Dinosaurs set to come to life at Birmingham Botanical Gardens

It's a spectacular outdoor experience aimed at family audiences with more than 30 impressive installations of animated dinosaurs with electronic moving parts.

Animatronics include arms moving up and down, tails swaying side-to-side, heads moving up and down, eyes blinking and jaws opening wide with roaring sound effects. It makes for an educational and entertaining Jurassic experience!

This is the first outdoor dinosaur experience of its kind, suitable for children of all ages. Visitorscan explore the gardens and uncover epic life-sized replica dinosaurs from collosal tyrannosaurus Rex and triceratops to flying reptiles such as pterosaurs.

Children will be in awe of these animatronic dinosaurs as they blend into the paths, ponds, gardens, woodlands and greenery of the Botanical Gardens. Children also have the chance to dig up dinosaur bones in an excavation scene.

Along the Jurassic Kingdom route will be an education marquee for school groups and families to enter and watch educational documentaries about dinosaurs produced by the BBC on a large projection screen. Children and adults alike will enjoy a 30-min viewing experience and learn more in-depth information about how dinosaurs lived, millions of years ago.

The festival also has a handful of street food and drink vendors to keep visitors fed and watered as they wander through Jurassic Kingdom. A range of educational and entertaining branded merchandise will also be available for purchase within the retail marquee so visitors can take home a memento of their experience.

The event, which runs until June 4, is open daily from 10am to 6pm with last entry at 5pm.

When selecting tickets you will be asked to select a time slot and entry is at hourly time slots from 10am to 5pm. Once inside the festival visitors can stay as long they wish.

Tickets for Birmingham are now on sale at www.jurassickingdom.uk