Museum Research and Outreach Centered at the UMUT Hall of Inspiration

  • SDG4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
  • SDG14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
  • SDG15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Yoshihiro Nishiaki
University Museum
Director/Professor
The University Museum, the University Tokyo (UMUT) promotes research of global significance related to scientific objects and specimens. The UMUT’s collection of over 3.4 million items forms the basis of our research ranging from the solar system to the origins of humans and civilizations, to historically academic heritage materials. We center our activities on the “UMUT Hall of Inspiration,” a newly opened permanent exhibit that showcases research laboratory activities within the public exhibit domain. We also annually conduct special exhibits within the “UMUT Hall of Inspiration,” as well as exhibits at the Koishikawa Annex, the JP Tower Museum Intermediateque, and other facilities. Through our outreach activities, we seek to spread new results of materials-based research from a broad perspective and show the necessity for long-term and balanced futuristic views of nature, humans and social systems.
Permanent Exhibit: The UMUT Hall of Inspiration, from the Solar System to Humans (continued from 2016).
Credit: The University Museum, the University of Tokyo
Regional-cooperation Exhibit: School Mobile Museum: the University of Tokyo, the House of Entomology (Bunkyo-Ward Education Center, June to October 2017)
Credit: The University Museum, The University of Tokyo

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Related publications

- UMUT Hall of Inspiration. Eds. Y. Nishiaki, G. Suwa, H. Endo (University of Tokyo Press, 2016).
- The Count of Clouds: Mount Fuji Through the Eyes of Masanao Abe. Ed. Y. Nishino (The University Museum the University of Tokyo, 2016).
- Jikifu - A Japanese Aesthetics of Taste. S. Ogata (University of Tokyo Press, 2016).
- Akamon -from Youhime Palace to the University of Tokyo. Eds. H.Horiuchi and Y. Nishiaki (University of Tokyo Press, 2017).
- The Golden Age of Botanical Art - Flowers from the Collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Eds. A. Terada and M. Akishinonomiya (The University Museum the University of Tokyo, 2017).
- The Dawn of Prehistory in Japan. Eds. G. Suwa et al. (University of Tokyo Press, 2017).
- The Early Acheulean,Konso Ethiopia. Eds. G. Suwa et al. (University of Tokyo Press, 2017).

Contact

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