We enjoyed a learning session on dinosaurs there. The man who gave the talk was fantastic - so enthusiastic and such a love for all things dinosaur! The children all got to handle and study many interesting dinosaur fossils. Oxford Museum is special for its spectacular dinosaur display and it's special place in the history of early paleontology, the home of the phrase 'dinosaur'!
The first dinosaur to be described and named was presented in 1824 as the 'Megalosaurus'.
Richard Owen invented the word 'dinosaur' in 1842. Owen was a distinguished professor of anatomy and based his new grouping on the shared features of the large land-living reptiles Megalosaurus, Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus.
The dinosaur displays include species other than those found in Oxfordshire.
On first entering the Museum you are struck by the sight of the Iguanodon and Tyrannosaurus towering over you.
Apart from dinosaurs, they have fascinating entomology displays which of course kept our amateur entomologist, Sol, very happy.
