It's easy to imagine the "Scenes of Dinosaurs" exhibit now at the Memphis Pink Palace Museum as the natural-history equivalent of the offerings at a small multiplex cinema.
Like the auditoriums in a movie theater, the scenes on display inside the museum's upstairs exhibition hall present a variety of striking performers in emotional and sometimes tense scenarios.
For fans of action blockbusters, the exhibit offers a pair of Pachycephalosauruses, snorting and pawing in the moment before they butt the 10-inch-thick skulls inside their spiky block heads.
Patrons who prefer heartwarming family entertainment may be drawn to the Maiasaura tableau, which depicts a duck-billed herbivore — the species name means "good mother dinosaur" — with several of her children.