Museo del Jurásico de Asturias

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The Museo del Jurásico de Asturias (MUJA), the Jura Museum of Asturias, is a natural history museum near Colunga in Asturias . It opened in 2004.

The museum is located on a hill and overlooks the Bay of Biscay . Numerous dinosaur footprints have been found on the shores in the area, which are represented in the museum. The exhibits include 8,000 Jurassic fossils from Asturias and numerous life-size replicas of dinosaurs and their skeletons.

Replica of a tyrannosaur pair
Velociraptor model in the museum

The architect was Rufino Uribelarrea .

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Coordinates: 43 ° 30 ′ 6.8 ″  N , 5 ° 16 ′ 29.2 ″  W.