was opened in

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city on October 1, 1989 in honour of

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and his contributions to the development of modern science in Japan. The building is modeled on his former house in

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, and the entrance is modeled after the former home of Siebold's grandfather, Karl Caspar. The museum displays 206 items classified into six categories describing Von Siebold's six-year stay in Nagasaki, the so-called "Siebold incident", and his life work on Japan. It also exhibits his

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and items about his common law wife Kusumoto Taki and their daughter

Kusumoto Ine Kusumoto Ine (, 31 May 182727 August 1903; born Shiimoto Ine ) was a Japanese physician. She was the first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan. She was the daughter of Kusumoto Taki, who was a courtesan from Nagasaki; and the German ph ...

, who eventually became Japan's first female

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Siebold Residence Site

The museum is located next to the site of Narutaki-juku, a private school established by Siebold in the suburbs of Nagasaki in 1824. It also served as a clinic. The Narutaki-juku was a two-story wooden building with a library and other facilities, and medicinal herbs collected by Siebold from all over Japan were cultivated in the garden. Siebold taught a wide range of scientific fields, including Western medicine and natural science. More than 50 people studied at Narutaki-juku, including Takano Choei, Itō Genboku and Itō Keisuke. The building was demolished in 1894, and now all that remains are two wells and a tree planted by Siebold. The location was designated a National Historic Site in 1922, under the name "former Siebold residence", although Siebold did not actually live at this location, but commuted to the school from

Dejima or Deshima, in the 17th century also called , was an artificial island off Nagasaki, Japan, that served as a trading post for the Portuguese (1570–1639) and subsequently the Dutch (1641–1858). For 220 years, it was the central con ...

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Siebold Residence Site

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