From exit of museum

Flower, Greenery, Nature

Wetland

Hills

Information Center

Osaka You can hold it
Plain and touch it!

MountainousRegions
Entrance
frombotanicalgarden

Let s searchSpecimen
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An enormree.
Kunugi TYodoRiver

Osaka Bay

This is the best place to search
about nature in Osaka!
It is the new building next to museum.
There are many computers and books.

Nature Information
Corner

Where is my home?

Ask about curious things
at question corner.

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Osaka Museum of
Natural History

MAP

Welcome to our museum!
There are 5 exhibition rooms ﬁlled with specimens.
Also, If you have something you want to search about,please head to the information center!

New Building?

Flower, Greenery, Natureicele AdvttiL
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Information Center

1F Natural History of Osaka
Yodo River, plains and mountains …
you can search about nature
in Osaka district.

EntranceMuseumService Center?
Main Building A Little AdviceMuseum ofNatural History
1F／2F Exhibition RoomsThere are many fossils of dinosaurs,Naumann's Elephant, and insect
and plant specimens.

５ Virgin forest ofancient Osaka

1st Room

６ Endangered habitatand life

Let's look at nature
close to us in Osaka.

８ Foods of prehistoric
man in Osaka

1FMuseum

Exit

Entrance

４ Nature ofcountry forest

９ Inﬂuencesof alienspecies

３ Rural nature

1 Alien species aroundthe ports in Osaka

Information board
Corner for various
announcements

5th Room
Creatures living in nearby SATOYAMA.
We are all connected: humans, insects, birds, andﬂowers. How do creatures familiar to you live?
You will say "Oh, really!" as you are surprised at
the ingenuity of living things.

17 The age of 16 Late Cretaceous
fossils from the Izumi
dinosaurs
and ammonites Mountains of Osaka

28
Wating fortheir chance

35 Animals utilizing various
environments

32
31
Parasitism andCompetition
mutualism
for resources

27
Diﬀerent species,
diﬀerent ways of life36
Wide-ranging
travelers37
No environment exists
in isolation
38
Connections to humanbeings and their lives

Inter-speciﬁc interactions
among three species
Habitats created33
34 by other organisms

2５
Whence come we?

Go down to
1st floor.

24 Sea as the cradleof life
23
Zoogeographyof insects

Beautiful butterﬂy and big crab.
Here, you can meet various

here, too. How are they

Footprint ofApatosaurus!

30
Predator-prey interactions

Evolution of lives

now. Many animal bones are

15The age ofmammals

29 Quest for a new world

Life of creatures

creatures living on the Earth

14 The OsakaGroup1８
Aspects of thePalaeozoic sea
and forest

What a big tree!
How old is it?

3rd Room

13 The Quaternary Period

12
The Great
Ice Age
3rd room ison 2nd ﬂoor!

HelloMuseumTime travel to the past walking
through this room.
There are big fossils of dinosaurs,mammoths and ammonites here.

11 History ofOsaka Plain

How have nature and human beings
been interacting with each other?
Letʼs start the museum adventure.

2F

History of the Earthand living things

10 Life in Osaka Bay

Naumann HallMuseums ask about
Service Let
curious things.
Center2nd Room

2 Urban nature

Elevator

ToiletTown, village, and SATOYAMA.
Various natures are around us.
"Is there such nature in Osaka?"
if you come here, you will surely think so.

７ Insects in theforests of Osaka

22
Evolutionary
diversity of insects

21
Coevolution

diﬀerent from human bones?
20 Dispersal

4th Room

26
Foodplants
and theirhomes

Please visit us
again.

Let’sstart adventure
on 2nd ﬂoor!

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19 Speciation

Gifts from Nature

ToiletWill it becomea jewel?
Variety of Minerals