DAVENPORT, IOWA (June 14, 2024) — The Putnam Museum and Science Center is gearing up for three days of dinosaurs.
Friday, June 28, kicks off the weekend with the classic Nineties film Jurassic Park. They will be showing the movie in 3D on the GIANT Screen Theater at 7PM.
Starting at 10AM, Saturday, June 29, is Dino Days. This annual event is fun for the whole family and includes admission to a movie. At 11 AM, the brand-new movie T Rex will be premiering in the GIANT Screen Theater. It incorporates real-life paleontology (including three children who recently found T rex fossils in North Dakota) with cutting-edge CGI to bring the world of dinosaurs to life. The movie will be interspersed throughout the weekend between screenings of Dino Dana.
The two-day event will include a “Create Your Dinosaur Name” activity, face-painting, a dinosaur button station, and a special “dig” area with a sluice and a sandbox. The full museum will be open with a scavenger hunt, and there will be talks given by a paleontologist and her dinosaur! You can preserve your Dino Days memories with two separate photo opportunities: one for printed photos and one for selfies.
On Sunday, June 30, the event goes 12-5PM, but there will be a special sensory-friendly version of the event starting at 10AM.
The Putnam Museum’s sensory-friendly events are set up to avoid over stimulation. The paleontologist will not be joined by her dinosaur until after noon, and some activities will be modified. They will be showing a sensory-friendly version of T Rex at 12PM. This means the movie will be in 2D, the lights will be dimmed instead of off, and the volume will be lowered. Guests will be free to move around the theater and make noise. There will also be a “cool-down” zone in the Lardner Balcony, which is accessible from the upper exit of the theater.
Tickets can be purchased on their website, Putnam.org/events/DinoDays.
