National Science Museum of Japan

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Steam locomotive in front of the National Science Museum.

The National Science Museum of Japan (国立科学博物館, Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan^?) is located in the northeast corner of Ueno park in Tokyo. Opened in 1871 and recently renovated, it offers a wide variety of natural history exhibitions and interactive scientific experiences.

The museum also has exhibitions on pre-Meiji science in Japan.

1 Research branches
2 See also
3 External links
4 Science and industry (3F)

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Tsukuba Botanical Garden

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List of museums
National Science Museum - disambiguation page
Tokyo National Museum

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[edit] Science and industry (3F)

Japan's first treatise on Western anatomy, published in 1774.	A Japanese-made wadokei clockwatch of the 18th century, or Wadokei.	A Japanese-made perpetual clockwatch, 1851.	Tanaka Hisashige's 1851 perpetual clock
Mitsubishi A6M2 "Zero" Model 21 (cowling removed).	Tea-serving karakuri, with mechanism, 19th century.	Japan's first electrostatic generator (1776), developed through Rangaku. Static electricity was produced through the friction of a glass tube with a gold-plated stick. The experiments thus obtained were very popular in Edo.	A Western book on medicine, translated into Japanese, published in March 1808.
Japan's first manual on electric phenomena, published in 1811.