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Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Asia

Tohoku University Museum

Museum or Collection Type:
Natural History & Natural Science
Institutional Type:
Museum
Subject: 
Mineralogy, Natural History, Natural Sciences, Palaeontology

Address:
6-3 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578 Japan

Opening Hours:
OPEN HOURS 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
CLOSED DAYS : every Monday (Tuesday when a national holiday falls on Monday)
Dec. 28-Jan.3
Also closed on the following day temporarily.
12 to 15 August 2016,
28 August 2016

Contact:
joho@museum.tohoku.ac.jp
Phone: +81(0)227956767
Fax: +81(0)227956767

Additional information:
The building of Tohoku University Museum is now planning, and exhibitions are held at the Museum of Natural History, Tohoku University.

Links:
Tohoku University Museum
Tohoku University

Description:
The Tohoku University has been ticking over hundred years, accumulating specimens which had been collected for research or purchased for education. Now specimens amount to over 2 millions. More than one thousand examples of them are exhibited, which includes fossils of every geologic period, rocks and minerals from the world, and topographic maps of mainly Asia. Our museum is characterized by possessing background research works for a long time, so it is proud the sufficient quantity and also quality. (From Museum website)

Further Reading:
"Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum" and News letter "Omnividens".


 




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