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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161026T130000
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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/birkenhead-priory-gavin-rymills-
 dinousaurs/
SUMMARY:Birkenhead Priory: Birkenhead Priory: Gavin Rymill's Dinousaurs
DESCRIPTION:Dinosaurs at the Oldest Building in Merseyside!\nA free half te
 rm exhibition 65 million years in the making.\n\nFrom 26th to 30th of Octo
 ber\, the oldest building in Merseyside will be welcoming a huge guest - a
  life-sized Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton! This 40-foot replica has been scul
 pted over six months by organiser Gavin Rymill and will be the centrepiece
  of a prehistoric installation for half term at the Birkenhead Priory.\n\n
 The free exhibition will use a combination of artwork and science to portr
 ay the bones of dinosaurs and how they appeared in life. Several artists h
 ave been specially commissioned to produce paintings which will sit alongs
 ide replicas\, diagrams and a few real fossils to illustrate how these ani
 mals lived and died. Britain's prehistoric past will be explored via monst
 rous footprints\, including some found on the Wirral\, and displays will e
 xplain how the local geology fits into the wider view of palaeontology.On 
 show earlier this year at the West Kirby Museum\, the Wirral Museums Servi
 ce are delighted to be able to offer a second opportunity for visitors to 
 see the exhibits during the October half term. With its mix of strong visu
 als\, life-sized fossils\, scientific explanations and accurate exhibits\,
  the exhibition is designed to appeal to adults and children alike.\n\nOrg
 aniser Gavin Rymill explained how it all came together:\n\n" I was in need
  of a new project and had this mad idea of putting a dinosaur. Unfortunate
 ly\, a museum-quality T. rex replica costs about £800\,000 and that's a l
 ittle beyond my budget but\, as luck would have it\, I'm a professional sc
 ulptor so I thought\, 'how hard could it be to make one?!'"\n\nGavin creat
 es digital 'sculpts' that are 3D printed. For three years\, he has worked 
 on figurines that are 10cm high but carving on a large scale was totally n
 ew. The project has taken around 600 hours to put the creature together. T
 he gigantic bones - some as long as five feet - were cut out of massive bl
 ocks of polystyrene which were bought from a waste centre. It took two van
 s to transport the blooks to West Kirby and a chainsaw to turn them into m
 anageable sections before being shaped with smaller tools. The result isn'
 t a million-dollar\, museum-quality replica but a surprisingly accurate sk
 eleton.\n\nBirkenhead Priory is in close proximity to Monks Ferry offering
  a view of the river from the ground. Picnics welcomed and bike rack avail
 able. The Birkenhead Priory precinct is only 15 minutes’ walk from Woods
 ide Ferry terminal and Hamilton Square train station\, free parking on sit
 e and pay parking on streets nearby but will be limited.\n\nDinosaurs in B
 irkenhead Priory 26th – 30th of October\n\nWednesday – Friday - 1pm to
  4pm\nSaturday and Sunday 10am to 4pm\nwww.thebirkenheadpriory.org
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LOCATION:Birkenhead Priory\, Beckwith Street/St. Anne Street\, Birkenhead\,
  Wirral\, CH41 4JF\, Wirral\, United Kingdom
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