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The is in the northeast corner of
Blue whale Life size model.
Opened in 1877, it has had several names, including Ministry of Education Museum, Tokyo Museum, Tokyo Science Museum, the National Science Museum of Japan, and the National Museum of Nature and Science as of 2007. It was renovated in the 1990s and 2000s, and offers a wide variety of natural history exhibitions and interactive scientific experiences.
It was completed as the main building of the Tokyo Science Museum in September 1931 as part of the reconstruction project after the Great Kanto Earthquake in Neo-Renaissance style. Designed by Kenzo Akitani, an engineer of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Building Division. The building is the most visited museum in Japan, and looks like an airplane when viewed from above. In addition to the exhibition hall, it has facilities such as a dome for astronomical observation and an auditorium.
It is designed to withstand earthquakes of the Great Kanto Earthquake class, and it is said that there is no problem in light of the current Building Standards Act standards.
In 2021, the museum organized the Pokémon Fossil Museum, a
/ref> * Animal Research Department – 2,346,747 items * Department of Botany – 2,110,147 items * Geology Department – 353,270 items * Humanity Research Department – 163,315 items * Department of Science and Engineering – 38,815 items About 100,000 items are newly collected each year.
The following items in the collection are designated as national Important Cultural Properties.
* Celestial Globe and
File:Zalophus japonicus2.jpg , '' Zalophus japonicus''
File:Futabasaurus.jpg, '' Futabasaurus''
File:Nipponites.jpg, '' Nipponites''
File:Japanese Wolf.jpg, Honshu wolf (Japanese wolf)
File:Thylacine Stuffed specimen.jpg,
National Museum of Nature and Science
– official site in English
National Museum of Nature and Science on Google Cultural Institute
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Ueno Park
is a spacious public park in the Ueno, Tokyo, Ueno district of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan. The park was established in 1873 on lands formerly belonging to the Buddhist temples in Japan, temple of Kan'ei-ji. Amongst the country's first public parks, i ...
in Tokyo. The museum has exhibitions on pre- Meiji science in Japan. It is the venue of the taxidermied bodies of the legendary dogs Hachikō and Taro and Jiro. A life-size blue whale model and a steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, Fuel oil, oil or, rarely, Wood fuel, wood) to heat ...
are also on display outside.
History
Blue whale Life size model.
Opened in 1877, it has had several names, including Ministry of Education Museum, Tokyo Museum, Tokyo Science Museum, the National Science Museum of Japan, and the National Museum of Nature and Science as of 2007. It was renovated in the 1990s and 2000s, and offers a wide variety of natural history exhibitions and interactive scientific experiences.
It was completed as the main building of the Tokyo Science Museum in September 1931 as part of the reconstruction project after the Great Kanto Earthquake in Neo-Renaissance style. Designed by Kenzo Akitani, an engineer of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Building Division. The building is the most visited museum in Japan, and looks like an airplane when viewed from above. In addition to the exhibition hall, it has facilities such as a dome for astronomical observation and an auditorium.
It is designed to withstand earthquakes of the Great Kanto Earthquake class, and it is said that there is no problem in light of the current Building Standards Act standards.
In 2021, the museum organized the Pokémon Fossil Museum, a travelling exhibition
A travelling exhibition, also referred to as a "travelling exhibit" or a "touring exhibition", is a type of exhibition that is presented at more than one venue.
Temporary exhibitions can bring together objects that might be dispersed among sever ...
based on the '' Pokémon'' franchise, in collaboration with The Pokémon Company. The exhibition opened at the Mikasa City Museum
opened in Mikasa, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1979. The collection documents the natural history and history of the area and is renowned for its ammonites as well as for the Yezo Mikasa Ryū type fossil, discovered in 1976 and designated a Natura ...
in Mikasa, Hokkaido, Japan, on 4 July 2021, and remained there until 20 September. It has since been hosted by several other museums across Japan, including the National Museum of Nature and Science, which hosted it from 15 March to 19 June 2022. A virtual tour of the exhibit as it appeared in the museum was also made available online.
Materials in the collection
Number of materials
5,004,294 items (as of FY2022). Of these, approximately 14,000 are on permanent display. Others are stored and researched in the Tsukuba area.独立行政法人国立科学博物館概要2012/ref> * Animal Research Department – 2,346,747 items * Department of Botany – 2,110,147 items * Geology Department – 353,270 items * Humanity Research Department – 163,315 items * Department of Science and Engineering – 38,815 items About 100,000 items are newly collected each year.
Designated Cultural Properties
The following items in the collection are designated as national Important Cultural Properties.
* Celestial Globe and Globe
A globe is a spherical Earth, spherical Model#Physical model, model of Earth, of some other astronomical object, celestial body, or of the celestial sphere. Globes serve purposes similar to maps, but, unlike maps, they do not distort the surface ...
by Shibukawa Shunkai
born as Yasui Santetsu (), later called Motoi Santetsu (), was a Japanese scholar, Go (game), go player and the first official astronomer appointed of the Edo period. He revised the Chinese lunisolar calendar at the shogunate request, drawi ...
(with two old pedestal boards)
: Myriad year clock
The , was a universal clock designed by the Japanese inventor Hisashige Tanaka in 1851. It belongs to the category of Japanese clocks called '' Wadokei''. This clock is designated as an Important Cultural Property and a Mechanical Engineering ...
made in 1695, celestial globe
Celestial globes show the apparent positions of the stars in the sky. They omit the Sun, Moon, and planets because the positions of these bodies vary relative to those of the stars, but the ecliptic, along which the Sun moves, is indicated.
...
made in 1697.
* Myriad year clock
The , was a universal clock designed by the Japanese inventor Hisashige Tanaka in 1851. It belongs to the category of Japanese clocks called '' Wadokei''. This clock is designated as an Important Cultural Property and a Mechanical Engineering ...
by Hisashige Tanaka
was a Japanese businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and rangaku scholar who was prominent during the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period in Japan. In 1875, he founded what became the Toshiba Corporation. He has been called the "Thomas ...
: Toshiba
is a Japanese multinational electronics company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure systems, elevators and escalators, electronic components, semiconductors ...
: Made in 1851. Owned by Toshiba
is a Japanese multinational electronics company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure systems, elevators and escalators, electronic components, semiconductors ...
. In 1931, it was deposited at the Tokyo Science Museum (predecessor of the National Museum of Nature and Science). Exhibited on the 2nd floor of the Earth Pavilion.
* Astronomical telescope(8-inch flexure equatorial mount) made in UK.
: Made by Troughton & Sims. The first full-scale and largest telescope imported to Japan. Used by the NAOJ until 1967.
* Milne horizontal pendulum seismograph (Appendix: Earthquake Record Vol. 41)
: The oldest existing seismograph in Japan. It was installed in 1899 on the Tokyo Imperial University campus. Invented by Milne, a mining engineer and seismologist from England.
* Sogeograph (tin foil gramophone), made in England (attached: wooden box)
: The first phonograph introduced to Japan. On 16 November 1878, at the Hitotsubashi laboratory of the University of Tokyo Faculty of Science, the first sound recording was made in Japan.
* Former Tokyo Science Museum Main Building
: Construction of the building was completed in September 1931 as the main building of the Tokyo Science Museum as part of the reconstruction project following the Great Kanto Earthquake. It was designed in the Neo-Renaissance style. Designed by Kenzo Kasuya, an engineer in the Ministry of Education Minister's Secretariat's Architecture Division, the building was designated an Important Cultural Property on 9 June 2008.
Exhibition buildings
Nihonkan (Japan Gallery)
The theme of the Ueno Main Building is "Aiming for the coexistence of humankind and nature," and consists of two exhibition halls, the Japan Pavilion and the Earth Pavilion.ammonite
Ammonoids are extinct, (typically) coiled-shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea. They are more closely related to living octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish (which comprise the clade Coleoidea) than they are to nautiluses (family N ...
s
File:Meteorites fell in Japan.jpg, Meteorites fell in Japan
File:Japanese Crested Ibis.jpg, Japanese crested ibis (''Nipponia nippon'')
File:Amami rabbit Stuffed specimen.jpg, '' Amami rabbit''
File:Japan Wolf Skelton.jpg, Honshu wolf (Japanese wolf)
File:Hachiko Stuffed specimen.jpg, Hachikō
File:Silurus biwaensis Stuffed specimen.jpg, Silurus biwaensis
File:Paleoparadoxia Skeleton.jpg, '' Paleoparadoxia'' Skeleton
File:Roosters - National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo - DSC07125.JPG, Roosters
File:Foucault pendulum in the National Museum of Nature and Science P2157428.jpg, Foucault pendulum
File:Terrestrial Globe by Shibukawa Shunkai.jpg, Papier-mache terrestrial globe, created by Shibukawa Shunkai
born as Yasui Santetsu (), later called Motoi Santetsu (), was a Japanese scholar, Go (game), go player and the first official astronomer appointed of the Edo period. He revised the Chinese lunisolar calendar at the shogunate request, drawi ...
in 1695. Important Cultural Properties of Japan
File:Troughton & Simms Astronomical Telescope - Joy of Museums - National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo.jpg , Troughton & Simms astronomical telescope
A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), absorption, or Reflection (physics), reflection of electromagnetic radiation. Originally, it was an optical instrument using len ...
, 19th century. Important Cultural Properties of Japan
File:Milne Horizontal Pendulum Seismograph.jpg, Milne horizontal pendulum seismograph. Important Cultural Properties of Japan
File:Tsurigane-Dokei.jpg, Tsurigane-dokei (hanging bell-shaped clock)
File:Elekiter replica.jpg, The ''Elekiter'' (replica) made by Hiraga Gennai
File:Clockwork, view 1 - National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo - DSC07404.JPG, Clockwork
File:Clock exhibit - National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo - DSC07212.JPG, Clock exhibit
File:Clock exhibit - National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo - DSC07215.JPG, Clock exhibit
Chikyūkan (Global Gallery)
The theme is "History of Earth Life and Mankind". The exhibition area is 3 floors above ground and 3 floors below ground. The first phase of construction was completed in 1998. The permanent exhibition will be open to the public from 24 April, the following year. Grand opening on 2 November 2004 after the completion of the second phase of construction. The renovation work of the north exhibition hall started in September 2014, and the construction was completed the following year, and the grand opening was held on 14 July.Thylacine
The thylacine (; binomial name ''Thylacinus cynocephalus''), also commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, was a carnivorous marsupial that was native to the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmani ...
File:Giant panda Fei Fei and Tong Tong.jpg, Giant pandas named "Fei Fei" (left) and "Tong Tong" (right)
File:Myriad-Year Clock, made by Hisashige Tanaka, 1851, with western and Japanese dials, weekly, monthly, and zodiac setting, plus sun and moon - National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo - DSC07407.JPG, Myriad year clock
The , was a universal clock designed by the Japanese inventor Hisashige Tanaka in 1851. It belongs to the category of Japanese clocks called '' Wadokei''. This clock is designated as an Important Cultural Property and a Mechanical Engineering ...
, 19th century. Important Cultural Properties of Japan
file:Dunkleosteus.jpg , '' Dunkleosteus terrelli''
File:TeaAutomatAndMechanism.jpg, Karakuri ningyō
File:Hayabusa restoration model 2.jpg, Hayabusa model
File:A6M2b Zero at Tokyo-NSM.jpg, Mitsubishi A6M Zero (Zero Fighter) Model 21
File:Zero Fighter Plane Model 21.jpg, Zero Fighter Plane Model
File:YS-11 Wind tunnel model.jpg, NAMC YS-11 wind tunnel model
File:Space Flyer Unit.jpg, Space Flyer Unit
File:Saltwater crocodile Stuffed specimen.jpg, Saltwater crocodile
File:Exhibition of National Museum of Nature and Science.jpg, Skeleton of sperm whale
The sperm whale or cachalot (''Physeter macrocephalus'') is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator. It is the only living member of the Genus (biology), genus ''Physeter'' and one of three extant species in the s ...
File:Animal collection National Museum of Nature and Science.jpg , Animal collection
File:Giant Squid Specimen.jpg, Specimen of giant squid
file:Indricotherium.jpg, '' Paraceratherium''
File:Protypotherium Fossil.jpg, '' Protypotherium''
File:Triceratops Raymond National Museum of Nature and Science.jpg, Fossil of '' Triceratops'' named "Raymond"
File:Mola mola Stuffed specimen.jpg, largest taxidermy of '' Mola mola''
File:Basilosaurus and Tylosaurus.jpg, '' Basilosaurus'' and '' Tylosaurus''
File:Nantan Meteorite National Museum of Nature and Science.jpg, The largest fragment of Nantan meteorite
File:Tyrannosaurus rex Bucky - National Museum of Nature and Science.jpg, ''Tyrannosaurus rex
''Tyrannosaurus'' () is a genus of large theropoda, theropod dinosaur. The type species ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' ( meaning 'king' in Latin), often shortened to ''T. rex'' or colloquially t-rex, is one of the best represented theropods. It live ...
''
File:Moon rock National Museum of Nature and Science.jpg, Moon rock
File:Displays - National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo - DSC07503.JPG, Taxidermy Displays
National research facility
Museum research facility * Tsukuba Botanical Garden Other National research facilities * Ueno Zoo * Tama Zoo * Tokyo Sea Life ParkAccess
* Ueno Station * Uguisudani Station * Keisei Ueno StationSee also
* Institute for Nature Study * Hachikō * List of museums * National Science Museum (disambiguation) * Tokyo National Museum * Hisako KoyamaReferences
External links
National Museum of Nature and Science
– official site in English
National Museum of Nature and Science on Google Cultural Institute
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