Image courtesy the Australian Museum.
Gina Fairley, How do you ship a dinosaur?, ArtsHub, 29 September 2016
Shipping a 13-meter dinosaur from Japan to Sydney sounds like a logistical nightmare, but that’s nothing. The museum needs upgrading to display it.
A life-size Tyrannosaurus Rex model was recently gifted to the Australian Museum (AM) by the international mega-company National Geographic. While such additions to a collection are wonderful news, in this case it also represented one very large problem.
‘You can solve any problem – it just takes a little more thought,’ said CEO and Director AM, Kim McKay.
In some ways, moving a dinosaur for a museum is as simple as wrapping it up, whacking it in a crate, and sticking it on a truck.
