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Way back in 2017, the Natural History Museum’s iconic skeletal sauropod Dippy the diplodocus headed out on a very slow tour of the UK. Saying bye-bye to his home since 1905, the tour saw him take up residence in sundry museums and other venues across the country for months at a time, delighting the adorable little provincial children, but sadly depriving the young of London of his magnificence, with the status of NHM skeleton-in-chief ceded to Hope the blue whale. An impressive sight, to be sure, but not actually a dinosaur.
Anyway, after concluding his engagement in Norwich, the last stop of the tour, he’ll be gearing up to return to London – at least, temporarily.
Yes, his return from tour won’t be quite as simple as putting Hope back wherever they found her and settling the D-man back into his old digs. Initially he’ll be the focus of his own special free temporary exhibition that will celebrate him and the places he visited on tour: Dorchester, Birmingham, Rochdale… all the good places.
After that the NHM is remaining coy about plans: having just been seen by two million people across the country, you have to assume they won’t just shove him back into a box. But Hope is pretty damn spectacular and also looks like she’d be a right pain to take down.
Still Londoners young and old: rejoice that our prodigal 28-metre-long, 150-million-years-dead dinosaur son will soon return to us! Dates are very much TBC, but he should be in place by the summer.
For more information about Dippy’s tour, go here.
The Natural History Museum ice rink returns one last time this year