Dinosaurs have long fascinated people. For visitors at the Natural History Museum in London, Dippy the dinosaur has been a welcome sight. Now Dippy the dinosaur leaves the London Museum for his national tour.

Dippy the dinosaur has been greeting visitors at the Natural History Museum in London for almost four decades. Dippy is a Diplodocus, standing at 4.25 meters high and 21 meters in length. Dippy would be dismantled to take him on a national tour.

The dismantling process would take three weeks. After Dippy has been dismantled, conservators would then work on the plaster-of-Paris cast for 12 months. Dippy would then go on a tour from 2018 until 2020 in eight different locations. At the end of 2020 a bronze cast of Dippy would then be displayed outside the museum.

A team of six would be working in dismantling Dippy. The first that would be dismantled would be the tail, which would begin on January 5. Once Dippy is disassembled, the parts would then be placed into 12 crates. The tour would commence in 2018 and would include Dorset County Museum into its itinerary, according to The Telegraph.

While Dippy is on tour, the actual skeleton of a female blue whale would take its post, as Yahoo News reports. The female blue whale skeleton is 25.3 meters in length which would be much longer than Dippy was. The blue whale skeleton would take on a diving pose as it is hung from the ceiling.

American industrialist Andrew Carnegie gave the Diplodocus cast to the museum in 1905. Dippy has been at the main entrance of the museum since 1979. Dippy is a Diplodocus, one of the largest types of dinosaurs. The Diplodocus is a type of sauropod as well as a herbivore.

Dippy the dinosaur has been welcoming visitors at the Natural History Museum and would soon be on a national tour. Dippy the dinosaur leaves the London museum for the two year tour. The pangolin is said to be in demand now because of its scales.