The Dinosaur Gallery Star Objects in Film

New Walk Museum & Art Gallery in Leicester are delighted to announce the release of a series of video podcasts which profiles each of the new dinosaur galleries star objects.

The new podcast series provides a fascinating insights to the hidden stories behind the objects, how the dinosaurs were discovered, how they received their names, with the films featuring experts in their respective fields.

Liz Wilson, Managing Curator at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery said; ‘These films are fantastic. You can meet present and former members of museum staff who tell you how some of the most important objects came into the collection and the exciting stories of how they were discovered.'

The nine films feature the star objects in the new dinosaur gallery and include the visitor favourite Rutland Dinosaur, one of the world's oldest fossils - Charnia and local discoveries such as the Barrow Kipper and the Barwell Meteorite.

The films will be released each day on our website leading upto the opening of the new Dinosaur Gallery on Saturday 3rd September 2011. The film series starts with the former museum curator John Martin, providing a fascinating background to the discovery, naming and display of the Rutland Dinosaur including its trip to the Blue Peter studios!

The films can be viewed on our website at www.leicester.gov.uk/dinosaurs on our new You Tube channel www.youtube.com/leicestermuseums or by gallery visitors on a new iPad app especially developed for the new Dinosaur Gallery at the museum, which will contain each film and added interpretation content related to the Dinosaurs and Geology specimens in the new gallery.

You can also follow progress on the new dinosaur gallery as they approach the re-opening on the Leicester Arts & Museums Facebook group:
www.facebook.com/leicestermuseums
The series of podcasts have been funded by Renaissance East Midlands'
MuBu programme and supported by Glass Page, a Leicester based film and media company.