Tohoku University Museum

東北大学総合学術博物館

Tohoku University Museum in Miyagi Prefecture is the university's integrated academic museum, described on its official site as a treasury of earth and nature where visitors can learn about earth life evolution, a changing earth, and diverse academic specimens. The museum preserves collections from a century of research, conducts specimen-based work with internal and outside scholars, and shares current findings with the local community. Its site also publishes a foraminifera type-specimen image database drawn from the collection.