Description
Dinosaur Isle Museum is a unique, purpose-built dinosaur attraction that brings the island’s prehistoric past to life. Located near Sandown Bay, it offers an immersive indoor experience exploring dinosaurs that lived over 125 million years ago. It is a family-friendly destination where visitors can learn, explore and discover ancient history in an engaging way.
Visitors can see real dinosaur bones, life-sized models of species like Neovenator and Iguanodon, and fossils from different prehistoric ages. The museum features interactive exhibits where you can see, hear and even touch elements of the dinosaur world, along with displays of Ice Age animals, ammonites and tropical fossils. There are also opportunities to watch fossil preparation, speak to palaeontologists and explore a recreated prehistoric landscape filled with sounds and visuals.
Ticket prices are £8.00 for adults, £5.00 for children (3–15) and students/pensioners, with family tickets starting from £18.00.
Dinosaur Isle Museum offers a fun and educational journey into the age of dinosaurs. With its interactive exhibits, real fossils and life-sized models, it creates an exciting experience for all ages. It is an ideal place for families, school trips and anyone interested in prehistoric life.
Features
- Paid
- Host birthday parties: No
Features
Dinosaur Isle Museum is the start to your journey into the Island’s prehistoric past!
- Britain's first purpose-built dinosaur attraction is just over the sea wall from Sandown’s blue flag beach. In the heart of the Isle of Wight UNESCO Biosphere Reserve the museum is a spectacular Pterosaur-shaped building soaring over Sandown Bay.
- It is also just a short walk to where the dinosaurs roamed 125 million years ago. The museum is home to almost every newly discovered dinosaur from the UK, with many of the real bones on display.
- Set in amongst a recreated landscape you will meet life-sized models of the Isle of Wight's famous five dinosaurs - NEOVENATOR, EOTYRANNUS, IGUANODON, HYPSILOPHODON and POLACANTHUS.
- Flying above you amongst the haunting sounds of a long-lost forest are pterodactyls. You will see dinosaur skeletons as they are found by the fossil hunters and can watch our professional staff, and volunteers preparing the latest exciting finds.
- At Dinosaur Isle you will be able to encounter the lost world of dinosaurs that once roamed the Isle of Wight. As well as the dinosaurs are fossils from across the Island representing the different layers of rock and ages which make our beautiful landscape.
- The tusks of Ice Age elephants, the teeth and bones of tropical alligators, and a wide variety of fossil shells and ammonites. The fossils take you back to the animals and plants that shared the Cretaceous biosphere.
- We usually keep one of our qualified palaeontologists on site to be available to identify your finds, as well as give advice on where to look yourself. Just ask at the lab door or reception.
- As the only accredited dinosaur museum on the Island, our collections are held for future generations to enjoy and learn from.
1.51 miles
