Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples | |
Native Name: | 函館市北方民族資料館 |
Address: | 21-7 Suehiro-chō |
Location Town: | Hakodate, Hokkaidō |
Location Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 41.7671°N 140.712°W |
Opened Date: | November 1989 |
first opened as the in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1989. Located in the former Bank of Japan Hakodate Branch building of 1926, after the transfer out of materials relating to the poet to the, the museum reopened in its current guise in April 1993. It displays objects that were formerly part of the collection of the, including materials relating to the Orok as well as 750 items used in the daily life of the Ainu that have been jointly designated an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property.[1] [2]