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Hokkaido University Museum

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The Hokkaido University Museum (Hokkaidō Daigaku Sōgō Hakubutsukan) opened in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1999. The collection comprises some four million materials, including thirteen thousand type specimens, amassed by Hokkaido University in the hundred and fifty years since the foundation in of its predecessor, the Sapporo Agricultural College, in 1876.

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