"Das Praehistorium is a museum that traces the evolution of life and the earth for hundreds of millions of years by using animatronic creatures in realstic-looking settings that mimic prehistoric landscapes.......The scenes are realistic enough that most make you feel like you are in different world...."

"… The visit covers the Precambrian, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Take part in the expedition into the creation of the earth and enjoy the dizzying images and experiences … amazing life-like effects are achieved with state-of-the-art animation techniques, a clever audiovisual system and meticulous attention to detail …"

"The roaring gives you goosebumps. The enormous creature angrily raises its head, opens a mouth of razor-sharp teeth, and roars again. The giant tail thrashes wildly. Then suddenly, the tyrannosaurus lowers its head and fixes its yellow reptilian eyes upon the intruder. Hurrying on, through misty primeval forests, past the Solnhofen lagoon, where two screeching raptors fight over their prey. A few steps further, in a canyon from the Permian period, is a rushing waterfall. The rocky gorges echo with the cries of creatures never seen..."

"...Flora and fauna, from winter forest to giant fern, from the T. rex to the beetle: everything is artificial, but deceptively realistic; even smells and humidity have been recreated - enjoyable for adults, great fun for kids..."

"Visitors are bitten by the whole experience, which is guaranteed to delight. Even if they couldn't care less about a billion years of prehistory, ecosystems, Big Bangs and evolution theories. No one who has come within 20 centimetres of Reden's tyrannosaurus, watched its flanks heave, avoided the stare of its reptilian eyes - and then caught a whiff of what might be the foul breath from its jaws and the bloody entrails still dripping from them, will dispute that at this point, at least, the experience has been nothing short of sensational..."

"...And then, in the entrance hall one room further on, stands the park's largest attraction: an eight-metre high, forty-metre long model of an Argentinosaurus skeleton, with legs like pillars between which the visitors can stroll. Gondwana's managing director enlisted high-calibre support in order to create this skeleton. Its assembly was supervised personally by the scientist who discovered the actual Argentinosaurus bones in Patagonia.

Scientific management of the project is the responsibility of the palaeontologist Andreas Braun from the University of Bonn. His educational concept for Gondwana is this: visitors are to develop a sense of how life emerged, and then evolved - not in dusty museums, but in realistically modelled prehistoric worlds..."