Reviews of Dino Lab Inc. (Museum)

Jonathan Lee

Awesome place! Great staff and an amazing chance to see unique and rare fossils up close!

Donal Duncan

Absolutely amazing! The number of fossils and pieces that we could hold and touch and get up close to was incredible. Totally worth it. My 6yo will be talking about this for a while! Thanks so much!

Bev Knight

Wonderful adventure for any age.

Cross Best

I cannot say enough in praise about this amazing experience and the dedicated team that run it. I wish I could go there every day. In the top 3 best days in this dinosaur - lovers life. Take your friends, grandparents, kids and just experience. I have never met a more devoted, sweet, thoughtful, compassionate, fossil obsessed team of people. My husband and I went there for our 3rd wedding anniversary a month ago (we're in Vancouver) and went back the day after. They also sell gorgeous fossils, along with letting you excavate your own. I've told everyone who will listen about Dino Lab, we can't wait to go back and touch more fossils. Shaun B and Heather C send their love ( and cookies soon!) One billion stars.

Yoda Perron

Had the most rad time digging up ancient fossilized teeth and learning about dinos that are way too old! Mathew is a dino knowledge wizard!

Paul Orgnero

Omg.. Omg... OMG!! Today we had a guided tour of the lab. The SECCOND I looked inside the door I was speachless! Confronted by the world's second most complete tyrannosaurus rex (Victoria), the allosaurus, the... No.. I wont say anymore... Just go experience this!! These guys know their stuff! The guide will tell you things you never thought possible. Show you things you never thought you would be holding in your own hands!! Have you ever held a t-rex tooth, stegasaurus spikes from the tail, touched a sabertooth tiger skull? I have... I can hardly believe I'm saying that!! How on earth?!? Only here can this magic happen! We even got to sit in the lab and work on bones ourselves! I could go on forever but its just to much to write!!! Thankyou dinolabs for an experience we will hold in our hearts for the rest of our lives! Oh, and we will be back! Oh yes, we will be back!

Robyn Beeching

So much fun! Staff were super friendly and informative. Learned a lot and got to touch, hold and clean different fossils!

Pam B

A working dino laboratory, not a museum. You get to see and touch actual finds as the excavate it from it's encasement. They also have some lovely specimens to share and lots of knowledge. You then get to try your hand at using the tools of the trade to excavate a fossil. The gift store has some neat things and top notch collector items for sale!

Jessyca Reid

So awesome! Spent the better part of our morning seeing fossils and bones in different states. All between completed to being freshly started. It felt like walking in a "behind the scenes" of a museum, but better as it was really hands on. Some really cool and unique pieces to check out. My husband and I really enjoyed our tour with our little one. We're definitely going to bring some friends and come back again. And again.

Gareth Speight

Just wrapped up my first tour with Dino Lab. What an unbelievable experience, exceeded my expectations in every way. Our tour guide was extremely knowledgeable, fun to engage with, and the exhibits themselves were incredibly impressive. I have been to other dinosaur museums before and nothing compares to the hands on nature of the experience at Dino Lab. I cannot recommend this enough. And if you are visiting Victoria, or simply looking for something new to do, this is a must see attraction!

sara nuell

Went for my first time today and was blown away! They have incredible fossils and their knowledge is amazing! They follow amazing covid protocols so you feel safe but it doesn't take away from the experience at all and our tour guide was fantastic. I was able to work on fossils which was an incredible experience that I never thought possible. Will definitely be back and can't wait to see what else they bring in. This was the perfect addition to Victoria.

Anne Sylwester

Very cool and interesting. To be able to touch a dinosaur bone 65+million years ago. Fascinating! Cleaning the teeth was such an experience.

Jean Sauvé

Hidden gem doesn't even describe it! This place is incredible, and you should go there every time you visit Victoria! Loved the experience. 10/10

Alexis Born

My friends came here today and absolutely loved it! They were even offered a private tour after a customer complained about them having Alberta license plates (even though we recently moved to BC). Kat offered them a private tour and they got to work on the fossils! I cant wait to come to this place and check it out myself!

Grant fahlman

Absolutely amazing...an experience you will have LITERALLY no where else in the world...forget the "Don't touch" signs...Terry and the staff encourage you to touch and experience dinosaurs like you never have before!!! Book a tour for yourself or your group, see the amazing museum and ACTUALLY unearth dinosaur bones from clay taken from dig sites. You are the 1st person EVER to see and touch these amazing treasures....honestly an amazing experience whether you like dinosaurs or not....BUCKET LIST STUFF!!!!

Glenn MacDonald

Amazing. You got to touch real dinosaur bones!! Our guide Kathrine was also amazing, passionate and extremely knowledgeable. 12/10 would reccomend

Tina Tulloch

This place is just amazing. We are so lucky to have this in our city. Hands on dinosaur experience with truly innovative presentations and lots of one of a kind things to see.

Jennifer A

I love dinos so I dragged my two friends along with me to share the love, and we had so much fun and learned a lot! Our tour guide, K, was so passionate and professional. We had degrees in biology, so it was really cool being able to talk about things like speculating about dino behaviours, cause of death for certain dinos based on their fossils, and the function of certain body parts that are similar to parts we see in creatures today. She loved our questions and gave such thorough answers! They had so many real fossils, I'm surprised they aren't more known.

Tony Joe

Amazing visit! My kids loved it, especially my 9 yr old aspiring scientist. Working on bones in lab coats with real tools was a highlight. I would recommend to anyone, especially kids and adults alike looking for an up close experience not found in museums. Kathryn Abbott was great. Highly recommended!

Jessi Carr

Wonderful experience! Our guide was super knowledgable and engaging. We had a lot of fun and look forward to coming back!

Sean Daniel

Tour was amazing. Staff are fantastic. Had my daughters birthday party here and the 2 hours disappeared in fun. The kids loved it.

Aaron Brandt

Phenomenal staff, displays, and dinosaurs!

Bryan Greaves

very interesting place. My little one loved touching the various fossils. She said the explanations for each fossil was a bit boring (she just wanted to touch everything) but I personally found it quite interesting. Highly recommended.

K J

Dino Labs was incredible! An informative and interactive experience that takes you behind the glass of conventional museums; allowing you to touch (yes, you get to hold real dinosaur bones) and engage with the fossils. I will definitely be going back.

Jennifer Murphy

Covid postponed our bday party for our 6 year old. Dino Lab went out of their way to make it special for him. They had a group show up in inflated Dino costumes and dance in front of our building. He's danced around the house with excitement for the rest of the day. He's a happy boy with a postponed party. Thank you so much Dino Lab! You're amazing!!!!

33 screaming frogs

:) staff and guides were very friendly and informative. coolest birthday ever!!!

Juaning Higgins

Immersive experience with a very personable staff . Katherine is incredibly knowledgeable and amplified the narrative and transported our group the prehistoric times. This place is at first sight closed quarters but comfortably close to REAL DINOSAURS & when you enter you will find the expanse of space and how open your mind will have you in a new world . This place amazingly curated for curiosity and absolutely a WORLD CLASS EXPERIENCE.

Stephen Slemko

My wife and I had a wonderful experience at Dino Lab. It's amazing that we were able to go visit museum quality dinosaur bones without leaving town. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable about the specimens present with plenty of interesting facts. I highly recommend you check them out. Being able to touch some specimens was not expected, but very much appreciated. And getting a chance to practice extraction on some samples made my day!

Jenn P

such an amazing experience!! our tour guide Kat was fantastic and super passionate. this is such a unique experience and I highly recommend checking it out. really cool to be able to see the process involved in removing and mounting real dinosaur bones.

Jenny Belanger-Borysiak

What an awesome experience we had at Dino Lab! Matthew our guide was so dynamic and enthusiastic. He had a wealth of knowledge and kept us very interested, which is not always easy for a 5 year old. The covid restrictions in place were perfect and we felt safe the entire time with multiple sanitizer stations and physical distance the entire time! My son loved learning all the cool facts but was super amazed by being able to excavate some fossils. Fantastic experience all the way around! Thank you to the entire team!

Craig & Jess Cedar

What a cool experience! We took our 5 year old for his birthday, and he had a blast. Kay was our tour guide and she was great! She's extremely knowledgeable and passionate about what she does. The hands-on fossil experience was a lot of fun and very memorable. We will definitely be back!

Daniel-André Delorme (Betadan)

Great food and service as always. Really appreciated the air conditioning during the heat wave.

Karynn Scott

So much fun!! So cool, and very interactive The 6 year old loved it too!

Erin Edler

So amazing to have something like this in Victoria! Very friendly and knowledgeable staff. We celebrated a fifth birthday here and had the entire place to ourselves. The kids (and the adults!) had an amazing time.

Nick McGeachie

Absolutely loved Dino Lab! We went for my niece's 7th birthday party and I was blown away by how interactive it was for the kids. They were holding and touching fossils that were millions of years old - and many of them quite rare. The kids were very impressed and I'd like to think they were inspired to be the next generation of scientists!

Jeff Somerville

Amazing. Who knew this was in Victoria? Well worth a visit.

Quentonitron

We went for the tour and got to touch real dinosaur skeletons! There was even a piece of very heavy real tusk(not petrified) from a mammoth that was preserved in northern permafrost which everyone was allowed to lift a little bit while our tour guide held it in his arms. Part of the tour includes doing some supervised work on real fossils! Our tour guide Jake was awesome!

Lps Freak show

My daughter and I had such a wonderful time. Its a must see, I promise you will not be disapointed!!

Angela Ung

This was one of the best things I've ever experienced for a family activity to do. We were so amazed by the information and hands on experience on dinosaur bones and other fossils we got to see and hold. It is definitely a place my family and I will be coming back to and letting our friends know about as well. Thanks Dino lab ????

Kristie Poersch (Rabbitasaur)

Amazing place with great hands on displays and informative friendly staff. A must see for any dino lover!

Rachel Muir

Loved getting to handle real dino fossils (and real fossilized dino poop!). We had such a great time with our fun and enthusiastic tour guide Matthew! :)

Luca Dell'Isola

My kids loved this place and I had a great time as well. Kudos to Matthew, he took us through ton's of details and aswered so many questions ! A great learning experience and a lot of fun!

Jeremy Hannaford

This is definitely one of the coolest museum experiences I've ever gotten to do and you really only go into three rooms. The highly experienced and well versed staff show you a wide array of fossils stretching from several thousand to hundreds of millions of years old. I head a shark tooth in my hand that was 10+ million years old. I held a piece of a mammoth tusk that was several thousand years old and it weighed a ton! While I must imagine the stress level of letting people hold on to these fossils can get a bit high, it is amazing to be able to hold and inspect these fossils with your own two hands. They had a triceratops being exhumed in their main hangar and we got to touch a small section of it. Once all this is over, they take you into another room and they let you "excavate" a fossil piece with air brush tools. I was honestly very nervous doing it as I didn't want to ruin the actual fossil but some people were really enjoying it. It is definitely worth every penny and if you or your kids have any interest in this field, this is definitely the place to go!

Blair Campbell

What an amazing experience! We had a wonderful and very informative tour of their facilities, touched real dinosaur bones and were able to work in the lab cleaning off some specimens. Would definitely recommend this to all Dino enthusiasts!

Phillip Tallack

It seems expensive. Then you see what they have and the concept of money is replaced with wonder. If your love dinosaurs or are even curious. You. Have. To. Go!

j lowe

Amazing experience!!! I am a secondary school biology teacher and have several students very keen on evolution and prehistoric life. I thought they needed exposure to a learning environment in addition to what I could give them, so I decided to take them to Dino Lab and it was so worth it! They were all blown away by the experience, even a few of them who have extensive knowledge on prehistoric animals as well as experience visiting other paleontology museums. A couple quotes: "This is better than the Tyrell Museum!" As they sat to the table to work on the fossils, "I think this is the best thing I have ever done." Our tour guide Owen was so great and clearly so engaged in the conversation with my students. He asked great guiding questions which the students were excited to hypothesize on. His interactions showed that he is, not only an awesome tour guide, but also a skilled teacher. Thank you so much Owen and everyone else at Dino Lab for such a great day!

Bruce McAllister

Definitely worth doing. Matt is an excellent tour guide.

Stephanie Antunes

Great personal and intimate experience with REAL dinosaur bones.

Adam Averill

Amazing experience. Had no idea this was even in Victoria. The tour was amazing and what a great experience seeing all the types of dinosaurs. Our daughter had a blast and is still talking about it!! Highly recommend.

Ryan Fransen

Amazing. Like a mini Tyrell Museum except you get a very knowledgeable private tour guide, and is literally hands on. Very cool place.

Ajit A

A wonderful place to gain knowledge and also once in a lifetime experience of interacting with actual dino fossils that are millions of years old... Mathew is a great guide with wide knowledge about the specimens and a lot of fun facts that he shared during the tour...

Jon Sinclair

This place is a Dino lover's dreamland. Jake was awesome, knowledgeable and was able to answer all our questions. Having a guide as well as actually getting to touch and hold real bones made this much more enjoyable than just seeing an exhibit.

Keira Gurry

I took my 10 year old dino enthusiast for a tour today. We both had a great time. There was so many amazing specimens and our guide Owen was a wealth of knowledge. Thank you dino lab ????

Helen H.

Took my newly married daughter and son-in-law to this. We all had a simply fabulous time. This is such an interesting and interactive experience. Great at any age. A truly wonderful addition to Victoria's what to do.

Kimberlee Wenner

Hidden gem. Took my 6 year old nephew and he loved it. Got to hold actual dinosaur bones. Never knew this place existed. It is on the pricey side but it was an amazing experience. Kay or “K” did a great job and keeping up with his 6 year old interests. My favourite was working in the lab at the end using a pen drill to drill out the bones. I would love to go back and just do that. It was so therapeutic and rewarding.

Peter van Hardenberg

Incredible experience. I touched a Tyrannosaurus Rex skull with my hands, and watched nervously as my five year old did too. Unbelievable. Just go. Go right now. Yes, you. Go.

Karin

This is a must do for dinosaur enthusiasts of any age. The tour of the specimens is interesting and very informative. You can touch and feel these prehistoric bones...amazing At the end of the tour you get to go into the lab and actually work on fossils! The experience is fun, professional, and personal! Highly recommend!

Danyne Davey

Amazing place! My 4 year old loved it and so did I!

Tessa Starrak

We visited Dino Labs yesterday and did our tour with Matthew. He was absolutely fantastic! Very knowledgeable, personable, accommodating, and went out of his way to give us the best experience possible. The lab itself was also fantastic. It had a ton of amazing fossils and was very hands on. We can't wait to go back!

Mara Lindland

Amazing experience! Our guide (Kalene) was absolutely incredible! So patient and kind with the kids but also made the learning experience so much fun!! It's also just an awesome date idea we've done a few times ♥️ Definitely highly recommend this place! It will for sure be a tourist destination once word gets out! So many things to see, touch, and lots of hand on experience. Please support this amazing place!!

Jasmine Robichaud

We loved our tour with Matthew! As two adults we weren’t sure what to expect but I would definitely recommend this for kids & adults! We learned so much & getting to actually work on a fossil was such a cool experience. So glad we found out about this hidden gem! Would definitely recommend in general & try to get Matthew for a tour! 10/10!

J

Owen was an amazing guide! He's a very smart guy and now I feel like I know all the rare and unique dinosaur facts. I also really enjoyed the calmness of Owen's presence. I would definitely return back to Dino Labs. TOTALLY WORTH THE VISIT!!

Celina H

The most amazing experiemce anybody will ever have with dinosaurs unless you are a paleontologist yourself. If you want an actual extraordinarily life-changing experience then THIS is the place to go. I cannot even begin to fully express how amazing the experiemce at dino labs was. Honestly you just have to experiemce it yourself to really know. It will take your breath away

Carla Walsh

A very cool experience for my 7 year-old! The staff were incredibly friendly and welcoming, and took their time to get to know my son's interests and cater the tour to those.

Jenn Rempel

Our family had a great time. The tour was informative and interactive. The kids loved being able to touch and hold the fossils asthere are very few places that allow this. It was a unique experience that will not be forgotten. Thank you!

M H

I'm not sure if I LOVE this place more or my kids did? haha! What a great way to spend an afternoon or have a birthday party!!! We all loved it and it's great for all ages

Kaitlyn Mains

My 2 sons and Husband went this past week and loved it!! They wish we lived in Victoria so we could go more often!! Amazing for any dino lover!

A Miller

Such a cool place. Very hands on which is rare for this type of exhibit. I recommend.

Vicki P

Sounds great and their social media is well run but I have not personally been able to visit the lab because of the covid gong show. I can't wait til I can!!

Simon Grounds

Great experience, fun for kids and adults. Really great tour and super knowledgeable guide