Museum Node of Japan
Modified
28 October 2021
Description
As a comprehensive science museum constituting the only national institution of its type in Japan, the National Museum of Nature and Science has a mission to collect, preserve and pass on to the next generation a wide range of materials concerned with natural science and its applications, to promote scientific investigation and research, and to make the collections and research results available to the public as an opportunity for lifelong learning. One of the museum's projects is to develop databases of natural history collections and to make their digitial data available through the internet.