アキシマエンシス 郷土資料館

Walk from Akishima station. ・ Akishima Ensis → Tsutsujigaoka Kita Elementary School (closed in H28). ・ Local collection room → International exchange culture building, event plaza side You can't take pictures here. I saw it in Akishima Days # 58. The food stall for the target festival was bigger than I had imagined. If you think that there are few materials, there is another section. ・ Local materials exhibition room (school building) → If you read the usage guide for local materials carefully, It is not a building for international exchange. The school building and the building are different. It seems to ask the staff, but I'm in the middle of shopping, so when I have time again in the school building.

Library, local history museum, and other public complexes. There is a play space for children and a relaxing cafe for adults. It is interesting that the exhibits such as whale fossils are devised. It is a short walk from the mall.

This facility (such as the public library and local museum) opened in 2000. (The opening was slightly delayed due to the coronavirus.) The name of this facility was that in 1961, a fossil of a whale that seems to be about 1.7 million years ago was found in the Tama River in Akishima City and was named Eschrichtius akishimaensis. Therefore, it became Akishima Ensis. It is said that photography is prohibited inside, but even from the outside you can see that a large fossil replica of a whale is on display.