At four in the morning of March 8, 1993, I was so tired that Carvalho Galopimthen director of the National Museum of Natural History, gave up and let in everyone who was outside. And there were many. The queue for the last day of the exhibition Dinosaurs Return to Lisbon, inaugurated on December 19th, arrived at Príncipe Real, in Lisbon. It was the height of “dynomania” which, for 11 weeks, attracted more than 346 thousand visitors to Rua da Escola Politécnica, coming from all regions of the country, to see and hear the mechanical replicas of prehistoric beings created by the Japanese company Kokoro. Once the doors were open, there was a mix of day-trippers and night owls coming from the bars in the area.
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