Interactive workshops, family activities, science sessions and wellness experiences
If your idea of dinosaurs ends at big bones behind glass, the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi is about to change that.
Throughout the rest of June, the museum is going all in on prehistoric life with a packed programme of interactive workshops, family activities, science sessions and wellness experiences inspired by the Age of Dinosaurs and the story of life on Earth millions of years ago.
The programme is designed to be hands-on as well as educational, inviting visitors of all ages to explore not just what dinosaurs looked like, but how they lived, evolved, and ultimately disappeared.
One of the headline experiences, ‘Dinosaur Detectives: What Killed the Dinosaurs?’, turns visitors into palaeontology investigators.
Running from 26 to 30 June, participants dig into clues and scientific theories behind the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago.
Nearby, ‘Surviving the Darkness’ takes a more immersive approach, helping children understand the asteroid impact and the dramatic environmental changes that followed; and how life on Earth adapted in response.
The museum also explores one of science’s most fascinating ideas: that birds are living dinosaurs.
In ‘Scales to Feathers’, visitors compare fossils like Archaeopteryx and pterosaurs to see the evolutionary links between prehistoric creatures and modern species.
Meanwhile, ‘Survive Like a Dinosaur Card Gam’ turns adaptation into gameplay, helping visitors understand how species developed traits to survive changing environments.
In ‘What’s in a Name?,’ guests step into the world of scientific classification, learning how researchers name and organise everything from fossils to meteorites; a behind-the-scenes
look at how science actually works.
Families are a big focus this year, with the ‘Nature’s Families: Bird Edition Game’ inviting visitors to explore UAE bird species and biological connections through a fun, interactive museum-wide activity.
Younger visitors can also get creative with workshops like ‘Constellation Light Lab’, ‘Sun Printing’, and ‘Build a Mini Exhibit’, where children can curate their own mini museum displays using real specimen replicas.
It’s not all science and discovery, though, as Dino Month also includes a surprising wellness twist.
The museum’s ‘Nature and Mind’ series features yoga and sound healing sessions held inside the museum, including a ladies-only yoga class, International Yoga Day celebrations on Saturday, 21 June, and a ‘Strawberry Moon’ sound healing experience on 29 June.
The Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi is open Monday to Thursday from 10am to 6.30pm, and Friday to Sunday from 10am to 8.30pm.
Adults, AED70. Children under 18 go free. For full schedules, registration details and updates, visit nhmad.ae
