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ADDRESS

Dinosaurs: The Immersive Odyssey, Crescent Rd - Al Kheeran - Dubai Festival City - Dubai - United Arab Emirates

RECOMMENDED DURATION

1 hour

Timings

10:30–21:30

TICKETS

From $21.51

EXPECTED WAIT TIME - STANDARD

30-60 mins (Peak), 0-30 mins (Off Peak)

Plan your visit

Did you know?

The Museum’s Reserves zone is inspired by real museum storage vaults, giving visitors a rare peek into the world of paleontologists.

The VR Odyssey is a free-roaming experience—guests walk through a digital Jurassic landscape, not just watch from a seat.

Animatronic dinosaurs in the sanctuary zone are so lifelike that children often react with genuine awe and excitement.

Why is Dinosaurs: The Immersive Odyssey a must-visit attraction in Dubai?

Dinosaurs: The Immersive Odyssey is Dubai's only experience to combine free-roam VR, life-sized animatronics, and a museum-style paleontology intro in a single guided hour. Engaging enough for teenagers and not frightening for children as young as four, it works equally well as a family outing or a school field trip.

What to see at Dinosaurs: The Immersive Odyssey?

The Museum's Reserves

Your journey begins at a faithful recreation of a natural history museum's storage and reserve area. Fossils, skeletal casts, and paleontology artefacts are displayed as they would be in the behind-the-scenes areas of a working museum. This zone introduces the history of paleontology and explains how fossils are discovered, preserved, and studied. Allow 10–15 minutes here.

VR Odyssey

Visitors are fitted with VR headsets where they are transported to the Jurassic era to walk among life-sized dinosaurs in their natural habitat. You physically move through the space, and the VR environment responds to your movement. A guided audio narrative plays throughout, providing facts about dinosaur behaviour, habitats, and evolution. The VR arena is available for guests aged 6 and above. Allow 15–20 minutes for this zone.

Virtual to Reality

After the VR experience, you enter a physical sanctuary where the dinosaurs from your virtual journey now exist as life-sized animatronic creatures set within naturalistic forested habitats. The animatronics move, react, and create immersive encounters designed to bridge the gap between the virtual and physical worlds. The guide pauses at each animatronic for interaction and photography. Allow 10–15 minutes here.

Creative Play and Gift Shop

The final zone is a bright, family-friendly space with interactive activities and the experience's gift shop. The standout attraction is an AR drawing activity where visitors colour a dinosaur sketch and then watch it come to life as a moving animated dinosaur on a display screen. At the shop, check out a wide range of dinosaur-themed merchandise including toys, books, games, and plush figures. Allow 10–20 minutes.

Highlights of Dinosaurs: The Immersive Odyssey?

Visitors enjoying VR experience at Dinosaurs: The Immersive Odyssey with museum fossil storage access.

Free-roaming VR arena

You physically walk through a Jurassic environment rather than watching it on a screen. It's one of the only free-roam VR experiences of its kind in Dubai.

Dinosaur skeleton exhibit with informational panels at immersive VR museum experience.
Family experiencing dinosaur VR with fossil display at museum exhibit.
Visitors in VR headsets exploring Dinosaurs: The Immersive Odyssey exhibit with wall art.
Visitors interacting with a dinosaur model at Dinosaurs: The Immersive Odyssey VR Experience.

Frequently asked questions about Dinosaurs: The Immersive Odyssey

It is a fully guided, multi-zone immersive experience that takes visitors through four sequential zones: a recreation of a museum's storage area, a free-roaming VR arena set in the Jurassic era, a physical animatronic encounter zone, and a creative play and gift shop area. The full experience takes 45 to 60 minutes and is accompanied by a guide throughout.