Drive-thru Dinosaur Experience At Virginia Museum Of Natural History

Though the Virginia Museum of Natural History can't host this year's Dino Festival due to the current health situation, we can still provide you with a small piece of it!

On Thursday, July 23 from 5 to 8 p.m., the museum is hosting the Drive-thru Dinosaur Experience! During the event, museum research and education staff will be on hand to feature a variety of displays of actual dinosaur fossils, dinosaur casts, and other dino-related specimens! The event is open to the public and free of charge.

Some of the displays that will be available include: dinosaur footprints from Virginia, Stegosaurus plates and skull, a giant sauropod femur, a Triceratops skull, a Triceratops horn with Tyrannosaurus rex bite marks, and - of course - a massive, inflatable T. rex!

Museum research staff will also show-off the comparisons between a Tyrannosaurus rex skull and an Appalachiosaurus skull, as well explain how dinosaurs are still among us in the form of birds!

Museum staff will even have a limited number of goody bags to hand out that include an educational craft and souvenir wrist bands!

*Please note that the museum will NOT be open to visitors during the drive-thru experience and visitors are asked to remain in their vehicles during the event. The drive-thru experience is free of charge, but donations will be accepted.

**Displays are subject to change.

***Rain date is Thursday, July 30 from 5 to 8 p.m.