Mokpo Natural History Museum (목포자연사박물관)

Mokpo Natural History Museum is a public natural-history museum in Mokpo, Jeollanam-do, walking visitors through Korean and global natural-history topics across multiple themed exhibition halls. Permanent halls cover the geology of the Korean peninsula and broader East Asia, dinosaur-and-fossil reconstructions (with major specimens displayed at near-life-size scale), animal-and-bird taxonomy displays, marine ecosystems including the West Sea coastal species particularly relevant to Mokpo's coastal location, and a hands-on physics-and-chemistry experiment area for school-age visitors. The museum is paired with educational programs for school groups and family-oriented weekend events. For traveling families with school-age children based in Mokpo or stopping over, it works as a useful free or low-priced full-day educational stop, particularly on rainy days, paired with broader Mokpo-area itineraries.