Dippy the dinosaur starts UK tour
The huge skeleton will be on display in Glasgow next year.
Dippy the dinosaur, which is going to be going on display in Glasgow next year, has begun its UK tour.
The huge 26-metre long skeleton is unveiled in a museum on the Jurassic Coast.
In just under a year’s time Dippy will be taking up residence at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum for four months.
The skeleton is a cast of a real Diplodocus carnegii skeleton found in the early 1900s in Pennsylvania, USA.
The species is named after Andrew Carnegie, a 19th-century industrialist and philanthropist who donated the cast to the Natural History Museum in London.
The Diplodocus carnegii lived between 145 and 156 million years ago. In its displayed pose, the skeleton is 26m long, 4.3m wide and 4.17m high.
Dippy has been on display at the Natural History Museum for over a hundred years and the UK tour marks his first trip outside the museum.
It took three weeks to dismantle all of Dippy’s 292 bones, which are made of resin and plaster of Paris.
The three-year tour begins today at the Dorset County Museum in Dorchester and will visit museums and cathedrals across the UK. The museum estimates that the skeleton will have over five million visitors during his UK tour.
Dippy will be on show at Kelvingrove between 22nd January and 5th May next year