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The first full insect museum on the Sea of Japan coast, with a greenhouse where butterflies fly all year.
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The Ishikawa Insect Museum is a prefectural museum (insect museum) in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture. It was established as a facility where visitors can learn the importance of nature by interacting with insects, and opened on 22 July 1998 (Heisei 10). Inside, about 1,600 species of insect specimens are displayed, and in the Butterfly Garden, the largest butterfly-release greenhouse on the Sea of Japan side, visitors can watch about 1,000 butterflies of about 10 species flying all year round.
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