Kushiro City Museum 釧路市立博物館
The current building, shaped like a golden bird with its wings spread, won the 36th Architectural Institute of Japan Prize in 1984.
City museum of Kushiro (Hokkaido), founded on 14 July 1936 as 釧路市立郷土博物館 in the municipal offices. The current building, at Kushiro-shi, Harukodai 1-7 (〒085-0822), was completed in 1983 to a design by local architect 毛綱毅曠: it is shaped like a golden bird with its wings spread, and in 1984 it won the 36th Architectural Institute of Japan Prize. Inside, about 4,100 items are arranged by floor (fishing and mining on the first, urban culture on the second, Ainu heritage on the fourth), connected by a double-helix staircase decorated with 16 metal wires.
Hokkaido
旭町SC, 栄町6丁目, 栄町6丁目
