Design-a-saur or tell a dino tale and win a monster trip through time
Families in Dorset and Devon have the chance to win tickets to the summer blockbuster exhibition Age of the Dinosaur now on at London’s Natural History Museum. The Jurassic Coast has teamed up with the Natural History Museum and First Great Western to offer three sets of family tickets plus train travel to the lucky winners of an exciting kids’ competition.
By drawing their own dinosaur, designing a poster for a Jurassic journey or writing a dinosaur story, children in three age groups could win two adult and three child tickets to the exhibition as well as complimentary train tickets to London and back.
Age of the Dinosaur
Age of the Dinosaur is the Natural History Museum’s big family experience for the summer. Visitors will journey back more than 65 million years to meet some giant prehistoric beasts, walk through a swamp-like Jurassic forest and Cretaceous desert and catch sight of weird, wonderful and now extinct animals and plants among the smells and sounds of this prehistoric land.
Amazing life-size, animatronic dinosaurs including a Gallimimus, Protoceratops, Camarasaurus, Oviraptor, Velociraptor, and Tarbosaurus will emerge from the rocks, water and trees. Visitors can investigate precious fossils, handle specimen replicas and examine evidence to find out what the world looked like when dinosaurs walked on Earth. Jaw-dropping images and film footage, with fantastic interactive challenges, create an exciting, immersive experience like never before at the museum.
The competition, being run by the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site team, is part of a long-term collaboration with the world-famous London museum. The winning families will also have the chance to explore the rest of the museum, where some of the most spectacular fossils from the Jurassic Coast are displayed.
Draw a Dinosaur – Design a Poster – Creative Writing Project
The team is inviting entries from children and young people of different ages (at date of entry):
- Ages 4-6 – ‘Design-a-Saur’: draw your own dinosaur and tell us all about it.
- Ages 7-11 – Design a poster for visitors to ‘Go back to the Jurassic’ on a train. The poster must incorporate elements of the modern-day Jurassic Coast and what it used to look like hundreds of millions of years ago.
- Ages 12-16 – Creative writing project: Write a short story about travelling back in time to the Jurassic Coast.
There will also be a range of fantastic runners-up prizes. For full details about the competition, go to www.jurassiccoast.com/dinocomp
The competition closing date is Friday 22 July 2011 and the winning entries will be notified by Friday 29 July 2011. The tickets must be used by 4 September, when the exhibition closes.
Email entries to dinocomp@jurassiccoast.com or post them to Jurassic Coast Team, Dorset County Council, County Hall, Dorchester, DT1 1XJ.