Easter gets prehistoric with dinosaur egg hunt in Portland

Portland Press Herald

PORTLAND — On Easter Sunday at the Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine, it was the dinosaurs who had risen. 

Hundreds of small children ran throughout the museum’s three floors on the hunt for the thousand of “dinosaur eggs” hidden throughout the play structures, discovery tables and science displays. 

The museum’s annual Dino Egg Hunt is always popular, as evidenced this year by the hordes of children in their Easter best – and Easter pajamas –  and the adults trailing after them in bunny ears. Running Friday through Sunday, each two-hour hunt brought in more than 300 visitors, said Matt McDermit, the museum’s director of marketing and communications.

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