Museums · 2026

Software and videos for the Amur Dinopark

Museums / Software and videos for the Amur Dinopark

About the project

Software and videos for five interactive installations at the Amur Dinopark in Blagoveshchensk: display cases with bones and palaeontologists’ tools, touch screens, and the “How much does a tyrannosaur eat?” scales.

On 6 June 2026 the Amur Dinopark opened on the Amur embankment in Blagoveshchensk — 462 m² in the Tribuna Hall city centre, between the House of Russian-Chinese Friendship and the Amur Seasons fair. It has more than twenty figures of prehistoric animals. The main figure is a ten-metre Amurosaurus that moves its head and tail. The dinopark is run by the Amur Region Hospitality Agency. The exhibition was created by another company, the general contractor for the project. The chief scientific consultant was palaeontologist Ivan Bolotsky.

We worked as a subcontractor to the general contractor and made the software for the interactive installations, the videos for the display cases with finds and palaeontologists’ tools, and the system used to change the content on the screens.

Year

2026

Industry

Museums

Scope of work

7 programs for 5 interactive installations, 12 videos, a content management system

Venue

Amur Dinopark, Tribuna Hall, Blagoveshchensk

5
interactive installations running our software: 12
videos for the “Whose bone?” and “Excavations” display cases: 06.06.2026
opening of the dinopark

A round frame from the idle loop “How dinosaurs are studied in Blagoveshchensk”: a young palaeontologist with a tablet by a map of Blagoveshchensk, a red marker on Nagornaya Street; on the left, a green button “Touch any object in the display case” — “Excavations”, idle loop: the Nagornaya Street site on the map of Blagoveshchensk

A round frame from the idle loop “How dinosaurs are studied in Blagoveshchensk”: a young palaeontologist and four dinosaur heads with labels — Amurosaurus riabinini, Kerberosaurus manakini, Olorotitan arharensis, Kundurosaurus nagornyi — “Excavations”, idle loop: four new genera and species — Amurosaurus, Kerberosaurus, Olorotitan, Kundurosaurus

The task

Blagoveshchensk is a city where dinosaur bones are found right within the city limits, on Nagornaya Street. Visitors needed to be shown how the bones are searched for and studied, and to be able to touch the finds. All in time for the opening in summer 2026, with two months for the work, from 20 March to 20 May.

What we did

“Palaeontologists’ base — Whose bone?”

Wall niches with five bones: a tyrannosaurid tooth, a velociraptor claw, an Amurosaurus ulna, a hadrosaur tail vertebra and an Olorotitan jaw. The visitor touches a bone, and its story begins on the round screen beside it. For the tyrannosaurid it is the tiny serrations that sliced through the prey’s carcass like a knife. For the Amurosaurus, an unhealed fracture: the lame animal survived because the herd looked after it. For the Olorotitan, a “dental battery”.

A round frame from the video: a young palaeontologist in a laboratory and a large black tyrannosaurid tooth with a serrated edge; a speech bubble about the tiny serrations — “Whose bone?”, the video about the tyrannosaurid tooth: tiny serrations

A round frame from the video: a young palaeontologist shows a fossilised Olorotitan jaw with dense rows of teeth — “Whose bone?”, the video about the Olorotitan jaw: a “dental battery”

A round frame from the video: a young palaeontologist against a herd of hadrosaurs by a swamp, with a tyrannosaur behind; a speech bubble says the lame animal’s kin took care of it — “Whose bone?”, the video about the Amurosaurus ulna: its kin looked after the lame animal

A round frame from the video: a young palaeontologist against a hadrosaur with velociraptors on it; a speech bubble about how they clung on with their claws — “Whose bone?”, the video about the velociraptor claw: velociraptors on a hadrosaur

“Excavations”

A display case of a palaeontologist’s working kit: tools for cleaning rock off bone, glue, plaster, a microscope, an air scribe. Touching a tool starts a video about a stage of the work at the Blagoveshchensk site: an excavation in soft clay, a plaster “jacket” for the bone, the laboratory, a CT scanner and a 3D model of the Amurosaurus brain.

In standby mode the screen explains how dinosaurs are studied in Blagoveshchensk: the dinosaur sites on Nagornaya Street and at Kundur, the regular excavations led by Yuri Bolotsky since the early 1980s, and the four new genera and species — Amurosaurus, Kerberosaurus, Kundurosaurus and Olorotitan.

These two installations have twelve videos: one for each object plus two idle loops. The host in all of them is a cartoon young palaeontologist.

A round frame from the “Plaster” video: a bone in the excavation wrapped in a plaster “jacket”, with the young palaeontologist beside it; a speech bubble about wet paper and hessian in the plaster — “Excavations”, the “Plaster” video: a plaster “jacket” on a bone in the excavation

A round frame from the “Microscope” video: a colour 3D model of the Amurosaurus brain on a laptop screen, with the young palaeontologist holding a tablet in front of it — “Excavations”, the “Microscope” video: a 3D model of the Amurosaurus brain

“Species diversity”

Two touch screens on the side walls of the portal: the diversity of dinosaur species, the drift of the continents from Pangaea to the present day on a rotating globe, and the spread of dinosaurs across the planet.

A globe in space: the single supercontinent Pangaea, with dinosaur figures placed across it — The “Species diversity” app interface: a globe with Pangaea and dinosaurs

A vertical touch screen: at the top, a world map with green markers for dinosaur tracks; below, a globe with dinosaurs under the heading “Travelling continents”; at the bottom, the young palaeontologist asks: “Pick one — what shall we play?” — The “Species diversity” app interface: the menu — “World map: dinosaur tracks” and “Travelling continents”

A vertical touch screen: a globe in space with dinosaur figures on the continents and a timeline slider beneath it; the young palaeontologist says: “This isn’t just a map — it’s a planet-sized puzzle!” — The “Species diversity” app interface: the “Travelling continents” game — the globe and the timeline

“World of herbivores — Species traits”

A touch screen with games about herbivorous dinosaurs: the structure of the jaws and skeleton, height and weight, habits, life in a herd or alone.

A vertical touch screen: three panels — the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods with landscapes and dinosaurs; the young palaeontologist invites players to tap the interactive areas, with a “Next” button on the right — The “World of herbivores” app interface: the “Evolution on a plate” game, choosing a period

A vertical touch screen: a stegosaurus in a fern forest, its skeleton showing through under a magnifying glass, with a “Teeth” marker beside it; the young palaeontologist explains that the dinosaur swallowed prickly plants rather than chewing them — The “World of herbivores” app interface: “Evolution on a plate”, the Jurassic period — a stegosaurus under the magnifying glass

A vertical touch screen: a triceratops among flowering magnolias, its skeleton highlighted, a magnifying glass by its head; the young palaeontologist says that flowering plants are like dessert after dinner — The “World of herbivores” app interface: “Evolution on a plate”, the Cretaceous period — a triceratops under the magnifying glass

“How much does a tyrannosaur eat?”

Scales with a screen: the visitor steps onto the scales, the head of an animatronic predator peers out of the jungle, moves and roars, and the screen shows how many such visitors the predator would need to eat. The predator figure is the work of the general contractor; the software is ours.

Entrance area and content management

The screen at the entrance shows an overview video, the schedule, ticket prices and dinopark events. The materials on the screens are changed through a content management system, which we also made.

How it is built

In “Whose bone?” an infrared frame detects a touch on a bone, and the software starts the video on the screen beside it. While nobody touches the objects, an idle loop plays. “Excavations” works the same way.

The “Whose bone?” and “Excavations” videos are square, 1280×1280, to fit the round screen. They combine drawn scenes, photographs of finds, footage from the excavations and 3D models.

The drift of the continents is an animation of the globe based on maps of the Earth in different periods.

Result

The general contractor accepted the work on 20 May 2026. From 21 to 24 May the dinopark ran in test mode, and on 6 June it opened to visitors. In its first nine days it had 6480 visitors.