1st Exhibition Room

“The Nature World Around Us”

This exhibition room is primarily structured around diorama reproductions which depict actual scenes using models and specimens. The scenes depict nature in Osaka, and slowly broaden perspectives from daily examples like the urban lifestyle to nature in suburbs, and to farther examples like nature untouched by humans.

This will be helpful for those who live in Osaka as well as visitors from overseas to intuitively understand the relationship between nature and our lives.

Visitors can enjoy, while browsing, looking for familiar organisms or even discussing differences between what is shown in the exhibition and familiar organisms with those accompanying them.

For those who are from overseas

All organisms have their generic names and scientific names. Universal scientific names are given to prevent confusion due to there being multiple generic names for each organism. The universal scientific names, which are in Latin, are displayed at each exhibit. You will be able to search these names to look for a closely-related species around you.

• Go to detailed explanation of the exhibition
• Watch a video presentation by curators

1−4 Nature of country forest

Country forests surrounding farmlands which are used for firewood and charcoal are called “SATOYAMA.” This is a space inhabited by a variety of organisms despite being utilized by human beings for hundreds and thousands of years. Nature in SATOYAMA is explained in detail in the 5th Exhibition Room.

• Go to the exhibition