Preserve the ruins from 20,000 years ago! Feel the time of eternity at the Underground Forest Museum!

Speaking of museums, they are places where artifacts excavated from ruins are carefully arranged and displayed.
Looking at the exhibits and imagining what life was like back then is a perfect way to spend your time as an adult.
However, the exhibits in museums are limited to excavated items, so you can only imagine what kind of place people lived in. If you
really want to know, you'll need to go to the ruins in person.

However, there is a museum here in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, that is
unique in the world in that it displays and preserves the ruins exactly as they were when they were excavated.The name of this museum is "The Underground Forest Museum .
It's an unusual name that you'll never forget once you've heard it.

This time, we will introduce you to the "Underground Forest Museum"!

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The ruins are displayed exactly as they were when they were excavated!

The Underground Forest Museum is a museum where excavated ruins are displayed exactly as they were.
As soon as you enter the museum, the ruins of a huge wetland appear before your eyes.

the Sannai-Maruyama ruins in Tohoku are famous.
This is a Jomon period ruin, and was the site of a settlement with a group of houses and warehouses.

On the other hand, the exhibits at the "Underground Forest Museum" are from the Paleolithic period.
There are no buildings, just remains of a campfire from what appears to have been a day's camping, and scattered stone tools.
It's amazing that the events of just one day in the Stone Age can remain exactly as they were in the present day.

So how could traces of just one day's camping have been preserved for thousands of years?

The reason for this is probably because Tomizawa, where the Underground Forest Museum is located, is a wetland. The remains of the bonfire, which would normally have been weathered by dust and dirt, were completely sealed by the mud of the wetland over time, and remained buried underground without being weathered or oxidized

It's hard not to feel romantic about the eternal passage of time!

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The second floor exhibition room where you can learn about life at that time

The first floor of the museum the Tomizawa ruins as they were, but the second floor is a semi-experiential exhibition room where you can explore life at the time together with "Dr. Tomizawa" through artifacts excavated at the Tomizawa ruins.

Professor Tomizawa, an original character from the "Underground Forest Museum," will reveal what kind of hunting lifestyle people lived at that time based on excavated campfire remains and stone tools

It's in the form of a quiz, so it makes you feel like you're thinking about it together. It's designed to be enjoyable for both adults and children, so if you visit with your family, you can have fun learning about history!

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A recreation of the Ice Age forest from 20,000 years ago!

Once you leave the exhibition room, you will reach the exit, but your journey into the Paleolithic era is not over yet

In fact, the garden of the "Underground Forest Museum" is planted with plants that grew in the Tomizawa area at the time!

It's called " Ice Age Forest "!

Although they were unable to recreate the extinct Tomizawa spruce, they were able to use a similar tree, the red spruce. You can see the three zones that once covered Tomizawa: forest, grassland, and wetlands. It is no exaggeration to say that the landscape from approximately 20,000 years ago is on display almost exactly as it was

It's fun to imagine what life was like back then, with herds of deer coming to drink water and Paleolithic people building bonfires on hilltops

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summary

The "Underground Forest Museum" is a rare museum in the world that displays ruins from 20,000 years ago as they were. It is a facility that can be enjoyed by both adults and children, as you can learn about life at that time and experience the scenery of that time

If you want to experience Sendai's activities that have continued for 20,000 years, be sure to check it out!

INFORMATION

• Name: Underground Forest Museum
• Address: 4-3-1 Nagamachi Minami, Taihaku Ward, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, 982-0012
• Phone number: 022-246-9153
• Official URL: https://www.sendai-c.ed.jp/~bunkazai/~chiteinomori/

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