[3][4] Since July 2014, the guide tour to the field station next to the excavation site has been available from the end of April to early November.
[5] Dozens of fossil specimens of five named dinosaurs and their excavation site have been designated as a Natural Monument of Japan since February 2017.
There is a replica reproducing a discovery of a nearly complete skeleton of Camarasaurus found in Wyoming, USA at the end of the passage.
Visitors can enjoy several quizzes with dinosaur fossils and touch some specimens including a real limb bone of Tyrannosaurus.
Exhibits on this floor show how ancient single-celled organisms evolved into dinosaurs and mammals such as human beings.
The museum was designed by Kisho Kurokawa[22] and completed in the summer of 2000 as the centerpiece of the Dino Expo Fukui 2000 [ja] that was hosted in Nagaoyama Park.
The exhibition hall was constructed as a dome with no pillar allowing for wide open spaces to display the large dinosaurs.