Osaka Museum of Natural History explained

is a museum of natural history in Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Ōsaka, Japan.

History

A preparatory committee for the establishment of the museum was set up in 1949, and late the following year the first display opened on the second floor of Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts. Designated a museum-equivalent facility in accordance with the Museum Act in 1952, the opened in a repurposed elementary school in 1958. This predecessor institution closed to the public in 1973. The renamed Osaka Museum of Natural History opened in Nagai Park in 1974.^[1]

Collections

The collection comprises over one million items,^[2] while the display includes the Pleistocene megafauna Palaeoloxodon naumanni (Naumann's elephant) and (Yabe's giant deer).^[3]

Publications

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See also

• Museums in Osaka
• Wildlife of Japan

External links

• Osaka Museum of Natural History
• Electronic edition of the Museum Guidebook
• Archive of the Bulletin and other papers
• Bulletin of the Osaka Museum of Natural History

Notes and References

1. Web site: http://www.mus-his.city.osaka.jp/about/brief.html . ja:博物館沿革 . History of the Museum . Japanese . Osaka Museum of Natural History . 25 May 2021.
2. Web site: https://bunka.nii.ac.jp/museums/detail/462 . ja:大阪市立自然史博物館 . Osaka Museum of Natural History . Japanese . . 25 May 2021.
3. Web site: Exhibition . Osaka Museum of Natural History . 25 May 2021.
4. Web site: http://www.mus-nh.city.osaka.jp/publication/bulletin/ . ja:大阪市立自然史博物館研究報告 . Bulletin of the Osaka Museum of Natural History . Osaka Museum of Natural History . 25 May 2021.