| Chūrui Naumann Elephant Museum | |
| Native Name: | 忠類ナウマン象記念館 |
| Map Type: | Japan Hokkaido#Japan |
| Map Alt: | Location in Japan |
| Address: | 383-1 Chūrui Shirogane-machi |
| Location Town: | Makubetsu, Hokkaidō |
| Location Country: | Japan |
| Coordinates: | 42.558°N 143.3001°W |
| Opened Date: | August 1988 |
The opened in Makubetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1988. It commemorates the chance discovery of a fossilized Naumann's elephant in Chūrui, now Makubetsu, on 26 July 1969, during construction work on a farm road: the youth who unearthed the initial piece with his pickaxe crying out . During the course of three subsequent excavations, some forty-seven bones were recovered, representing 70–80% of the total skeleton. Twenty-two museums in Japan and the rest of the world now house the reconstructed elephant's remains from the Chrui finds.[1]