Yakumo Town Local Museum
The Yakumo Town Local Museum opened on May 20, 1978 (Showa 53), on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of former vassals of the Owari Tokugawa family moving to Yakumo, for the purpose of local promotion and of preserving local cultural assets left by the predecessors.
Organized around the three themes of “History and Climate,” “Development and People’s Lives,” and “Industry” in the Yakumo area, the exhibition rooms display stuffed animals and plant specimens found in the town, fossils of walruses and shellfish from about 5 million years ago to about 600,000 years ago, archaeological materials from the Paleolithic period to the Satsumon period, materials related to Ainu people such as Toshizo Shiiku and Takojiro Benkai, agricultural equipment and restored housing used by migrants from Aichi prefecture, Tokugawa farm-related materials, agricultural equipment such as plows used for clearing and dairy farming, fishery data on the first natural salmon hatching carried out continuously in Hokkaido, mining materials from gold, silver, and copper mining to rhodochrosite mining, materials on the birthplace of butter candy, and materials on Meiji-era kiln remains, which have rarely been excavated in Hokkaido.
The collection includes items excavated from the Kotan Onsen site, a nationally designated important cultural property, spouted red earthenware, a prefecturally designated important cultural property, and is open to the public during special exhibitions (not a permanent exhibition).
