A UNIQUE exhibition has been turning heads at the Dinosaur Museum in Dorchester.

It’s not often that humans and dinosaurs are seen side-by-side, but a temporary addition to the display at the museum on Icen Way has enabled that to happen.

It is the brainchild of the online life insurance firm Beagle Street, who have dressed up a manikin as a ‘traditional’ life insurance salesman to show how times have moved on and these people are now extinct.

Clad in a shiny suit with a briefcase and a chunky calculator, the middle-aged model has certainly been making people look twice as they visit the museum, which houses other extinct creatures such as tyrannosaurs, triceratops and velociraptors.

Accompanying the mannequin, a placard reads: “Independent Financial Advisors were a complex group of animals that first appeared in the pre-internet age. They were the dominant terrestrial financial advisors in a world where financial products were so complicated an entire industry was created just to explain them.

“The birth of Beagle Street, an online life insurance company, led to the extinction of most Independent Financial Advisors.”

The exhibition follows research conducted by the company that shows more than half of the UK population do not have life insurance. Of the 5,000 people questioned, 43 per cent of people said buying the insurance was too confusing and 54 per cent of people believed the financial advisors were only out to make money.

Matthew Gledhill, managing director of Beagle Street, said: “It cannot be right a financial service has become so complicated that over the last 20 years a separate industry of advisors has grown up just to explain it.”

Tim Batty, pictured left, from the museum, said: “It has been received very well. People said they have thought it was quirky and a bit different, and we have had some very interesting feedback. It’s a special thing we have done for Beagle Street and we are pleased to have been chosen by them.”

  •  The exhibition will finish on Sunday and for more information contact the museum.