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A T-Rex skeleton sold for more than US$31.8m (€28.9m, £25m) in 2020 has found a new home as the centrepiece of the upcoming Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi.
| 25 Mar 2022
A T-Rex skeleton sold for more than US$31.8m (€28.9m, £25m) in 2020 has found a new home as the centrepiece of the upcoming Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi.
The dinosaur, named ‘Stan’, measures 13 feet high and 40 feet wide, with the impressive skeleton - considered to be one of the largest and most complete skeletons of its kind - comprised of 188 original bones.
The skeleton was sold to an anonymous buyer in 2020 at a Christie’s auction, with the originally-projected price of US$6-8m passed by some way.
Following a year-and-a-half silence, the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism revealed that Stan will find a new home at the new museum, which is currently under construction and expected to open in 2025. The under-development museum has ambitious plans to chronicle the history of life on Earth, with a focus on the Arabian Peninsula’s flora and fauna, and the broader 13.8-billion-year story of the universe.
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