Mifune Dinosaur Museum | |
Native Name: | 御船町恐竜博物館 |
Address: | 995-6 |
Location Town: | Mifune, Kumamoto Prefecture |
Location Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 32.7136°N 130.8016°W |
Opened Date: | April 1998 |
opened in Mifune, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan in 1998. The museum collects, preserves, researches, and displays the dinosaur fossils found in the area; the collection, which includes Japan's first fossil from a meat-eating dinosaur, Mifunesaurus, numbers some 15,000 items.[1] [2] [3]