The mighty T. rex at the Montréal Science Centre
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The Montréal Science Centre in the Old Port presents the blockbuster dinosaur exhibition T. rex: The Ultimate Predator and all-new permanent exhibition Nanualuk – Northern Expedition to mark the centre’s 25th anniversary.
King of the Dinosaurs
Organized by the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the interactive blockbuster temporary exhibition T. Rex: The Ultimate Predator features life-sized reconstructions so kids of all ages can get an astonishing look at how this killer dinosaur hatched from an egg and grew into a colossal monster.
Marvel at 40 models and casts, as well as life-sized dinosaurs and unbelievably realistic moulds. The exhibition features the most scientifically accurate reproduction of a T. rex ever shown.
Visitors can explore the evolutionary family tree of the T. rex and learn about its smaller and faster relatives thanks to models of three related species: Proceratosaurus, Dilong and Xiongguanlong.
Visitors can also learn about the tyrannosauruses that lived in Canada, as well as explore real fossils and replicas of dinosaur teeth and jaws courtesy of McGill University’s Redpath Museum, the exhibition’s collaborator and fossil lender, and Québec’s largest natural-history museum.
The exhibition also has more than 20 interactive activities where visitors can play the part of a paleontologist at a virtual research station, invent a roar for their very own T. rex, compare their eyesight with how these giant predators saw the world, and dig for fossils in excavation bins.
The T. Rex: The Ultimate Predator exhibition runs to September 7.
T. rex on the big screen
The new film T.Rex 3D: Greatest of all Tyrants screens at the Montréal Science Centre’s IMAX®TELUS theatre whose IMAX screen is as tall as a 7-storey building and boasts a 32,000-watt sound system. Viewers embark on an epic adventure starting from Hell Creek in the Badlands of North Dakota and into a lost world where T. rex is still king.
Life in the Canadian Arctic
To mark their 25th anniversary, the Montréal Science Centre has also launched their brand-new permanent exhibition Nanualuk – Northern Expedition. This immersive, interactive quest is filled with more than 20 missions to accomplish, each featuring a different theme related to life in the Arctic, such as learning how to use a harpoon to “read” the ice, and finding one’s way using the stars. Every mission has a different level of difficulty.
Visitor information
Click here to learn more about all five permanent exhibitions at the Montréal Science Centre, a complex dedicated to science and technology that welcomes more than 600,000 visitors annually.
Opening hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. from Monday to Friday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, as well as on public holidays: Quebec National Day (June 24) and Canada Day (July 1).
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Richard Burnett
Richard “Bugs” Burnett is a Canadian freelance writer, editor, journalist, blogger and columnist for alt-weeklies, mainstream and LGBTQ+ publications. Bugs also knows Montréal like a drag queen knows a cosmetics counter.