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Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum (FPDM) 福井県立恐竜博物館
Tyrannosaurus im Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum (FPDM)
Das Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum (japanisch福井県立恐竜博物館Fukui Ken-ritsu Kyōryū Hakubutsukan) in Katsuyama, Präfektur Fukui, Japan, ist eines der führenden Dinosauriermuseen in Asien, das für seine Exponate fossiler Dinosaurier und seine paläontologische Forschung bekannt ist.[1] Es befindet sich im „Nagaoyama-Park“ („Katsuyama Dinosaur Forest Park“) in der Nähe des Kitadani-Dinosaurier-Steinbruchs. Dort wurde die „Kitadani-Formation“ (japanisch北谷層 Kitadani-sō) der „Tetori-Gruppe“, einer lithostratigraphischenGruppe aus der Unterkreide freigelegt und eine große Anzahl von Dinosaurierresten, darunter Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis und Fukuisaurus tetoriensis, gefunden und ausgegraben.[2]
Seit Oktober 2009 ist das gesamte Gebiet der Stadt Katsuyama als japanischer Geopark „Dinosaur Valley Fukui Katsuyama Geopark“ (japanisch恐竜渓谷ふくい勝山ジオパーク) anerkannt.[3][4] Seit Juli 2014 wird die Führung zur Feldstation neben der Ausgrabungsstätte von Ende April bis Anfang November angeboten.[5] Dutzende von fossilen Exemplaren von fünf namentlich genannten Dinosauriern und ihre Ausgrabungsstätte sind seit Februar 2017 als Denkmäler in Japan ausgewiesen.[6] Das Sekretariat der Asia Dinosaur Association ist seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 2013 im Museum untergebracht.[7]
FPDM was established as a paleontological and geological museum in the Nagaoyama Park where it is close to the dinosaur excavation site (the museum is about 5.5 km southwest from the site) in 2000. The nature section of Fukui Prefectural Museum has transferred to FPDM at the same time. The name was changed from "Fukui Prefectural Museum" to "Fukui Prefectural Museum of Cultural History" in 2003.
1982: A nearly complete skeleton of Crocodilia was found at the Sugiyama branch of Takinami river in Katsuyama City of Fukui Prefecture.[8]
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 m2diorama reconstructing the Jurassic period of Zigong, China.[20] 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.[21]
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.
The location for the museum was chosen because many fossils have been found in Katsuyama and it uses many fossils found in the surrounding area. The museum was designed by Kisho Kurokawa[22] and completed in the summer of 2000 as the centerpiece of the Vorlage:Ill that was hosted in Nagaoyama Park.
It officially opened on July 14, 2000 with an area of approximately Vorlage:Convert. The total floor space is approx. 15,000m2 making it one of the largest paleontological museums in Japan. The exhibition hall was constructed as a dome with no pillar allowing for wide open spaces to display the large dinosaurs.[20]
The total construction cost is approximately 14 billion JPY (9.15 billion for building, 3.1 billion for exhibits).[23]
↑Michiharu Goto: Lower Cretaceous Planorbidae (Gastropoda) from the Kitadani Formation of the Tetori Group in Katsuyama City, Fukui Prefecture, Central Japan. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum. Hrsg.: Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum. Nr.9, 2010, S.41–45 (japanisch, fukui.jp [PDF]).
↑Yoichi Azuma, Currie Philip J.: A new carnosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan. In: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 37. Jahrgang, Nr.12, 2000, S.1735–1753, doi:10.1139/e00-064 (rero.ch [PDF]).
↑Y. Kobayashi, Y. Azuma: A new iguanodontian (Dinosauria; Ornithopoda), form the lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation of Fukui Prefecture, Japan. In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 23. Jahrgang, Nr.1, 2003, S.166–175, doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2003)23[166:anidof]2.0.co;2 (rero.ch [PDF]).
↑Azuma, Y., Shibata, M.: Fukuititan nipponensis, a new titanosauriform sauropod from the Early Cretaceous Tetori Group of Fukui Prefecture, Japan. In: Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84. Jahrgang, Nr.3, 2010, S.454–462, doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00268.x.
