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ABANDONED DINOSAUR MUSEUM PACKED WITH FOSSILS AND A T-REX FROZEN IN TIME
WITH PIX AND VID
By Shuk Yee Tsang
An urban explorer has uncovered a long-forgotten dinosaur museum complete with fossils, skeletons and a towering T-rex display.
The footage was filmed by Bob Thissen, 40, an animator and urban explorer from the Netherlands, during an exploration of a seemingly abandoned dinosaur museum in China.
Accompanied by fellow explorer Andrea, Thissen wandered through the silent halls of the former attraction, which once showcased prehistoric life on a massive scale.
Inside the museum, more than 100 skeletons and fossils remain scattered throughout multiple rooms.
Despite years of abandonment, many of the exhibits are still intact, creating an eerie, time-capsule atmosphere.
Still, the scale of the location and the sheer number of displays left behind make it a rare and striking discovery.
The highlight of the exploration is a T-rex skeleton dominating one of the main rooms, giving the abandoned museum the surreal feeling of a movie set frozen in time.
Bob Thissen said: “Inside we find a lot of skeletons, fossils and even a T-rex. It felt like stepping into the movie A Night in the Museum.
“When I found out there was an abandoned dinosaur museum, it attracted my attention because it was something I never explored before.
“When I was a kid, I was really into dinosaurs.
“There were easily over 100 skeletons and fossils in this abandoned museum.
“The highlight of the location was the skeleton of a T-rex. The bones were not real, but still impressive to see.
“The museum also housed some real fossils, which were amazing to observe.
“The skeletons upstairs felt a bit cheap and outdated. That’s probably why the museum got closed, it was too old-fashioned."
One viewer said: I can't say if I'm impressed, terrified or just sad that a museum got abandoned.”
Another viewer said, “Every abandoned place is a museum, but this was actually one before it was abandoned, that’s crazy.”
A third viewer said: “As a huge paleo-fan this is extra cool.”
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00:00In this episode we step inside an abandoned dinosaur museum.
00:05Massive skeletons, dusty fossils and even a t-rex are waiting to be discovered.
00:10Hi guys! Well in the past years I've seen thousands of abandoned places but today we're
00:17gonna visit something I've never seen before a dinosaur museum and that's something I really
00:23really liked when I was a kid so I'm looking forward to explore this location and see what
00:28we find there. Well I hope the dinosaurs inside the museum will be a bit bigger.
00:37Look at the face they are all friendly. They're really happy.
00:45A different part than we need to be. It's like a residential place.
00:50Nice. Let's go to the museum part. Seems all right.
01:00Really nice wall painting right? It looks like three-dimensional. It comes over the wall you see.
01:05Mm-hmm. Dinosaur is really cool. They are really here.
01:15In the Netherlands and Dutch it's called a stegosaurus. This is the dinosaur with the
01:19spikes on his tail to defend himself. The bones are not real. Yeah otherwise they wouldn't be here.
01:28I think it would be worth a few hundred million bucks. But it's still really cool to see.
01:36And they are really fast. Mm-hmm. And really dangerous.
01:40But according to this one it was a herbivore you see. No sharp teeth. That would be really scary.
01:48Yeah we saw what happened in Jurassic Park. Yeah. But this is a bit crazy. They are walking on lava.
01:54You see. Yeah it seems this place got vandalized. It's not typical Chinese right? Usually everything
02:07is in a good condition. The sounds of the dinosaurs. We usually see it in the hotels as well.
02:13Oh you see it? Yes. Oh what a mess of teeth. There I am. Knock it. It's here. I think it's here.
02:28Don't get eaten. Makes a nice tent. You're on his belly now. Yeah he didn't want to meet this guy.
02:39Yeah. Which holds these fake bones. And I think if we just push it it will crack. It's that rusty.
02:49Rusty and even when it's completely dry because it's not humid at all here right? No.
02:54It's awesome. Something similar like a rhino without the... Also yeah yeah yeah that one. Yeah I know
03:00what this one looks like. Then the exhibition area. Yeah. These drinking bottles.
03:09Oh it's a filter. Some kind of jewelry. Right. Also a jewelry store. There is something interesting
03:23that we can show on camera. Find a lot of things like these. Yeah you can see you are an experienced
03:32shopper. It's a shopper. It's to open all these cabinets. Show you our newest collection. The reading
03:40glass. Oh. Only glass there. There is still a dinosaur egg. We can make it happen.
03:48It's a tyrannosaurus rex. This one is still intact. Oh it's a ekeshosaurus. I think it's a small water dinosaur.
04:09Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Nice. It's not a cheap one I think. Right. It is a pretty good quality.
04:21Oh. Oh. There's something on it too eh.
04:28And here are some plants too. A fern right. Yeah. Fancy fern.
04:33We were talking about dinosaurs yesterday. I told you there were turtles as big as a car. And here we see one.
04:47No. I hear all kinds of noises.
04:53It looks like a velociraptor but it's a different one. A smaller one I think.
04:57Sinozauroptics or something like it. And here you can see they smashed everything. Stole everything.
05:09Oh here's a fish. I think I saw this one in the book.
05:14Oh yeah. And behind you there are also some nice fish.
05:22It's a giant squirrel. You see.
05:24Help. What side will she go?
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