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Saitama Museum of Natural History

Saitama Museum of Natural History is a prefectural museum of natural history in Nagatoro, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. The museum opened in 1981 and replaced "史" with "の" in its Japanese name in 2006. The Museum supersedes the Chichibu Natural Science Museum (秩父自然科学博物館) (1949–1980) and the Mineral and Plant Specimen Gallery (鑛物植物標本陳列所) (1921–1949), founded by the Chichibu Railway Company. The collection includes 56 pi…

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1921

Nagatoro, Nagatoro, Japan

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Saitama Museum of Natural History in Nagatoro, Japan

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Kunio Maekawa

1905-1986 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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Kunio Maekawa was a Japanese architect and a key figure of modernism in post-war Japan. After early stints in the studios of Le Corbusier and Antonin Raymond, Maekawa began to articulate his architectural language after establishing his firm in 1935, maintaining a continuous tension between Japanese traditional design…

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Mayekawa Associates

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