page_title: Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum
section_title: Exhibits
hierarchical_section_title: Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum / Exhibits
caption_attribution_description: Euoplocephalus model at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum
context_page_description: The Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, located in Katsuyama, Fukui, Japan, is one of the leading dinosaur museums in Asia that is renowned for its exhibits of fossil specimens of dinosaurs and paleontological research. It is sited in the Nagaoyama Park near the Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry that the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation of the Tetori Group is cropped out and a large number of dinosaur remains including Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis and Fukuisaurus tetoriensis are found and excavated.
  Since October 2009, the entire area of Katsuyama City has been recognized as a Japanese Geopark "Dinosaur Valley Fukui Katsuyama Geopark". Since July 2014, the guide tour to the field station next to the excavation site has been available from the end of April to early November.
  Dozens of fossil specimens of five named dinosaurs and their excavation site have been designated as a Natural Monument of Japan since February 2017.
  The Asia Dinosaur Association Secretary Office has been housed inside the museum since its establishment in 2013.
context_section_description: The exhibition is roughly divide into 5 zones; "Dino Street", "World of Dinosaurs", "Science of the Earth", "History of Life", and "Dino Lab".
  The museum entrance is located at the third floor of the building. After ticketing, visitors go down an approx. 33 meters long escalator to the basement floor. The basement consists of "Dino Street" and a diorama of the excavation site. "Dino Street" is a passage displaying various real fossils from all over the world on the right and left walls.  There is a replica reproducing a discovery of a nearly complete skeleton of Camarasaurus found in Wyoming, USA at the end of the passage.  Incidentally, the original fossil bones of this Camarasaurus is prepared and displaying in the first floor of the museum.
  More than 40 skeletons of dinosaurs including 10 original fossils are displayed in "World of Dinosaurs". There is a nearly 200 m² diorama reconstructing the Jurassic period of Zigong, China.  This diorama includes some robotic dinosaurs that move and make sounds.
  "Science of the Earth" (1F) is focusing on the earth science, including the plate tectonics, rock formation, precious gems and so on. 
  There is a hands-on exhibition room for children called "Dino Lab"(1-2F). Visitors can enjoy several quizzes with dinosaur fossils and touch some specimens including a real limb bone of Tyrannosaurus. 
  Visitors can view the inside of the fossil preparation laboratory through the large window(Fossil Preparation).  
  In the second floor, "History of Life" displays various specimens along with the timeline from the birth of life to the present. Exhibits on this floor show how ancient single-celled organisms evolved into dinosaurs and mammals such as human beings.
  Images of the exhibition hall have been disclosed on Google Street View .
  
  Some exhibits are on the outside of the museum building such as many kinds of rock specimens, a triassic tree trunk, and a replica of tyrannosaur skeleton (Wankel) laying in rocks. 
  From the spring to the fall, visitors can experience excavation activities at the park and the field station.
caption: Euoplocephalus skeleton
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