Dino Parque da Lourinhã

Dino Parque Lourinhã, in Abelheira, in the municipality of Lourinhã, turns the region’s palaeontological richness into an open-air journey through the history of life. Opened in February 2018, it is presented as the largest open-air museum in Portugal. The route brings together more than 200 life-size models of dinosaurs and other animals, scientifically verified, distributed across six themed trails that cover major stages in the history of the Earth, from the Palaeozoic to the Cenozoic, including Sea Monsters and the Ice Age. The museum space presents fossils, original dinosaur eggs and replicas from the Museu da Lourinhã, including material associated with Torvosaurus and the Lourinhanosaurus nest. In the Live Lab, fossil preparation makes the patient work of palaeontology visible. Among pine woods, walkways and monumental figures, the park brings science, territory and imagination together without losing its link to local Jurassic finds.