Decades before Jurassic Park, the Sault Ste. Marie Museum hosted a spectacular dinosaur exhibit featuring life-sized fibreglass casts and skeletal forms of these prehistoric giants. The exhibit, 'Dinosaur Days,' opened in October 1984, bringing the wonder of dinosaurs to the community.
From the archives of the Sault Ste. Marie Public Library: A decade before Jurassic Park wowed audiences with big-screen dinosaur shenanigans, Saultites were able to take in the wonder of the ancient creatures at the Sault Ste. Marie Museum . In 1984, The Royal Ontario Museum brought a dinosaur exhibit to the Sault St. Marie Museum, featuring life-size skeleton forms of the gigantic beasts. A ‘Dinosaur Days’ exhibit opened to the public on October 1, 1984, on the second floor of the museum.
The travelling exhibition from The Royal Ontario Museum brought a fabulous display of life-sized fibreglass casts of dinosaurs. Text, photographs, illustrations and audio-visual presentations accompanied each of the five dinosaur replicas. Hours of childhood Lego building came in handy for the staff of the Sault Ste. Marie Museum, as they worked to put the dinosaurs together. Assembling the heavy life-size skeletal forms of the dinosaurs was no easy task as museum volunteers Andy McGrath, Reilly Hart and John Eaton could attest. As the Dinosaur Days exhibit prepared to open, Caretaker Dennis Frechette spoke with Sault Star reporter John Cairns about the assembly. “(He) termed the assembly process ‘not too bad’, although there were a few problems. ‘The most difficult part was carrying things up here,’ he said, standing amid the exhibit pieces on the weekend. ‘Our elevator wasn’t large enough for some of the crates. Other than that, they pretty much snapped together…But because they are dinosaurs, it is hard to get around the bulk.’” An Albertasaurus was one of the slightly scary, completely fascinating displays of these formidable beasts that roamed the earth millions of years ago. The massive reptiles featured in the exhibit roamed the earth 12,000 to 100 million years ago. The exhibit’s main feature was three large dinosaur models, each almost touching the ceiling of the museum. A fibreglass Parasaurolophus model was approximately 13 feet tall and 13 feet lon
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