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Can someone tell me about Crystal Palace where the dinosaur museum is?

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1. A great place i like to call Imagination
2. There is no museum but there are statues of dinosaurs throughout the park. They were created by Benjamin Hawkins and were for the Great Exhibition, which showcased the latest technology of the time. Although the models may seem highly out of date at the time they were the latest interpretations of the scant data availible about prehistoric animals. The palace was relocated after 6 months and burned down in 1936, with only the foundations intact. The site is now a park. As for museums, I recomend the British Natural History Museum's dinosaur exhibit.
3. Okay, what do you want to know? It's in SE London. It has seen better times. There is a chapter about it in a book I highly recommend called "Bollocks to Alton Towers" which lists a whole raft of weird & wonderful sights and destinations in the UK. I have never been, but my wife has, and she took a bunch of photographs, and if I recall correctly I said, whilst looking through the photo's "I'm glad I didn't go, it looks crap".
4. Crystal Palace is in south-east London, in the borough of Bromley As mentioned above, the dinosaurs are not actually in a museum. The models are situated around the lake in Crystal Palace public park, and are very popular with children. The prehistoric monsters, 33 in total, were built in 1854 under the guidance of Professor Richard Owen, who invented the word ‘dinosaur’. These first-ever full-size dinosaurs were created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, an expert on geology and extinct animals, who constructed the models based on fossils kept in the British Museum. It is now known, however, that many errors were made, especially in Owen’s masterpiece, the Iguanodon. The Iguanodon's rhinoceros-type horn located on the its nose was, in fact, a kind of spiky thumb