14 September 2011 Last updated at 16:27

Take a Planet Dinosaur Tour

The Planet Dinosaur tour is coming to a city near you

More types of dinosaur have been discovered in the last two decades than in the 200 years before.

Many of these discoveries are from places we never realised even had dinosaurs.

The opening up of China, exploration in the Arctic and the Antarctic and prospecting in the Sahara has led to the discovery of a new generation of bigger, badder and more bizarre dinosaurs.

This autumn the BBC will bring these incredible new dinosaurs to life, encouraging audiences to take their own investigative journey into the fascinating world of prehistory and palaeontology.

BBC Learning has joined up with museums and science centres across the UK to embark on a BBC Planet Dinosaur Tour for 56 days throughout October to November.

• Discover activities for all ages across the UK run by the BBC and trusted partners including museums and galleries near you

At the dinosaur experience people will be able to build large-scale reproductions of Spinosaurus, the largest ever known land predator.

And learn more about the dinosaurs in the TV series and participate in additional learning activities at each museum.

Everyone is welcome, especially families.

Specifically the Tour aims to encourage people to:

• Understand the role of palaeontologists through scientific enquiry

• Explore the links between Spinosaurus and other dinosaurs

• Learn when dinosaurs lived and how that time-line relates to human evolution

Tour starts on 1st October and travels across the UK as follows:

TOUR DATE	TOUR LOCATION
1st - 9th Oct	At the Manchester Museum at the University of Manchester
10th - 16th Oct	At the Great North Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne
17th - 23rd Oct	At the Glasgow Science Centre, Glasgow
24th - 30th Oct	At the Natural History Museum, London
1st - 6th Nov	At the W5 Interactive Discovery Centre, Belfast
8th - 14th Nov	At the World Museum, Liverpool
15th - 20th Nov	At the Techniquest Science Discovery Centre, Cardiff
21st - 27th Nov	At the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford