The opened in
Abashiri
is a city located in Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
Abashiri is known as the site of the Abashiri Prison, a Meiji-era facility used for the incarceration of political prisoners. The old prison has been turned into a museum, but the cit ...
,
Hokkaidō
is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel.
The la ...
, Japan in 1991. Dedicated to the various peoples of the North, across Eurasia and the Americas, the collection includes items relating to the
Sámi
The Sámi ( ; also spelled Sami or Saami) are a Finno-Ugric-speaking people inhabiting the region of Sápmi (formerly known as Lapland), which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and of the Murmansk Oblast, Rus ...
,
Nanai, and
Northwest Coast Indians, as well as the more local
Okhotsk culture
The Okhotsk culture is an archaeological coastal fishing and hunter-gatherer culture that developed around the southern coastal regions of the Sea of Okhotsk, including Sakhalin, northeastern Hokkaido, and the Kuril Islands during the last half o ...
and
Ainu.
See also
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Hokkaido Museum
opened in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan in 2015. Located within Nopporo Shinrin Kōen Prefectural Natural Park, the permanent exhibition is dedicated to the nature, history, and culture of Hokkaido. Also known as , the museum integrates and replaces ...
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Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples
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 Ap ...
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List of Historic Sites of Japan (Hokkaidō)
This list is of the Historic Sites of Japan located within the Circuit of Hokkaidō.
National Historic Sites
As of 1 September 2019, fifty-five Sites have been designated as being of national significance (including one * Special Historic Si ...
References
External links
Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples
Museums in Hokkaido
Abashiri, Hokkaido
Museums established in 1991
1991 establishments in Japan
Ethnic museums
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