 GIANT DINOSAURS features two dozen enormous and rare cast skeletons from museums worldwide, highly accurate sculptures. This exclusive exhibition get visitors up-close-and-personal with GIGANTIC dinosaurs, as long as 20 m, excavated from such remote regions as Patagonia and the Gobi Desert of Inner Mongolia. Highlights include the world premiere of a cast skeleton of the never-before-displayed Mapusaurus, 65 million year-old dinosaur eggs, and the latest scientific evidence of how dinosaurs grew so large

6 In addition to these incredible skeletons on display, visitors can admire and experience full-sized robotics, large-scale innovative image projections and fully realized dioramas who are complemented by handson activities whether weighing, measuring, estimating size, making nutritional analyses, selecting food sources, or constructing behavioral scenarios for birth, development and survival. Visitors can even get an opportunity to dig for and handle genuine fossils! - 4 -

7 EXHIBIT ELEMENTS / DIMENSIONS L x B x H GIANT DINOSAURS is composed under the direction of Don Lessem, dinosaur exhibitor, author, philanthropist, educator and advisor of the movie Jurassic Park. He sponsored and managed the excavation, preparation and mounting of the world s largest dinosaurs as well as the most successful and largest of traveling museum dinosaur exhibitions which have been featured in such venues as the American Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum, the Pacific Science Center, Arizona Science Center, the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and more than 20 other major museums worldwide. Leading researchers into the behavior and physiology of giant theropods and sauropods are scientific advisors to the exhibit: Professor Rodolfo Coria of Museo Carmen Funes in Argentina, Dr. Philip Currie of the University of Alberta, and Dr. Martin Sander of the University of Bonn. - Albertosaurus skull 1m22 long - Allosaurus skull 1m22 long - Amargasaurus head and neck 1m43 x 1m25 x 2m74 - Argentinosaurus Vertebra 1m37 x 0m92 x 1m67 - Dilophosaurus skeleton 4m32 x 1m68 x 2m74 - Giganotosaurus skeleton 11m58 x 4m27 x 3m65 - Jingshanosaurus fossil bones (3 vitrines 0m60 x 1m22 ) - Lufengosaurus fossil skeleton 2m85 x 1m12 x 2m28 - Mamenchisaurus juvenile skeleton (rearing) 5m50 x 1m37 x 7m31 - Mamenchisaurus juvenile skeleton 7m24 x 2m28 x 2m74 - Mamenchisaurus adult skeleton 19m80 x 1m83 x 3m81 - Mamenchisaurus fossil wall 10m97 x 1m98 (in 5 sections) - Mapusaurus juvenile skeleton 4m98 x 1m43 x 2m08 - Mapusaurus skull (fleshed out on one side) 2m23 x 0m76 x 1m37 - Monolophosaurus skeleton 3m96 x 2m03 x 2m39 - Oviraptor skeleton 2m05 x 0m79 (base width) x 1m78 (height on base) - Oviraptor robot - Plateosaurus skeleton 4m93 x 1m42 x 1m90 - Protoceratops skeleton 1m78 x 0m74 (base width) x 1m65 (on base) - Protoceratops robot - Saurolophus robot - Tyrannosaurus rex skull 1m68 lang - Tsintaosaurus skeleton 7m62 x 1m47 x 2m90 - Velociraptor skeleton 1m52 x 0m76 x 1m65 (on base, 2m54 high) - Yangchuanosaurus skeleton 10m36-5 -

8 - 1m20 x 1m20 vitrine: Deinonychus skull - Velociraptor skull - Megaraptor claw - Utahraptor claw - Allosaurus claw Therizinosaur claw - T. rex claw - Velociraptor claw - T. rex tooth - Giganotosaurus tooth - Spinosaurus tooth - 1m20 x 1m20 vitrine: Therizinosaur replica embryo in egg - Hadrosaur fossil nest - Oviraptor fossil nest - 1m20 x 1m20 vitrine: Aepyornis egg - Hypselosaurus egg - Maiasaura repro - Touch skins one meat eater and one plant eater 0m45 x 0m45 each; bases are each 0m51 wide and 0m36 deep - Adult Hadrosaur femur 1m06 L - Juvenile Hadrosaur femur 0m79 L - Compsagnathus plaque 0m32 x 0m41 (HxW) - Caudipteryx plaque 0m51 x 0m77 (HxW) - Sinosauropteryx plaque 0m46 x 0m69 (HxW) - Archaeopteryx plaque 0m37 x 0m45 (HxW) - Sinornis plaque 0m22 x 0m31 (HxW) - Food baskets (variety of 0m30 x 0m30 x 0m30 baskets) - Dig pit 2m50 x 3m70-2 or 3 Activity (stamping, rubbing, coloring) tables with chairs - Dig video and monitor - Nigersaurus CT scan video and monitor - Tyrannosaurus rex CT scan video and monitor - Extinction Video and monitor - 3 Landscape murals Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous 5m80 x 3m20 each - 3 Dinosaur landscape murals Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, 6m10 x 2m74 - Argentinosaurus mural 2m75 x 3m05 - Giganotosaurus mural 2m75 x 3m05-3 Time period banners - Sound foot pads - Large copy panels - Sign stands - Small specimen signs - Plinths and surrounds - Stanchions with bamboo Possible additions: - Tarbosaurus robotic 8m53 long, 4m57 high - Mamenchisaurus sculpture, 21m33 long, 7m32 high - 6 -

9 Conditions for having on loan and presenting this exhibition - Ceiling height 4 meter or more - This exhibition, composed of several connecting modules for venues of 750 to 1200 m 2, can be booked exclusively from MUSEUMSPARTNER, which delivers it turn-key. The following elements are included in the rent: - Having on loan the exhibited objects for a limited period of time - The design and mobile structure of the exhibition - The skeletons, display cases, giant format images / murals, reconstructions, multimedia installations and interactives - The transport, unloading, unpacking, assembly, dismantling, packing and loading of all elements of the exhibition to the exhibition venue and back - The insurance of all elements of the exhibition and exhibited objects - All costs for couriers related to the exhibition - Texts in 2 languages - Merchandising The party having the exhibition on loan is responsible for the following performances: - The lighting of the exhibition - The heating and air-conditioning of the exhibition room and/or cases - The normal cleaning and maintenance works for the entire duration of the exposition A precondition for giving the exhibition on loan is the submitting of a current and valid facility report by the borrower to MUSEUMSPARTNER, which in turn will present it to Don Lessem and the insurance company, which will have to approve of it. Created & produced by DON LESSEM Distributed by Museums Partner w w w. m u s e u m s p a r t n e r. c o m PROJECT LEADER HUBERT HEYMANS heymans@museumspartner.com Tel.: