From 10–14 September 2025, the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM) held our first-ever September school holiday programme, ‘Dinosaurs, Extinctions, Fossils’, as part of the Museum’s 10th Anniversary celebrations! We were happy to welcome 130 participants over seven sessions, ready to explore the world of dinosaurs with us!  

The two-and-a-half hour sessions were packed with activity. It kicked off with a 28-minute immersive planetarium experience, where participants got lost in the prehistoric world with ‘DINOSAURS: A Story of Survival’. They journeyed back in time with Celeste and Moon to meet some iconic dinosaurs and learnt how their legacy lives on, even till today.  

Next, participants were brought on a guided gallery tour, where they stepped into the history of palaeontology and discovered how dinosaurs once thrived across the Mesozoic era. Participants learnt about our dinosaur specimens and fossils in the Museum’s gallery and learnt about their adaptations and the mysteries behind their extinction.  

It was then time for a hands-on activity, ‘Beyond the Bones’. Participants got up close with our skeleton specimens—including a prehistoric one! 

Participants also learnt about paleoart (artistic work that attempts to depict prehistoric life) and tried their hand at drawing what they imagined a Deinonychus antirrhopus would have looked like in the past, based on a Deinonychus model.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for ‘Dinosaurs, Extinctions, Fossils’! We loved diving into deep time with you!