It took two years of brainstorming… And finally they they did it! Copenhagen is the new site for a fabulous new version of Hatching the Past: http://video.ku.dk/dinosaurfamilier. The Danish team from the National Museum of Natural History have worked very hard adapting a venerable ancient building (originally the Museum of Geology) notoriously difficult to re-adjust for events like this. But with the magisterial Scandinavian knowledge of the use of space and light, they have helped highlight Peter Norton’s Gondwana Studios work. which includes my own, turning the exhibition in yet another different kind of Dinosaur eggs and babies event.
Two days ago I had the privilege to be invited to attend and talk at the opening, together with (among many others) the Museum Director Prof. Peter C. Kjaergaard, Head of Exhibitions Dr. Juliette M Frisch, Director of the University of Copenhagen Jesper Olesen. I’m glad I hadn’t lost my voice by then… later I wasn’t that lucky!
Right from the start, crowds of kids were already colouring some of my own sketches that I had adapted from the Holtz/Rey Dinosaurs. The Most Complete Encyclopedia… some of them were doing a better job than myself!…
When the Magovern’s (Charlie and Flo from StoneCo.) started this exhibition many years ago in Colorado, I bet they didn’t dream things would go this far! Our friends in Copenhagen also have been specially kind to me and this is the first time I even get to be photo-credited (scary as that might look!)…
The illustrations became perfectly printed murals once again, as good and as big as any of the previous efforts in Cardiff, London and Glasgow … with some newly requested additions as you can see!
But the greatest reward is seeing all this work so much appreciated by so many kids, They will keep coming every day relishing every minute of the activities… including not only painting dinosaurs but a non-digital, hands-on exhibition, touching the eggs and specimens, something that is very much appreciated in places like Denmark. As you can see my partner Carmen Naranjo was having also a field day there!
So THANK YOU Peter C. Kjaergaard, Mogens Trolle, Rikke Sanderhoff Mørch, Christina Ritzl, Søren Ajspur, Finn Storgaard, Karsten Elmose Vad , Rasmus Jangaard, Jens Astrup, Rikke Riemann, Gert Balslev, Anders Drud and his media team, Bent Lindow, Maja Balle and the kids Vitous and Mingus, Marie Rubæk Holm, Christopher Jacob Ries for their care and hospitality …and so many others, specially the people that worked in the design and construction of the new galleries… good job!
I want to try coloring too!
Can I get some colorful sketches, too?
Hi Luis
Our paleontology professor, Bent Lindow, took our class on a tour of the new exhibition at the museum, and I am sure I wasn’t the only one in awe of your crazy beautiful illustrations and the amazing colours on all of them. Several of us couldn’t stop admiring them. They are definetely something I would love to have on my walls at home. So yeah, I just wanted to let you know. Big fan.
Cheers from a 2nd year geology student, and aspiring paleontologist, from the University of Copenhagen