Patagotitan was a dinosaur that lived 100 million years ago in South America.
Measuring some 37m (121ft) from nose to tail, the beast could have weighed up to 60 or 70 tonnes in life.
The museum has brought over not just a representative skeleton but some of the real fossil bones first discovered in Argentina in 2014.
The largest is a 2.4m-long femur, or thigh bone. It's been erected upright to give visitors an extraordinary selfie opportunity.
The replica skeleton is on loan from Argentina's Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (MEF), whose staff unearthed the original fossils.
The London institution had to put its thinking cap on to work out how best to display the creature.
It only just fits in its Waterhouse Gallery, its largest exhibition space. Even then, the end of the tail has had to be bent around a column.
The floor also needed to be strengthened, but, cleverly, engineers have been able to hide some of the supporting armature, or support frame, so that it looks as though the dinosaur is walking along the carpet.
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