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Housed in the university's 1929 science building, so the modernist architecture is as much the exhibit as the four million specimens.
About this place
The Hokkaido University Museum (北海道大学総合博物館, Hokkaidō Daigaku Sōgō Hakubutsukan) opened in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1999. The collection comprises some four million materials, including thirteen thousand type specimens, amassed by Hokkaido University in the hundred and fifty years since the foundation in of its predecessor, the Sapporo Agricultural College, in 1876.
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Source ja.wikipedia.org ↗Key facts
Founded / opened：1999 Highlights / collection：4 million academic specimens, Architecture of the former Faculty of Science main building Genre：Architecture, Antique art and Buddhist art
Source ja.wikipedia.org ↗Official website
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