Dinosaur Museum

The dinosaurs at the Dinosaur Walk Museum are created by some of the worlds greatest paleo-artists. Paleo means ancient or prehistoric, meaning the artists re-create creatures from prehistoric times. The dinosaur sculptures are called flesh replications.

These artists use actual fossils, footprints, and other information to create the dinosaurs. The skeletons of the dinosaurs are reproduced using wood. The wooden skeleton is then covered in clay and sculpted to the dinosaurs actual size.

For information on how the muscles should look, (like how much muscle mass a large animal would need to move), the artists base their designs on modern-day animals. Then the clay models are molded and reproduced in fiberglass, assembled and painted, becoming some of the most realistic dinosaurs ever produced.

The dinosaurs are made the actual size that they were when they roamed the earth. Production began on some of the pieces over a decade ago. Transporting the dinosaurs requires careful packing of full-size semi trucks. The larger dinosaurs are put together, like a giant puzzle, at the museums.