Dino Day! Featuring the Iguanodon Restaurant

Join us at the Museum for a family-friendly day of dinosaur- and fossil-centred activities. The Museum is delighted to welcome Arts company Emerald Ant to present The Iguanodon Restaurant, a wonderfully quirky piece of free street theatre. A furious romp through 50 years of ground-breaking scientific discoveries that changed how we see the world, ‘Iggy’ the Iguanodon provides family fun for Dino lovers of all ages.

It’s New Year’s Eve, 1853, and in Crystal Palace Park a group of eminent professors and geologists are holding a sumptuous banquet in an unusual venue – inside the concrete cast of an Iguanodon. Fossil-fuelled fun ensues as the dinner guests in the Iguanodon Restaurant, famous dinosaur hunters William Buckland, Gideon Mantell, Mary Anning and Richard Owen wrangle over their amazing fossil finds.

Is it a bird? A giant fish? An ancient crocodile? They debate questions around extinction and evolution – how come dinosaurs no longer exist? What does the stone beneath our feet tell us about the world? And what’s really in that blancmange? Find out in this highly visual, funny and peculiar performance.

This family-friendly event is suitable for all, and with BSL interpretation it offers a great opportunity for those who are deaf or hard of hearing to enjoy a piece of theatre to maximum effect.

Performance times: 12:30 and 2:30 pm.

The Iggy performances will be accompanied on the Dino Day by a drop-in workshop – children (age 4 to 104!) can learn more about fossils, dinosaurs and of course about their local museum. Roll your sleeves up and get creative, maybe create a badge to take home.

Light refreshments will be available; you are welcome to bring a picnic to enjoy in the Museum’s Victorian Garden.

There is no charge for admission, but donations to the museum would be very welcome. Please contact us to reserve your place and avoid disappointment!

For more information about Emerald Ant, please visit their website: www.emeraldant.com/