Hokuto City Hometown Museum | |
Native Name: | 北斗市郷土資料館 |
Address: | 1-1-1 Hon-chō |
Location Town: | Hokuto, Hokkaidō |
Location Country: | Japan |
Coordinates: | 41.8835°N 140.6439°W |
Opened Date: | 2006 |
is a museum of local history in Hokuto, Hokkaidō, Japan that came into being after the city's formation in 2006. The museum is successor to the former, which had a collection of some five thousand items with a focus on agriculture, as Ōno is where rice-farming was brought to Hokkaidō.[1] The collection of Hokuto City Hometown Museum includes artefacts from Yafurai-date that have been designated a Prefectural Tangible Cultural Property.[2] [3]
In 2019, the museum held an exhibition of finds from the ninety or so Jōmon-period sites identified to date in Hokuto, including the Moheji Site:[4] a spouted earthenware vessel with a figured design excavated at, together with fragments of a number of other vessels decorated with figures of human and non-human animals, has been designated an Important Cultural Property and is now in the collection of Tokyo National Museum.[5]