Friday, March 30, 2012

Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum


There is a big dinosaur museum in a snow mountain. Although this country town, Katsuyama, is not famous in Japan, the museum was much bigger than I expected. I saw many kinds of fossils of dinosaurs. They have many fossils of endemic species of dinosaurs in Fukui prefecture. In fact, there were many dinosaur models in the town.
The dinosaur museum is a dome-like building, which mainly consists of three floors. The entrance of this museum is at the top floor. People first go down from the entrance by an elevator, which is like a time slip to go to the ancient times. Many fossils and models of dinosaurs are exhibited in the bottom floor. In the second floor, there are fossils of ancient mammals and marine animals. This construction is thought to explain the flow of time. However, the strongest impact of dinosaur in the bottom floor may make us forget everything later.

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