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The ocean and the rainforest in Rocio Alvarez's mural for the 50th anniversary of Greenpeace

Trail for Kids: BiodiversiTour

Target Audience(s):
Kids, Families

Embark on a world tour of biodiversity, find the 6 letters of the mystery word and go to the MuseumShop to receive a special card. It will help you take funny photos of yourself, your family, your friends or your favorite animal!

The BiodiversiTour trail is designed for families with children aged 7 to 12. It is a thematic route through the Gallery of Evolution, Living Planet and 250 Years of Natural Sciences. Approximate duration: 45 minutes.

The tour is trilingual (FR-NL-EN) and freely available in the Museum, near the cloakroom while stocks last, or in a printable pdf format (also below in "Medias").

Age category:
from 7 to 12 years old
Conditions:

Freely available

Parcours_Biodiversitour_A3.pdf
Visual Jurassic World Dominion (copyright Universal)

Trail for Kids: Jurassic World Dominion

Target Audience(s):
Kids, Families

This tour introduces you to the stars of Jurassic World. Find the 6 letters of the mystery word and go to the MuseumShop to receive a special card. It will help you take funny photos of yourself, your family, your friends or your favorite animal!

The Jurassic World trail is designed for families with children aged 7 to 12. It is a thematic route through the Dinosaur Gallery, the Mosasaur Hall and the Gallery of Evolution. Approximate duration: 45 minutes.

The tour is trilingual (FR-NL-EN) and freely available in the Museum, near the cloakroom while stocks last, or in a printable pdf format (also below in "Medias").

Age category:
from 7 to 12 years old
Conditions:

Freely available

Parcours_Jurassic_World_2022_web.pdf
a miniature dinosaur in augmented reality on the Sauria application (photo: RBINS)

Sauria: a different way to visit the Museum

Target Audience(s):
Kids, Families, Adults

Sauria is a different way to visit the biggest Dinosaur Gallery in Europe: with a paper map and the accompanying app!

Sauria is a game that guides you around the Dinosaur Gallery and the Mosasaur Hall. Collect fun, colourful, augmented reality dinosaurs by answering the app’s questions. Once you’ve collected them, they appear virtually on your smartphone or tablet. 

The Sauria app is available for free from the App Store and Google Play. You can download it at the entrance to the Dinosaur Gallery, where you can also pick up the game map. 

The Sauria app lets you pick up signals from devices distributed around the Gallery. You’ll receive questions whose answers can be found in the exhibition. Each series of questions ends with an augmented reality experience.

It takes about an hour to answer the five series of questions.

The app saves all the questions and answers, as well as the augmented reality dinosaurs you’ve collected. You can look at them whenever or wherever you want. Why not share them with your friends?

So, what are you waiting for? Charge your smartphone or tablet and come down to the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels!

www.sauria.app

Conditions:

Sauria is a free game to play in the Dinosaur Gallery. The Sauria app is available for free from the App Store and Google Play. You must pay for a ticket to visit the Museum. 

Eep & Guy Croods

Free trail for Kids: Croods 2

Target Audience(s):
Kids, Families

On this trail, you will meet the Croods! Find the 6 letters of the mystery word and go to the MuseumShop to receive a special card. It will help you take funny photos of yourself, your family, your friends or your favorite animal!

The Croods 2 trail is designed for families with children aged 7 to 12. It is a thematic route through the Gallery of Evolution, Living Planet and the Gallery of Humankind - Our Evolution. Approximate duration: 45 minutes.

The tour is trilingual (FR-NL-EN) and freely available in a printable pdf format below.

Age category:
from 7 to 12 years old
Conditions:

Freely available

Parcours_CROODS_2021_A3.pdf
The meteorite when being discovered - Photograph by Vinciane Debaille (ULB)

Trail for Kids: Winter Tour

Target Audience(s):
Kids, Families

Brrrr, winter is coming to the Museum! Put on your down jacket, your cap and your gloves and discover the animals and scientists who aren't afraid of the cold!

The Winter Tour is designed for families with children aged 8 to 12. It is a thematic route through two halls of the Museum of Natural Sciences: the Dinosaur Gallery and the 250 Years of Natural Science Hall. Approximate duration: 45 minutes.

The tour is trilingual (FR-NL-EN) and freely available in a printable pdf format below.

Age category:
from 8 to 12 years old
Conditions:

Freely available

Parcours_Brrr_2019_print.pdf
Skull of Dunkleosteus marsaisi

Trail for Kids: Grrr

Target Audience(s):
Kids, Families

On the Grrr tour, you will test your powers of observation. Because if you want to know whether an animal is a carnivore or a herbivore, you have to look at its teeth – if it has any!

This tour is designed for families with children aged 6 to 12. It is a thematic route through three halls of the Museum of Natural Sciences: the Dinosaur Gallery, the Mosasaurs Room and the Evolution Gallery.

The tour is freely available in a pdf format below.

Age category:
from 6 to 12 years old
Conditions:

Freely available

Parcours_Grrr_2018.pdf
Trichopteryx dixoni

Free trail for Kids : Baby Animals

Target Audience(s):
Kids, Families

On this trail, you will meet baby animals from the past, present and future! Find the 6 letters of the mystery word and go to the MuseumShop to receive a special card. It will help you take funny photos of yourself, your family, your friends or your favorite animal!

The Baby Animals trail is designed for families with children aged 6 to 12. It is a thematic route through the Dinosaur Gallery, the Gallery of Evolution and BiodiverCITY. Approximate duration: 45 minutes.

The tour is trilingual (FR-NL-EN) and freely available in a printable pdf format below.

Age category:
from 6 to 12 years old
Conditions:

Freely available

Parcours_Baby animals_2017.pdf
Visual Trail "Our Masterpieces": two kids ready to follow a trail

Free trail for Kids: Our Masterpieces (6-8 / 9-12)

Target Audience(s):
Kids, Families

Modern and extinct animals, and even animals from the future, fossils, terrestrial and extraterrestrial minerals, humans and prehistoric objects. It’s clear that you need more than one visit to the Museum to see everything! But thanks to these trails you can already discover 12 of our Masterpieces.

The trails (6-8 years and 9-12 years) are thematic routes through the Dinosaur Gallery, the Mosasaur Hall, the Gallery of Evolution, the room 250 Years of Natural Sciences and the Gallery of Humankind. Approximate duration: 60 minutes.

They are in Dutch, French, English, German, Russian or Spanish. Each of them is available in a pdf format (check the 'Medias' section below).

Age category:
from 6 to 12 years old
Conditions:

Freely available

Trail_Masterpieces_6-8years.pdf
Trail_Masterpieces_9-12years.pdf
Parcours_Chefs-d'oeuvre_6-8ans.pdf
Parcours_Chefs-d'oeuvre_9-12ans.pdf
Parcours_Topstukken_6-8jaar.pdf
Parcours_Topstukken_9-12jaar.pdf
Kurs_Meisterwerke_6-8Jahren.pdf
Kurs_Meisterwerke_9-12Jahren.pdf
Curso_Maestras_6-8años.pdf
Curso_Maestras_9-12años.pdf
маршрут_Шедевры_6-8лет.pdf
маршрут_Шедевры_9-12лет.pdf
Our Natural Selection: short animation videos tell the story of six must-see exhibits in our Museum. (Image: RBINS)

Free trail on your smartphone: Our Natural Selection

Target Audience(s):
Kids, Families, Adults

Turn your smartphone into a video guide with the free izi.TRAVEL-app and check the 'Our Natural Selection' Tour. Animations and archive photos tell you the story of 6 of our must-see exhibits. Get to know them in a whole different way!

Featured in 'Our Natural Selection': the humpback whale in the entrance hall, the world famous Iguanodon of Bernissart, our “Sea rex” – a 12,5m long mosasaur! –, the primitive horse from Messel, the magnificent Mammoth from Lier and, last but not least, the Spy Man, a Belgian Neanderthal.

To watch these short videos on your smartphone or tablet, simply download them using the free izi.TRAVEL-app (there is a WiFi hotspot in our entrance hall). The app will lead you on a tour around the Museum for some 30 minutes and is available in EN, FR or NL. Or check YouTube.

Conditions:

Free

The Dinosaur Gallery in Street View

Walk online through our Museum thanks to Google

Target Audience(s):
Individuals

The Museum of Natural Sciences has created, specially for  the new ‘Natural History’ section in the Google Arts & Culture platform, 5  online exhibitions:

You will find out about the Museum’s finest specimens and curiosities, such as the Stone of Chaleux, the Lier Mammoth or the ‘Sea rex’ Hainosaurus bernardi. The stories are based on texts, photos, videos and Street Views and are available in French, Dutch, German and English, as well as Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian for the three first of them.

You will find, on the page dedicated to our Museum, the link to the complete Street View of its permanent exhibition spaces,  introducing almost 200 specimens and archive documents.

Moreover, “A Short Guided Tour”, a selection of the museum’s nicest spots, can even be visited in virtual reality, with a Google Cardboard! This experience can be enjoyed by all on the Google Arts & Culture mobile app.

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