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Phu Kum Khao Dinosaur Excavation Site
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Sirindhorn Museum |
พิพิธภัณฑ์สิรินธร |
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Phu Kum Khao is
approximately 29 kilometers northward of the city center of
Kalasin Province. The tourists can go there by taking the
highway number 227 (Kalasin- Sahatsakhan- Kham Muang- Wang Sam
Mo- Phang Khon). Around 3 kilometers before the city center of
Sahatsakhan District, turn right to Wat Sakkawan, next to
Sahatsakhan Suksa School, for about 300 meters. The tourists
will arrive at where the dinosaur fossils are.
Phu Kum
Khao is the most abundant habitat of the herbivorous dinosaurs
in Thailand. Bones from almost the whole body of the dinosaurs,
piling with bones of few types of herbivorous dinosaurs, are
foundin the stone layer at the mountain slope that looks like
the cone-shaped coverfor keeping food away from flies. It is 200
meters high at the west side and is around 240 meters high at
the east side. The building over the excavating hole covers the
area of around 700 square meters; whereas, the hole beneath the
building is 280 square kilometers. In the area next to it, a
building of Phu Kum Khao museum is constructed, covering 8,800
square meters, as a place for the geologists from all over the
world to do research and as a tourist attraction of the
province.
Sirindhorn Museum or Phu Kum Khao Dinosaur Excavation
Site is the complete and largest museum and research center
about dinosaurs in the Southeast Asia. The museum was named
“Sirindhorn Museum” after Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. The
exhibition inside the museum can be divided into 3 parts—the
origin of the world, the origin of all creatures including
dinosaurs and the origin of human beings, and the traveling
exhibitions.
The museum is located at the foothill of
Phu Kum Khao in Sahatsakhan District. The tourists can go along
Kalasin- Sahatsakhan route (the highway number 227) for
approximately 28 kilometers. Two kilometers before Sahatsakhan,
turn right at the intersection for another 1 kilometer. The area
of Phu Kum Khao, which was formerly the area in Wat Sakkawan, is
where a number of dinosaur bones, as well as the dinosaur
skeletons—both the complete ones buried underground and the ones
dug out by the Department of Mineral Resources officers, are
discovered.
Sirindhorn Museum is open every day (both
weekdays and holidays) from 8.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
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Sirindhorn Museum |
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Free |
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16.69251 N |
103.52326 E |
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