Palaeoart workshop: Reconstructing Megalosaurus

Palaeoartist Andy Frazer will lead a workshop at the Lapworth Museum on reconstructing Megalosaurus bucklandii, the first dinosaur to ever be formally named.

When: Tuesday 4th February 2025, 6pm-8:30pm

Where: Lapworth Museum Education Room

The workshop is open to everyone, from beginners to those more experienced in palaeoart. Paper and pencils will be provided for participants, as well as some light refreshments.

The workshop will focus on creating two sketch portraits of Megalosaurus bucklandii.

Using the available fossil evidence, and our current understanding of this animal, we’ll work from the bones outward, exploring how the fossil data, and the inferred musculature and soft tissue influence the reconstruction.

As well as using the known data, we’ll also consider all the unknown elements - those which are not preserved in the fossil record - and explore how these “unknowns” provide scope for speculative reconstruction, and can thus produce radically different, diverse, yet still credible interpretations. Megalosaurus - whose skull is only known in fragmentary form - provides the ideal subject for this.

The workshop is capped at 20 spaces. Book your free space on Eventbrite.

Andy Frazer is the palaeoartist behind the artwork in our current temporary exhibition – Bringing dinosaurs back to life: 200 years of research. Visit Andy's website for more information on his work.