Hokkaido Museum 北海道博物館
The permanent exhibition hall covers 3,000 m² over two floors and includes 8 ‘Closeup’ sections that periodically rotate the items on display, as well as the reconstructed skeletons of a mammoth and a Naumann's elephant in the entrance hall.
Regional museum in Sapporo, at 北海道札幌市厚別区厚別町小野幌53-2 (〒004-0006). It opened on 18 April 2015, successor to the earlier institution 北海道開拓記念館, active from 1971. The permanent exhibition hall covers 3,000 m² over two floors (‘総合展示は、1・2階合わせて3,000㎡の広さがあります’) and deals with the nature, history and culture of Hokkaido in five thematic areas: the meeting of north and south, 1.2 million years of Hokkaido history, the world of Ainu culture, the distinctive features of Hokkaido, towards our own era. The reconstructed skeletons of a mammoth and a Naumann's elephant are on display in the entrance hall.
Hokkaido
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