Welcome to our museum! There are 5 exhibition rooms filled with specimens. Also, If you have something you want to search about, please head to the information center!

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1F Natural History of Osaka

Flower, Greenery, NatureInformation Center Museum of

Natural History1F／2F Exhibition Rooms

MountainousRegions This is the best place to search

about nature in Osaka! It is the new building next to museum. There are many computers and books.

Nature InformationCorner

Wetland

YodoRiver

OsakaPlain

Hills

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Entrancefrom botanical garden

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From exit of museum

Exit for park

December 2016 ver. / edited by Osaka Nature History Center / supervised by Osaka Museum of Natural History

There are many fossils of dinosaurs, Naumann's Elephant, and insect

and plant specimens. Yodo River, plains and mountains … you can search about nature

in Osaka district.

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A Little Advice

Curator You can ask questions to them

Ask about curious thingsat question corner.

You can hold it and touch it!

Pollardoak

Where is my home?

An enormous

Kunugi Tree.

Volcan

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rock

Osaka Bay

SpecimenCorner

Quest

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Flower, Greenery, NatureInformation Center

Let’s search

Main BuildingNew Building

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History of the Earth 　　 and living thingsTime travel to the past walking through this room. There are big fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths and ammonites here.

Evolution of livesBeautiful butterfly and big crab. Here, you can meet various creatures living on the Earth now. Many animal bones are here, too. How are they different from human bones?

19 Speciation20 Dispersal

Variety of Minerals

Zoogeographyof insects

24 Sea as the cradle　 of life

2５ Whence come we?

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21 Coevolution

Let’sstart adventure on 2nd floor!

22Evolutionary diversity of insects

Entrance

Exit

How have nature and human beings been interacting with each other? Let’s start the museum adventure.

2 Urban nature

３ Rural nature

1 Alien species around 　the ports in Osaka

15The age of 　 mammals

17 The age of 　 dinosaurs 　 and ammonites

1８Aspects of the Palaeozoic sea and forest

12 The Great Ice Age

11 History of 　 Osaka Plain

13 The Quaternary Period

14 The Osaka 　 Group

４ Nature of country forest

５ Virgin forest of 　ancient Osaka

７ Insects in the 　forests of Osaka

９ Influences 　 of alien 　 species

10 Life in Osaka Bay

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Let's look at nature 　　close to us in Osaka.Town, village, and SATOYAMA. Various natures are around us. "Is there such nature in Osaka?" if you come here, you will surely think so.

16 Late Cretaceous 　 fossils from the Izumi 　 Mountains of Osaka

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Gifts from Nature

Information board

Let’s ask about curious things.

Life of creatures

Endangered habitat and life

Corner for various announcements

Creatures living in nearby SATOYAMA. We are all connected: humans, insects, birds, and flowers. How do creatures familiar to you live? You will say "Oh, really!" as you are surprised at the ingenuity of living things.

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Different species, different ways of life

Quest for a new worldPredator-prey interactions

Inter-specific interactions among three species

Habitats created by other organisms

Animals utilizing variousenvironments

Wide-rangingtravelers

No environment existsin isolation

Connections to humanbeings and their lives

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８ Foods of prehistoric 　 man in Osaka

Competition for resources

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Wating for their chance

Food plants and their homes

1st Room

2nd Room

3rd Room

5th Room

4th Room

Toilet

What a big tree! How old is it?

Footprint of Apatosaurus!

Hello

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Will it becomea jewel?

That's

Machikan

ewani.

Please visit us again.

Go down to 1st floor.

Elevator

Naumann Hall

3rd room is on 2nd floor!3rd room is on 2nd floor!