Dinosaurs in Svilajnac

Belgrade June 14. 2010. (Serbia Today) - Three to five million euros will be invested in the construction of the Natural History Center in Svilajnac. Visitors will be able to view dinosaur fossils. The center is approximately 3,000 square meters, including workshops and areas for scientific research, and will present an exhibition which will present replicas of dinosaurs, the original fossils and prehistoric animal display. Scientific and documentary films will take advantage of three-dimensional technology. The construction of the center should begin in the fall and be finished, The Svilajnac Municipality has prepared the project, and as the Minister of Science Bozidar Djelic, announced the state will support it.  It is important that science and technology are not concentrated in Belgrade and Novi Sad, so that children in the interior can see something interesting and learn much more", said the deputy prime minister. It is also planned to build a scientific and outdoor amusement park, which will contain life-size dinosaurs and a mock volcano. Besides the exhibition works, the center will be open to scientific meetings and cooperation of scientists, as well as for young researchers. At the entrance visitors will be able to see the development of the biosphere on Earth and the water world of prehistory, which will have 35 items. Three replica dinosaurs, and the original fossil motosaurusa, the oldest types of dinosaurs 245 million years old, will be located in the central part announced the tourism officer for the Municipality, Dragan Miladinovic. She added that the unit will be dedicated to petrified wood and petrified space with ancestors of today's animals.