The dinosaur park in Crystal Palace, south of London, opened in 1854. It was the first time in history that anyone had tried to recreate how the dinosaurs looked like. Initiator for the project was Sir Charles Owen from the Natural History Museum who worked in collaboration with the sculptor Benjamin Hawkins. On three different islands were the time periods Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic created, with various geological materials and 14 prehistoric animals in chronological order. Hawkins had earlier worked with reproducing animals but this was of course very different. This time he could not study any models or pictures and the only thing he could rely on was qualified guesses from the knowledge they had at that time. The first findings of dinosaurs were made as late as 1820 so there were not so extensive knowledge about these new species. The name Dinosauria was used the first time in 1842 when Sir Richard Owen described this new kind of big lizards and it is still used today.