La Quinta Museum Goes Back In Time With Exhibit

The La Quinta Museum will simulate the time of the dinosaurs tonight when the “Jurassic Encounter” opens.

Tonight’s opening reception will be held from 5-7 p.m. and is open to all ages. The first 200 visitors will receive a dinosaur bone fragment, according to admission officials.

The exhibit will feature two animatronic dinosaurs, a stegosaurus and allosaurus, along with life-sized replicas of a tyrannosaurus rex skull, a triceratops and a pteranodon, which had a 20-foot wingspan.

The exhibit, which runs to July 31, will also include an outdoor digging station to search for bones and offer the opportunity to make crayon rubbings of fossils to take home, according to museum officials.

The museum, 77885 Avenida Montezuma, is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.