Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum

The Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum (仙台市富沢遺跡保存館, Sendai-shi Tomizawa iseki hozonkan) is an archaeology museum in the city of Sendai in northern Japan that preserves a fossilized forest, where the remains of human habitation that occurred 20,000 years ago were discovered during surveying work in 1988. The museum opened in 1996.

Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum
仙台市富沢遺跡保存館
The Tomizawa Site Museum
Established2 November 1996
Location4-3-1 Nagamachi-minami, Taihaku-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Coordinates38°13′22″N 140°52′21″E
TypeArchaeology museum
OwnerThe city of Sendai
Public transit accessNagamachi-Minami Station
Websitewww.sendai-c.ed.jp/~bunkazai/~chiteinomori/english/

Facility

The Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum is a 2,700-square-meter (29,000 sq ft) archaeology museum in Taihaku-ku, Sendai. Eighty percent of the building's total area is occupied by exhibition space, with the remaining parts of the facility being used as classrooms and spaces where interactive events are held. These learning spaces are utilized for activities such as the creation of stone implements and learning basic archaeological procedures.[1]

Exhibit

The museum preserves a fossilized forest where the remains of human habitation that occurred 20,000 years ago were discovered.[2] Artifacts from this campsite include small pieces of coalified material from the ancient campfire and hundreds of discarded stone implements.[3] The museum's basement preserves the fossilized forests and remains of the human habitation which had previously been kept intact by ground water. The remains are displayed in a room with a high ovular ceiling that is supported without vertical beams that would obstruct the view of the exhibit. A projection on the walls of the exhibition room displays an interpretation of how the area is theorized to have appeared 20,000 years ago.[4]

History

In 1988, surveys were being conducted in the area of the museum for a proposed elementary school. While the work was being done, the remains of a 20,000 year old campsite were found among the remains of an ancient forest. After the discovery, the plans for the elementary school were allocated to another location. After five years of conceptualization and two years of construction,[5] the museum opened on 2 November 1996.[6]

See also

References
  1. "市民文化財研究員活動報告12" [Citizen Cultural Property Researcher Activity Report 12] (in Japanese). Sendai Board of Education. March 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  2. "仙台市富沢遺跡保存館 地底の森ミュージアム" [Sendai City Tomizawa Ruins Preservation Museum Underground Forest Museum] (in Japanese). Sendai Tourism, Convention and International Association. 6 December 2020. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  3. "Basement gallery". Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  4. "Main Exhibit". Sendai Board of Education. 2010. Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  5. "地底の森ミュージアム" [Underground Forest Museum] (in Japanese). Miyagi Society of Building Architects and Engineers. 12 April 2007. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  6. "歴史・沿革" [History] (in Japanese). Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum. 2017. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
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