Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
The world's first dinosaur sculptures, unveiled in 1854 and now Grade I listed, standing on islands by the lake in Crystal Palace Park.
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- Price: Free
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Did you know
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins held a celebratory dinner inside the mould of one of the Iguanodon models on 31 December 1853, before the sculptures were unveiled.
Local tip
Free and open daily from about 7.30am until the park gates close (the time varies by month). Look from the paths only, as climbing on the sculptures is prohibited, and expect mud on the unpaved footpath after rain.
Finding it
- Address
- Crystal Palace Park (Penge entrance), Thicket Road, London SE20
- Nearest station
- Crystal Palace (Overground), 408 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
More places nearby
- Crystal Palace ParkVictorian pleasure grounds in south-east London with Italian terraces flanked by sphinxes, a free hedge maze, a boating lake and life-size Victorian dinosaur sculptures.
- Crystal Palace MuseumA small volunteer-run museum in the park's surviving Victorian engineering-school building, telling the story of the giant glass Crystal Palace that stood here until it burned down in 1936.
- West Norwood CemeteryOne of London's 'Magnificent Seven' Victorian cemeteries, with a Greek Orthodox necropolis and dozens of listed monuments among the hillside mausolea.
- Horniman Museum and GardensA free South London museum of anthropology, natural history and musical instruments set within 16 acres of gardens, opened in 1901 as a gift to the public by tea trader Frederick John Horniman.