Dinosaurs from Brussels science museum now on Google Street View

Anyone wanting to visit the dinosaur skeletons at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels can now do so online, using Google Maps. Google has developed its Street View function over the last few years to allow searchers access to a number of interior locations as well as the usual exterior views.

Those locations have now been extended to include 60 partners worldwide, including natural history museums in Brussels, Berlin, Chicago and Barcelona. The Brussels museum, with its exhibition of Iguanodon skeletons, is listed as one of the service’s Top Picks.

“One of our missions is to bring scientific knowledge to a broader public, and to make our collections more accessible,” said museum director Camille Pisani.

The Iguanodon fossils were unearthed in the late 19th century at a depth of 322 metres in what was then a coal mine in Bernissart. The intact state of the remains attracted the attention of palaeontologists the world over.

Photo: Thierry Hubin/RBINS