1. Welcome to the Osaka Museum of Natural
  2. Naumann Hall
  3. 1st Exhibition Room
  4. Nature in Osaka that you can learn in the Museum
  5. 2nd Exhibition Room
  6. 3rd Exhibition Room
  7. No.4 exhibition (Gallery)
  8. 5th Exhibition Room
  9. Learning about organism diversity and about mankind in the Museum
  10. Column "Nagasuke", "Makko"
  11. Exhibition Room: "Nature of Osaka"
  12. For Kids

Welcome to the Osaka Museum of Natural History.

The huge elephant in the center of the exhibition hall is the Naumann’s elephant, which inhabited Osaka for a long time between 20 to 430 thousand years ago. Footprints of the elephant can also be found here, in the soil beneath Nagai Park. Imagine an Osaka with a sprawling expanse of nature where elephants lived. Naumann’s elephants vanished in the era when people started settling in Osaka. Overhunting by humans is thought to be the reason for this. Human activities sometimes make changes to nature. Likewise, we are forced to change our cultures and lifestyles as nature changes. “Nature and humans are inseparable from each other,” and therefore, “Story of Nature and Human Intaraction” is the theme of the exhibitions in this museum.

The footprints following the elephant and those of the Sinomegaceros yabei were faithfully reproduced from those that were excavated underneath the Abiko-minami Junior High School located south of Nagai Park.