Dinosaur rEvolution

You can rarely go too long at the Horniman without encountering some form of prehistoric life: following its recent ‘Permian Monsters’ and ‘Brick Dinos’ exhibitions, 2024 sees it play host ‘Dinosaur rEvolution’. Based around five showstopping animatronic models – including a seven-metre-long T-Rex – the general idea is that it’s compliant with current scientific thinking on what these creatures looked like: so lots of feathers, basically, alongside quills, spikes and all sorts of vibrant colours. Alongside the moving monsters will be various games and activities, plus a smattering of casts of actual fossils, including skeletons of velociraptor and compsognathus. If you haven’t yet got the message that the Jurassic Park-slash-World films were very wrong about what dinos looked like, you hopefully will after this.