Nemuro City Museum of History and Nature
is a museum-equivalent facility in Nemuro, Hokkaidō, Japan. It was established by the City of Nemuro in 2004 and is classed as a general museum, collecting and exhibiting materials relating both to the humanities and the natural sciences. History The red-brick building in which the museum is housed dates to 1942, when it was built for a communications detail from the Imperial Japanese Navy Ōminato Guard District. Repurposed after the war as the schoolhouse for Hanasakiminato Junior School, after the school relocated to new premises, from 1990 it served, as the , for storage, research into, and the display of materials relating to the area's natural and cultural history. Since October 2004, with its name changed to Nemuro City Museum of History and Nature, it has operated as a museum-equivalent facility, designated in accordance with the Museum Act. Collection The collection of some forty thousand items includes a painting of the ship Ekaterina (俄羅斯舩之図), dating from the time Adam Laxman arrived aboard the vessel on his 1792 Japanese expedition, and designated a Municipal Tangible Cultural Property; one of the four main boundary markers placed in 1906 along the 50th parallel at the time of the demarcation of the Sakhalin frontier