Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum
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| place | Sendai , Japan |
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Archaeological Museum
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| opening | 1996 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | > 500,000 p. a. (2007) |
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財 団 法人 仙台 市 市民 文化 事業 団
(Legal Foundation Corporate Group Culture of Townspeople Sendai) |
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The Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum ( Japanese 仙台 市 富 沢 遺跡 保存 館 , Sendai-shi Tomizawa Iseki Hozonkan ) was opened on November 2, 1996 in the Taihaku District of Sendai on the site of the Tomizawa Archaeological Site.
Overview
In 1988, 20,000-year-old remains of a forest and traces of palaeolithic settlement were discovered on the prospecting land for the Nagamachi elementary school, which was located within the excavation site . It was decided to keep the site and make it accessible to the public. Construction of the museum building began in June 1994. When it opened in 1996, 80% of the future museum was made accessible to the public. A specialty of the museum is a forest museum ( 地 底 の 森 ミ ュ ー ジ ア ム , Chitei no mori myūjiam ), in which the exposed, 20,000 year old trees can be seen.
In addition to the remains of the forest, the flora of the Ice Age is displayed on a total of 14,263 m² of land. The museum itself has an upper and a lower floor with a total area of 2743 m². Although the museum was built from reinforced concrete, the basement in which the forest museum is located has no floor. In order to prevent the ingress of groundwater, the outer walls of the building are 80 cm thick and 20 m deep. The museum also shows stone tools, striking stones and knives from the Paleolithic .
Museum address: 3-1 Nagamache-minami 4-chome, Taihaku-ku , Sendai 982-0012
Web links
- Museum website (Japanese)
- Digital Museum (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 歴 史 ・ 沿革 . Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museums, accessed December 29, 2016 (Japanese).
Coordinates: 38 ° 13 ′ 22.1 ″ N , 140 ° 52 ′ 21 ″ E