TRAVEL DIGEST | Kings Island to open dinosaur exhibit

Kings Island to open dinosaur exhibit

MASON, Ohio

Kings Island amusement park has unveiled a new “Dinosaurs Alive!” exhibit in a Jurassic-forest setting with more than 50 life-sized animatronic dinosaurs featuring movement and sound.

The park, north of Cincinnati, announced recently that the attraction will debut May 26 and features hand-carved dinosaur models along a 4,000-foot-long path covering more than 12.5 acres.

The park is scheduled to open its season April 30.

The dinosaur exhibit will require a separate $5 admission fee.

New Jamaica port welcomes ship

KINGSTON, Jamaica

A new cruise ship port in northern Jamaica celebrated its official launch recently with the arrival of one of the world’s largest recreational liners.

Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas docked at the Falmouth pier in Trelawny with nearly 6,000 passengers aboard, the government said in a statement.

The two-berth Historic Falmouth Cruise Port development is nestled between the resort cities of Montego Bay and Ocho Rios.

A $220 million, three-phase project, it is being developed by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and the Port Authority of Jamaica.

Although the port received its first visiting cruise ship in February, officials delayed the opening ceremony until the arrival of the Oasis of the Seas.

Water stations

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.

The National Park Service is completing the installation of nine new water-bottle- filling stations inside Grand Canyon National Park.

The park service said in a news release the water-filling stations are being installed in high traffic areas on both rims.

Six will be on the South Rim and all will be equipped to provide year-round access to water.

The park service says three water-bottle-filling stations will be on the North Rim and will be ready by summer.

Picasso exhibit breaks records

RICHMOND, Va.

A traveling exhibition of works from Pablo Picasso’s personal collection is breaking records at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Museum spokeswoman Suzanne Hall tells The Richmond Times-Dispatch that more than 75,000 regular admission tickets have been sold and another 11,577 reserved tickets have been sold. Hall says museum memberships have topped 31,000, another record.

“Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musee National Picasso, Paris” is scheduled to run through May 15.

Richmond is the exhibit’s only stop on the East Coast.

US museum seeks to identify children

WASHINGTON

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is trying to identify more than 1,000 children in photos that date from when they were scattered across Europe at the end of World War II and taken in by relief agencies.

The museum’s “Remember Me” project seeks the public’s help in identifying 1,100 children who were uprooted by the war.

The museum is posting the pictures online and plans to publish many of the images in newspapers and online forums.

The images come from the Holocaust Museum’s collections, as well as the American Jewish Archives and the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.

Museum officials hope to learn who the children are, what happened to them and help reconnect them to relatives.

Associated Press