This year, the Jardin des Plantes is hosting a new edition of its famous lantern trail, entitled “Jurassic on the Way to Illumination”. To be discovered from November 20 to January 19, 2024, this exhibition takes us back in time this year. Monumental prehistoric creatures come to life through majestic light sculptures, transforming the park into a veritable open-air museum. We explore the mysteries of the Jurassic period, while enjoying a magical stroll under the stars. An unmissable event not to be missed at the end of the year.
THE Lantern Festival of Garden of Plants is experiencing its 6th edition this winter 2024-2025. This luminous promenade, which is a great success as the end-of-year celebrations approach, has become a must-see! After plunging us into the seabed, taking us into the world of dinosaurs, before taking us into the World of Minuscule, this time the Jardin des Plantes invites us to explore the rich ecosystem of the jungle. From November 20, 2024 to January 19, 2025 So we’ll meet at the Jardin des Plantes to discover a unique and fun route.
As you will have understood, this colorful night-time stroll is about to take us on a journey into the past. This immersion In the heart of the Jurassic will take us to the great depths of the ocean, to marshy environments, to green valleys… The Age of Reptiles is ours!
During the Jurassic period, between 201 and 145 million years ago, Pangea, a vast supercontinent that included almost all of the land masses, ceased to exist. The continents continued to fragment and drift apart.
This geographic separation helped open up sea routes, allowing marine organisms to disperse across the globe. At the same time, pterosaurs began to dominate the skies, while the first birds appeared. Mammals and plants experienced great diversification.
The exhibition “Jurassic on the road to enlightenment” invites us to explore this fascinating period through an immersive journey highlighting emblematic species. Among them, you will discover marine reptiles, land dinosaurs and full-size reconstructed steering wheels, as well as the first mammalsmany of whose fossils are preserved in the Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes.
This epic fantasy will take us to five distinct Jurassic environments, revealing the diversity of flora and fauna at different periods. The adventure begins in the deep seas from the Lower Jurassic, populated by marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs. Then, the Jurassic abyss medium reveal bioluminescent creatures around the black smokers. Rising to the surface, a tropical lagoon The Upper Jurassic is teeming with marine life and flying dinosaurs. The exploration continues in a wooded valley where ferns and cycads thrive, before ending in a Cretaceous swamp nascent, where gigantic dinosaurs coexist with small mammals.
(Re)discover this night walk which turns into an unusual experience to do with friends or family, to discover the monumental light structures installed in the paths and lawns of the Jardin des Plantes.
