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It's the end of an era.
Dippy the dinosaur has left the building.
Gifted to King Edward VII in 1905, a 70 foot long cast of a fossilised dinosaur skeleton discovered in America has been on display at London's Natural History Museum for more than a century.
It's become the country's most recognisable museum exhibit - seen by an estimated 90 million people.
Now it's being replaced by the real skeleton of a giant blue whale...Dippy's 292 plaster cast bones setting off instead on a nationwide tour.
On Profile this week, Mark Coles examines how Dippy the replica Diplodocus has become a national treasure.
Producer Smita Patel
By BBC Radio 44.1
9797 ratings
It's the end of an era.
Dippy the dinosaur has left the building.
Gifted to King Edward VII in 1905, a 70 foot long cast of a fossilised dinosaur skeleton discovered in America has been on display at London's Natural History Museum for more than a century.
It's become the country's most recognisable museum exhibit - seen by an estimated 90 million people.
Now it's being replaced by the real skeleton of a giant blue whale...Dippy's 292 plaster cast bones setting off instead on a nationwide tour.
On Profile this week, Mark Coles examines how Dippy the replica Diplodocus has become a national treasure.
Producer Smita Patel

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