Photo by Donald E. Hurlbert, Smithsonian.

Good news and bad news for dino lovers. First, the good: The Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum’s new Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton will finally arrive on April 15! Now, the bad: It will close its national fossil hall for five years on April 28 in order to redesign and renovate the exhibition space to make room for it.

But fear not, the museum will still make their fossils available to the public; they’ll temporarily be on display in a variety of other exhibits during the five-year period, a release states. To celebrate the Smithsonian’s latest acquisition, the museum unveiled a new display, entitled “Tyrannosaurus rex: Say Hello to the Nation’s T. rex,” which will showcase a variety of newly acquired dino skulls. Additionally, the museum will open a new exhibit, “The Last American Dinosaurs: Discovering a Lost World,” which will “feature fossils from the last days of the dinosaurs” in 2015.

The Smithsonian made an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in June of last year to acquire the new T. rex skeleton on a 50-year loan agreement. The fossil was originally found in 1988 by a rancher in eastern Montana and was excavated over a two year period. The Smithsonian says it’s “one of the most complete T. rex specimens ever discovered, with 80-85 percent of the skeleton recovered.” Its arrival was delayed by the federal government shutdown.

The skeleton will be the centerpiece of the museum’s new 31,000-square-foot fossil hall, which is scheduled to open sometime in 2019. “I am sure our visitors will be pleased that dinosaurs will continue to be on view at the Smithsonian while the new national fossil hall is being built,” Kirk Johnson, The Natural History Museum’s Sant Director said in a release. “The entire Natural History Museum will be alive with excitement as we begin a journey to tell the story of prehistoric Earth by welcoming one of its most famous ambassadors, the Tyrannosaurus rex.”

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