Dippy the Diplodocus in Glasgow :: Shared Description
Dippy is one of ten plaster cast copies of the original diplodocus skeleton which was excavated during railway construction works in Wyoming, USA in 1899. Housed in London's Natural History Museum from 1905 until 2017, it is currently in Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery on the Glasgow leg of a UK road trip. It will stay here until 6th May when it will move to the next leg of the tour in Newcastle.
The skeleton consists of 292 bones, is 21.3 metres long, 4 metres wide and over 4 metres high.
Dippy was commissioned by Scots-born industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who owned the original fossilised skeleton, and had copies made from plaster.
See Dippy in London in 2016 TQ2679 : Inside the Natural History Museum, London.
The skeleton consists of 292 bones, is 21.3 metres long, 4 metres wide and over 4 metres high.
Dippy was commissioned by Scots-born industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who owned the original fossilised skeleton, and had copies made from plaster.
See Dippy in London in 2016 TQ2679 : Inside the Natural History Museum, London.
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Created: Mon, 11 Feb 2019, Updated: Thu, 9 Sep 2021
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