T-Rex roams Newark Museum

From NJ.com: T-Rex roams Newark Museum
Jurassic Park comes to the Newark Museum when the “Mighty T-Rex” headlines a day of activities at the 5th annual Dinosaur Day on April 29 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Dinosaur Day engages children through hands-on experiences, games, performances and presentations. Children will meet and interact with the “Mighty T-Rex,” a 15-foot long mechanical dinosaur provided by Field Station: Dinosaurs that is accompanied by the Dinosaur Troubadour. Other activities include making fossil rubbings, digging for fossils, hunting for GEO treasures, creating dinosaur origami, joining in live animal presentations, and sluicing for gemstones. There will be a display of life size dinosaur fossils, a hurricane simulator with 70 mph winds, a fossil touch table and a Tsunami Tank.

Dinosaur Day performances include Bill Robinson’s Dinosaurs to Birds and Bill Boesenberg’s Snakes -n- Scales. The show The Dinosaur Prophecy will take place in the Dreyfus Planetarium. Times of these performances will be listed on newarkmuseum.org.

Geologists and engineers from Rutgers University, Kean University, NSF, Exxon Mobile, the New Jersey Paleontological Society and the US Geological Survey will also be on hand to share what modern geologists learn about dinosaurs and the history of the Earth.

Dinosaur Day is free with suggested Museum admission: $10for adults, $6 for seniors, children and students with valid ID. Admission price for the Planetarium is $5 for adults; and $3 for children under 12, seniors and college students with valid ID.

For more information, visit NewarkMuseum.org.