Muzeum prof. Ivo Chlupáče bylo otevřeno v roce 2008 jako součást Ústavu geologie a paleontologie Přírodovědecké fakulty UK v Praze. Zahrnuje rozsáhlé sbírky cenných fosilií (hlavně z oblasti střední Evropy) a expozici ilustrující jednotlivá období v historii Země přístupnou studentům i veřejnosti. and The Chlupáč Museum was launched at the Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague in 2008. It exhibits large collections of remarkable fossils, especially from Central Europe. The exhibition illustrating the particular stages/eras in the history of the Earth has been open to students, as well as to the general public.
Dinosaurs in the Bohemia - what was their palaeoenvironment? The dinosaurs remains are extremely rare in Czech Republic and the first evident dinosaur skeletal remains were discovered in 2003 in the Cenomanian (Upper Cretacenous) near-shore marine deposits. Just one footprint known from the Triassic sediments of NE Bohemia has been described before this discovery. Despite of extreme rarity of dinosaur remains, we can exactly reconstruct their living conditions based on knowledges of sedimentology taphonomy, stable isotope analysis, fossil biota assemblage analysis, etc. While the Triassic dinosaur inhabited very dry desert areas, the Late Cretaceous specimen from Kutná Hora vicinity belonged to Mid-European "islanders". The Rheno-Bohemian (Mid-European) Island has been covered by diversified vegetation showing dry and wet periods variations. The climatic seasonality should be proven also by sedimentologic evidence, i.e. strong storm deposits. One of this event buried remains of small ornitopod dinosaur at the Cenomanian beach.