The dinosaur skeleton Tristan Otto is to return as an exhibit to the Berlin Natural History Museum this year.
“This year, in the second half of the year, we’re celebrating Tristan big again. The autumn holidays would be a good time, for example,” said the director of the Natural History Museum, Johannes Vogel, on Thursday evening on rbb television.
“He even brought friends with him,” said the director – without giving any further details.
Tristan Otto had been on display in the museum for four years and had attracted around three million visitors. The two private owners named the skeleton after their sons and made it available to the Berlin Natural History Museum free of charge.
At the same time, scientists were researching the more than 65 million year old remains of the predatory dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous period. The skeleton is twelve meters long and 4 meters high.
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With 170 original bones, it is considered to be particularly well preserved. Tristan Otto was a guest at the Natural History Museum in Copenhagen until the end of 2021 – in the special exhibition “King of Dinosaurs”.