THE TOHOKU UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

Outline of Tohoku University Museum

The Tohoku University has been ticking over ninety years, accumulating specimens which had been collected for research or purchased for education. Now specimens amount to over 2 millions. More than one thousand examples of them are exhibited, which includes fossils of every geologic period, rocks and minerals from the world, and topographic maps of mainly Asia. Our museum is characterized by possessing background research works for a long time, so it is proud the sufficient quantity and also quality.

Human beings have built up a highly civilized society. On the other hand they have been having a great influence on the earth environment. The highly developed technologies change the circumstances not only in nature and in comunication, but also in moral. This is relating to the fact of decrease in the natural. The sensitivity human must have, would raise up just in nature. Moreover interest and curiosity for nature is a primitive step toward natural science. Recently the people are apt to be indifferent to nature. We should understand the past time's earth environment to look at the future's. We should live with the natural, however the civilization had much more developed. We shall be happy that a lot of people came to our museum and took an opportunity to increase one's interest in nature.

WHAT’S ON AT THE MUSEUM

Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum No.23
March 2024

［Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum] new publication

•Silurian cephalopods from the Gionyama Formation in the Kuraoka area, Miyazaki Prefecture, Southwest Japan / Shuji Niko
•Late Devonian longiconic nautiloids from the Tobigamori Formation, Iwate Prefecture, Northeast Japan / Shuji Niko and Masayuki Ehiro
•Two Olenekian (Early Triassic) species of longiconic cephalopods from the Osawa Formation, Miyagi Prefecture, Northeast Japan / Shuji Niko and Masayuki Ehiro
•A new species of Parisicaris (Microcarididae, Thylacocephala) from the upper Olenekian (Lower Triassic) Osawa Formation in the South Kitakami Belt, Northeast Japan / Masayuki Ehiro and Harumasa Kano
•Reexamination of the jar coffin excavated from the Sannotoge site in Aomori Prefecture / Yoshitaka Kanomata, Hinako Aoki, Fumihito Nagase, Junmei Sawada, Fumiko Saeki and Daisei Kodama
•Highresolution 3-D measurement of stone chanber of Yunokuma Tumulus in Fukuoka Prefecture using SfM method / Atsushi Fujisawa, Harumasa Kano, Yoshinori Tajiri and Masanao Shimura
•Techno-typological study of clay stupas from the Tagajo abandoned temple site using X-ray CT / Yi Lian, Harumasa Kano and Yoshitaka Kanomata

The Tohoku University Museum was founded in April 1998 and celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2023. We would like to thank you for the patronage over the past quarter of a century. We have created a commemorative logo in the shape of the number 25 using ammonites, one of our representative specimens (designed by Haruka Koide). We will continue to strive for research, education and information activities, and aim to be a museum that is loved by everyone.

Digital Specimen Database “e-Foram Stock” opening to the public.

This is a dynamic archive of 3D virtual specimen, named “e-Specimen”, which has been developed for the direct delivery of morphological information on scientific specimen from the museum repositories to your desk over computer networks.

THE TOHOKU UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

Outline of Tohoku University Museum

WHAT’S ON AT THE MUSEUM

Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum No.23
March 2024

News letter [Omnividens] new publication　No.70
March 2024