Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
Open every day 10am-6pm
(except Christmas Day)
Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
Meet the astonishing dinosaurs of Patagonia, South America – including Patagotitan, one of the most massive creatures ever to walk the planet. Encounter life-sized casts, and real fossils up to 180 million years old. Get hands-on with models, and create your own virtual dino!
This exhibition has now closed.
16 Dec 2023 – 28 Apr 2024
Amokura, Level 4
Adult: $29.90 With museum entry
Child (3–15 incl): $14.90
All ages
60 mins
wheelchair accessible
wharepaku | toilet – all gender, accessible
variable light levels, including darker areas
some seating
Step into the desert of Patagonia and discover incredible new fossil finds. See how palaeontologists reconstruct the past, and journey back in time to explore dinosaur adaptations and environments. Patagonia and Aotearoa New Zealand were part of Gondwana when dinosaurs ruled – could similar dinosaurs have roamed here?
This family-friendly exhibition includes models, fossils, videos, and fun activities – walk like a dino, sound like a dino, even create a virtual dino!
Highlights include:
a 30-metre-long cast of Patagotitan
eleven other precise casts, from tiny Manidens to ferocious Tyrannotitan, which preyed on Patagotitan
one of the biggest fossilised bones ever found: Patagotitan’s femur.
Adult: $29.90
Concession (Friends, student, SuperGold, Community Services Card): $22.50
Child (3–15 incl): $14.90
Family A (1 adult, 2 children): $49.90
Family B (2 adults, 2 children): $74.90
Tickets can be purchased online or in person at Te Papa
Booking fees apply for online tickets
Extra fees apply for Anytime tickets
This touring exhibition from Argentina’s Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio will be at Te Papa from 16 December 2023 to 28 April 2024.
Sat 1 Jul 2023
Te Papa will be the only New Zealand venue for Dinosaurs of Patagonia – a blockbuster exhibition of recently-discovered dinosaur species featuring one of the biggest creatures ever to walk the planet: the 37-metre-long Patagotitan mayorum.
Press release He pānui pāpāho
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