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A red brick building known locally as the forest chalet, giving the fullest account in the province of Ainu history and colonisation.
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Hokkaido University Museum
Housed in the university's 1929 science building, so the modernist architecture is as much the exhibit as the four million specimens.
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Asahikawa City Museum
Built around Kamikawa Ainu material - dugout canoes and ritual objects presented as working tools rather than curiosities.
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Kenbuchi Picture Book Village
A village of 3,000 rebuilt its identity around picture books, and has run an original-illustration prize ever since.
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Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples
Ranges Ainu material beside Sami and Inuit - the only museum in Japan that treats the whole circumpolar north as one subject.
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Hakodate City Museum
One of the oldest museums in Japan, holding what gathered in this treaty port and the Ainu craft of southern Hokkaido.
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Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples
In a former Bank of Japan branch, holding a major Ainu collection strong in attus, the cloth woven from tree bark.
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National Ainu Museum
Japan's only national museum of an indigenous people, presenting Ainu pattern and carving as living practice rather than ethnography.
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Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum
Nibutani's wood carving and bark weaving are the only Ainu crafts designated traditional by the state - and the makers still live here.
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Ikeda Town Grape and Wine Research Institute (Ikeda Wine Castle)
Municipal wine begun by Ikeda Town in 1963. The town bred its own hybrids with wild mountain grapes that withstand cold damage.
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Hokkaido Research Organization Industrial Research Institute
A public testing and research institute of Hokkaido Prefecture. It provides manufacturing technology to companies.