Dino Parque Lourinhã celebrates its 4th anniversary and marks the record number of 850,000 visitors
Dino Parque celebrates its 4th anniversary and marks a record 850,000 visitors since its opening to the public in February 2018.
Luis Rocha, Director General of Dino Parque, said: “Since opening in February, Dino Parque has already received 850,000 visitors, even with the last 2 years presenting so many challenges and difficulties. This enthusiasm with which the Portuguese have received this project confirms its relevance in the panorama of leisure offer combined with knowledge. Dino Parque is nowadays a reference in the national museum offer scenario and is proud of its contribution to scientific research in the area of palaeontology.”
In 2021, Dino Parque da Lourinhã received one of the largest dinosaurs in Europe – Supersaurus. Last year, a set of new activities was also added, thus complementing a perfect family program, outdoors and safe. The Paleo Camp is a fun area dedicated to the youngest that allows them to experience being true palaeontologists for a day. An excavation site, an exhibit of real dinosaur footprints, a field tent and lots of accessories and tools have been recreated.
With more than 10 hectares of outdoor space, Dino Parque Lourinhã is the largest outdoor exhibition of this theme in Europe, comprising five different routes that allow visitors to observe more than 180 models of dinosaur species on a real scale, as well as animals that have inhabited planet earth for 450 million years.
In addition to the outdoor routes, the visitor also has the opportunity to visit, in the central building of Dino Parque, the live lab and the museum space with the paleontological exhibition “Dinosaurs from Lourinhã” by the technical and scientific responsibility of the Lourinhã Ethnography and Archeology Group (GEAL), where you can find real fossils and replicas, the most emblematic being the nest of dinosaur eggs with about 150 million years old.
Dino Parque contributes to scientific research every year. In 2021, a new species of Plesiopharus moelensis was made known that had been prepared in the park’s laboratory. Between 2018 and 2021, Dino Parque supported GEAL – Museu da Lourinhã with a contribution of approximately 295,000 euros within the scope of the protocol signed between these two entities. In addition to this amount, since 2018, 93,304 euros have been delivered to projects for the development and conservation of the Portuguese Paleontological Heritage, through the Super Animals 3 Campaign of Pingo Doce.
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