Dinosaur Walk Museum -- Pigeon Forge

If you are visiting the Smokey Mountains for a family fun filled weekend, be sure to take time to visit the Dinosaur Walk Museum, in Pigeon Forge TN. At the Dinosaur Walk Museum in Pigeon Forge you will have the chance to come face-to-face and encounter some of the most dangerous Dinosaurs known to man. You and your family can see one of the world’s largest collections of prehistoric animals, ranging from the two-story-high Tyrannosaurus Rex to a tiny 12-inch tall Microraptor on your Pigeon Forge family vacation. Other exhibits at the museum include giant sea lizards, flying reptiles, and replicas of bones, skulls, and skeletons of ancient prehistoric creatures. The dinosaurs at the museum are not just old artifacts found from the existence of these giants, but life size sculptures.

The dinosaurs at the Dinosaur Walk Museum are created by some of the world’s greatest paleo-artists. These artists use actual fossils, footprints, and other historical information to re-create the dinosaurs to look life like again. The artist start with the skeletons of the dinosaurs by using wood. The wooden skeleton is then covered in clay substance and sculpted to the dinosaur’s body. This size is the actually size dinosaurs were when they roamed the earth. Production began on some of the pieces over a decade ago, when the dream of having a museum in the Pigeon Forge area was born. Transporting the dinosaurs required careful packing of full-size semi trucks. The larger dinosaurs are put together, like a giant puzzle, at the museums.