![]() ![]() “This is a major coup for Glasgow – with two dinosaurs, Trix and Dippy, visiting our city at the same time for a short while. ![]() “Through our strong partnerships both with Glasgow Museums and with European institutions we have been able to ensure that Trix was able to visit Scotland on her first and only British tour date. I can tell you, having gone nose to nose with this 67- million-year-old fossil myself, that this is an experience not to be missed. “I am so looking forward to welcoming visitors to Kelvin Hall and see their reaction to the sheer size and scale of Trix. Her arrival in Scotland will be a unique opportunity to see up close a real T.rex which is one of the fiercest predators to have ever lived. Steph Scholten, Director of The Hunterian, said: “Trix is a superb example of one of the world’s best preserved T.rex skeletons. The exhibition has been organised by The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow and Glasgow Museums and has been supplied by Naturalis Biodiversity Centre. Trix’s visit comes just weeks after Dippy the Diplodocus skeleton cast went on display at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum just a stone’s throw from Kelvin Hall.Īnd for a few short weeks, both Dippy and Trix will be in Glasgow at the same time as Dino-fever turns the west end of the city into Scotland’s Dino-quarter. This is another major dinosaur coup for Glasgow. She will travel from her home in the Netherlands to Glasgow to go on display in the city from 18 April to 31 July 2019. She has already visited Salzburg, Austria Barcelona, Spain Paris, France and Lisbon, Portugal. Her Scottish visit will be the first and only stop outside mainland Europe. Glasgow is the final stop for Trix’s tour of Europe. The T.rex in Town exhibition is touring European cities while she waits for a new museum building to be completed at Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in her home city of Leiden, in the Netherlands. The 67-million-year-old T.rex female is 39-foot long, around 13 feet high, weighs five tonnes and is nicknamed Trix. ![]() The T.rex skeleton will greet visitors in attack mode, with her ferocious teeth and enormous head mounted at eye level, when it goes on display at Glasgow’s Kelvin Hall from Easter this year. rex skeleton on tour anywhere in the world. Visitors to Glasgow will get an amazing opportunity to see one of the best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons when it visits Scotland on the last leg of its European tour.Īs tickets went on sale today (Monday 4 February), the organisers also released the details of the Glasgow visit of the only real T. ![]()
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