The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis | 2020-2023

In the summer of 2020, we were sent the bones of a Baptanodon, and a Plioplatecarpus for prep, mounting, cleaning and installation. These were from The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis for their Mission Jurassic project to renovate their Dinosphere with more bones coming from the “Jurassic Mile”. In November/December of 2021, our skeleton crew were finally able to install the new-species Sauropod for the Giants of the Jurassic stage, as well as a giant ammonite, Archaelon, Elasmosaurus, Baptanodon and Plioplatecarpus fossils in Monsters of the Mesozoic Seas. The New and Improved Dinosphere opened in March 2022 and has been a centerpiece of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. This was a monumental project for RCI and we had an incredible time working on it with TCMIndy over those 2 years. We visited The Children’s Museum to get the stage ready for the sauropods to be installed in the “Giants of the Jurassic” section. These bones were so big that we needed to fabricate and install a specially-designed platform to hold them. We also had to make sure that it fit perfectly with the armatures and that it carefully cradled each fossil. Finally, we also sculpted and painted the surrounding rockwork to look like the riverbed we imagine that sauropods would have walked through, including their footprints! To learn more please read: Enter the Dinosphere Dinosphere Expansion Dinosphere Exhibits