Mifune Dinosaur Museum

Building in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

32°42′49″N 130°48′06″E / 32.713627°N 130.801631°E / 32.713627; 130.801631OpenedApril 1998WebsiteOfficial website

Mifune Dinosaur Museum (御船町恐竜博物館, Mifune-machi Kyōryū Hakubutsukan) 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]

References

^ 恐竜博物館について [About the Dinosaur Museum] (in Japanese). Mifune Dinosaur Museum. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
^ 御船町恐竜博物館 [Mifune Dinosaur Museum] (PDF) (in Japanese). Kumamoto Prefecture. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
^ "Links". Asia Dinosaur Association. Retrieved 17 August 2021.