Overview
- The Sapporo City Museum Activity Center opened the Sapporo Kujira Hall as a free permanent exhibit on May 30, 2026, at its ground-floor entrance in Toyohira-ku.
- The display houses original remains of the whale described in 2025 as a new genus and species (学名: メガベリーナ・サッポロエンシス), plus reconstructions, a 1/20 scale model, and explanatory panels.
- A centerpiece of the hall is a real skull exceeding two meters in length, which the museum says ranks among the best-preserved semicetacean-family fossils known worldwide.
- The museum will provide head replicas and related material to Hokkaido University Museum’s free special exhibition “Hokudai’s Dinosaurs,” which runs July 3–November 1, 2026, at a separate venue on campus.
- Beyond public display, the find anchors local research and outreach by keeping parts of the original specimen on continuous view, drawing families to events and raising the profile of Hokkaido paleontology in education and museum collaboration.