{"id":325869,"date":"2026-05-21T07:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325869\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T07:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:21:21","slug":"bay-area-childrens-activities-dinos-alive-an-immersive-experience-opens-in-oakland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325869\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area children&#8217;s activities: &#8216;Dinos Alive: An Immersive Experience&#8217; opens in Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you\u2019re Nedry from \u201cJurassic Park,\u201d you probably think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2024\/02\/23\/meet-the-fossil-hunter-protecting-history-at-billion-dollar-bay-area-construction-projects\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dinosaurs are cool<\/a>. This spring and summer, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/tag\/events\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interactive exhibit<\/a> in Oakland will unleash a whole menagerie of cool dinosaurs upon the populace \u2014 turkey-sized velociraptors, spiky stegosaurs and of course big ol T-rex itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dinosaliveexhibit.com\/oakland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dinos Alive: An Immersive Experience<\/a>\u201d opened in May and will run through the summer at the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts, on the shore of Lake Merritt. \u201cDinos Alive is a time machine that takes you back millions of years,\u201d the organizers write. \u201cExplore the dense jungles of the Jurassic era and see the dinos in their natural habitat with the help of the latest VR technology and a fully decorated venue. You\u2019ll feel as if you\u2019ve stepped into another world!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The exhibit &quot;Dinos Alive: An Immersive Experience&quot; opened in May 2026 and will run through the summer at the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland, Calif. (Courtesy of &quot;Dinos Alive: An Immersive Experience&quot;)\" width=\"4176\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SJM-L-GOODTIMES-0527-01-1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"10795612\" \/>The exhibit \u201cDinos Alive: An Immersive Experience\u201d opened in May 2026 and will run through the summer at the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland, Calif. (Courtesy of \u201cDinos Alive: An Immersive Experience\u201d)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/tag\/arts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exhibit<\/a> features several dozen dinosaur animatronics that fully loom and roar, and a virtual aquarium stocked with swimming ancients. There\u2019s at least one dino children can actually ride for a cute photo. Plus, kids have their own \u201cBudding Experts\u201d interactive space where they can learn about paleontology, and even try to \u201ctame\u201d some iconic dinosaurs. Rawr, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Details: Open 9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday and 9:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday at 10 10th St., Oakland; $30 for adults, $26 for ages 4-12 (free for ages 3 or younger), <a href=\"https:\/\/dinosaliveexhibit.com\/oakland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">dinosaliveexhibit.com\/oakland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unless you\u2019re Nedry from \u201cJurassic Park,\u201d you probably think dinosaurs are cool. This spring and summer, an interactive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[135205,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-325869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-best-childrens-exhibit-museum-shows-science-san-francisco-bay-area-dinos-alive-immersive-experience-tickets-where-address-kaiser-arts-lake-merritt-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}