Dinosaur news

In summer 2017, The University of Nottingham in partnership with Nottingham City Council will bring an internationally significant dinosaur exhibition from China to Wollaton Hall and Nottingham Lakeside Arts.

The exhibition will be open for 4 months, from the beginning of July to the end of October 2017, during which period over 100,000 visitors are expected. Join us on Thursday 30th June for this lunchtime briefing to find out more about the exhibition and explore the opportunities this unique project offers to the University in terms of knowledge exchange, public engagement and benefits to research.

Agenda

• 12.00-12.30 Jason Feehily, Head of Asia Business Centre and Dr Wang Qi, lead academic on the project, will give an overview of the exhibition
• 12.30-1.00 Stay on for a light lunch and informal discussion time to explore how you can engage with the project and opportunities to collaborate

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More about the exhibition

This important collection of dinosaur fossils will be on loan from the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing, part of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences and one of world’s premiere paleontological institutions.

The exhibition will feature a variety of giant skeletons as well as smaller bird-like dinosaurs and will tell the newly-understood story of how birds evolved from dinosaurs. Recently-discovered specimens that have until now only been shown in China, will be accessible in the UK for the first time. Specimens will include Gigantoraptor, the largest bird-like dinosaur ever found (featured on the BBC’s documentary series Planet Dinosaur), and Yi qi, the bat-like flying dinosaur discovered as recently as 2015.

The exhibition is expected to attract circa 100,000 UK and overseas visitors to Wollaton Hall and circa 20,000 visitors to Nottingham Lakeside Arts. Dinosaurs of China is exclusive to Nottingham and will not be seen anywhere else in the UK. As such, it has already secured significant media and public interest with press coverage on BBC East Midlands News, Central ITV News, BBC Radio Nottingham and the Nottingham Post.

Invitation to Dinosaurs of China Information Event