A 240-million-year immersive journey
Everything you thought you knew about dinosaurs has changed. A spectacular journey between fantasy and science, where the latest discoveries, digital art and technology bring a lost world back to life.
Scientific advisory Orígens UNESCO Global Geopark with ICP Catalan Institute of PaleontologyThe Experience
Dinosaurs, rediscovered
DINOSAURIUM takes dinosaur exhibitions to a new dimension. For over a century, dinosaurs were pictured as slow, scaly, primitive failures. That image is now obsolete: CT scanning, biomechanical simulation, melanosome analysis and feathered fossils from China and Mongolia have redefined them as dynamic, intelligent and diverse animals. Here you don't just watch: you step inside ancient ecosystems and walk among life-size dinosaurs, reconstructed with today's science.
Seven spaces and around 90 minutes, from popular myth to living science: a 20-minute large-format immersive film, a shared virtual reality metaverse, a 360° virtual reality finale, interactive installations and fossil reproductions. With the scientific advice of the Orígens UNESCO Global Geopark and the ICP Catalan Institute of Paleontology, an original soundtrack by Rafel Plana performed by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, and scents created with the Fundació Ventós to evoke the Triassic, the Jurassic and the Cretaceous. On a world tour from 2027.
- A new dinosaur species is discovered almost every week.
- They ruled the Earth for millions of years, far longer than humans have existed.
- One of science's greatest stories is still unfolding.
- Dinosaurs are not extinct. They are being rediscovered.
Orígens UNESCO Global GeoparkGeoparc Orígens · Catalan Pyrenees
With ICP Catalan Institute of Paleontology
Scientific advisory
Rigorous science, spectacular experience
DINOSAURIUM has the scientific advice of the Orígens UNESCO Global Geopark, in the Catalan Pyrenees: a territory recognised by UNESCO for geological heritage of international value, home to dinosaur fossil sites from the very end of the age of dinosaurs. Its knowledge brings rigour to every room and connects the experience with the places where this story is still being uncovered.
From the fossil reproductions on display to the way each animal moves, feeds and looks, every reconstruction starts from the evidence: what we know, what we think we know, and what is still being discovered.
With the participation of researchers from the ICP Catalan Institute of Paleontology specialising in dinosaurs.
On Tour
Where to experience it
World premiere at IDEAL Barcelona, then on tour across Europe and the Middle East. Find DINOSAURIUM in a city near you.
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Coming SoonThe Journey
Seven rooms. From myth to living science.
The Popular Myth
The visit opens with the tension between scientific knowledge and popular imagination. For two centuries, palaeoart, literature, cinema and toys have shaped the way we picture dinosaurs. Back-lit panels trace the story from myth to evidence through the history of palaeontology, around an imposing fossil replica of a Stegosaurus more than seven metres long.
The Age of Reptiles
Walk freely among life-size dinosaurs, watch them move and interact with them, as if you shared their world. This shared virtual world brings to life The Age of Reptiles (1943–1947), Rudolph F. Zallinger's monumental mural at the Yale Peabody Museum and one of the great icons of palaeoart, as a living ecosystem of climate, vegetation and biodiversity. The emphasis is coexistence and scale, not threat.
Layers of the Earth
Step into the shoes of a palaeontologist. Fossils are raw evidence, not conclusions: projection mapping on a three-dimensional surface turns the Earth into a vertical geological section, inviting you to travel through deep time and uncover the past its layers hide.
- Geological map
- Paleomemory
- Interactive excavation
- Fossil Rush
Paleoart Studio
Become a palaeoartist. Choose a dinosaur, colour it in within real scientific parameters, scan your drawing and watch it come to life, animated in a prehistoric landscape with your own colours and patterns. Your creation becomes part of the exhibition.
A New Story of Dinosaurs
The most emotional moment of the journey. Over 20 minutes and four chapters, a large-format immersive film with an original soundtrack turns evidence, hypotheses and discoveries into animals and landscapes: from the study of fossils to life in their ecosystems, a comparison of their real sizes and the discovery that changes everything.
- Stones That Speak
- How Did They Live?
- Actual Size
- Feathers
You Are Here
An encounter with today's science: how dinosaurs are researched, how new discoveries are made and what place we humans occupy in this story. Display cases with fossils and reproductions reveal the physical reality behind every reconstruction, with a highlight piece: a replica of the skull of a Tyrannosaurus rex.
The End and What Came After
Rooted in the great classic disaster films, a 360° virtual reality production lets you experience first-hand the day an asteroid impact changed life on the planet forever. From the force of the impact to its planetary consequences and the reorganisation of life, a spectacular, moving finale that connects that distant past with our present. The room also displays replicas of a Utahraptor skeleton and a fossilised Mamenchisaurus bone.
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Layers of Reality
DINOSAURIUM is created and produced by Layers of Reality, a content creation studio focused on extended reality. Since its inception, Layers of Reality productions have travelled to more than 50 cities and have been seen by more than 10 million people.