Event Description
Opening in the Art of Science Gallery, Drawn to Dinosaurs features the science and art of visualizing a living animal based on fragmentary fossils.
Dinosaur artist and educator Jason Poole will create a life-size dinosaur drawing while museum visitors watch on the opening day of the new exhibit. He will will use colored chalk on a blackboard installed in the Art of Science Gallery to draw the 25-foot-long, duck-billed, plant-eating dinosaur. Museum visitors can watch the process and ask questions. A time-lapse video of the daylong drawing session will be created and installed in the exhibit the following week.
This intimate exhibit illustrates what scientists can deduce from the fossil record when creating a reconstruction of a skeleton or model and what they must look to artists to interpret. The centerpiece is a full cast of the plant-eating dinosaur Hadrosaurus foulkii, discovered in 1858 in Haddonfield, NJ. The Academy created a full cast of this duck-billed dinosaur and put it on display in 1868, becoming the first place in the world where the public could go to see a dinosaur. Now it’s back.
Click here to watch a time lapse of Jason Poole creating a life-sized Hadrosaurus drawing from 2013.
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