Hiroshima City Ebayama Museum of Meteorology

infobox Museum
name= Hiroshima City Ebayama Museum of Meteorology
広島市江波山気象館 "Hiroshima-shi Ebayama Kishokan"



imagesize= 280
established= January, 1879,
built in December, 1934,
moved current place in January, 1935
location= 40-1, Ebaminami 1-chome, Naka-ku, Hiroshima
director= Date Saburo
website= [http://www.ebayama.jp/ www.ebayama.jp]

The nihongo|Hiroshima City Ebayama Museum of Meteorology|広島市江波山気象館|Hiroshima-shi Ebayama Kishōkan was the first museum of meteorology in Japan. It is located in Ebayama Park in the city of Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

History

*Opened as the Japanese first Prefecutal meteorological observatory in Kako-machi, Hiroshima, Aki, Hiroshima on January 1, 1879.
*Moved to Kokutaiji-machi, Hiroshima, Aki, Horoshima on December 31, 1892.
*New building was completed in Eba-machi, Hiroshima in 1934.
*Moved to the new building on January 1, 1935.
*Nationarized as the Hiroshima weather station of the Central Meteorological Observatory of the Ministry of Education on November 1, 1939.
*Renewed as the Hiroshima Meteorological Observatory of the Ministry of Transport in November 1943.
*Suffered from the A-bomb, lost staff and instruments but continued the observation on August 6, 1945.
*Renamed as the Hiroshima District Meteorological Observatory on August 11, 1945.
*Suffered great damage from the Makurazaki Typhoon on September 17, 1945.
*Renamed sa the Hiroshima Local Meteorological Observatory on November 1, 1949.
*The competent authorities was changed to the Meteorological Agency on July 1, 1956.
*The Hiroshima Local Meteorological Observatory was moved to Kami-hachobori, Naka-ku, Hiroshima on December 22, 1987.
*The building was placed under the Hiroshima City to preserve on November 1, 1990.
*The building was reborn as the first Museum of Meteorology in Japan on June 1, 1992.
*The building was designated as the important cultural assets by Hiroshima City on July 25, 2000.
*Started the weather forecast for Hiroshima city area on July 20, 2003.

Museum

Permanent exhibitions

*Study tour of the weather forecast
*search the weather information through the internet
*Videos
*Instruments for the weather observation
*Experiment services of the weather
**Wind capsule
**Laboratories of Franklin
*Consultations about the weather

pecial exhibitions

Education programs

*Science show
**Delivery services of the science show
*Science work shop
*Natural science
*Science volunteer activities
*Internship system
*Weekly mail magazine

Museum shop

Modern cultural heritage

*Prewar style building
**Windows with the shorter side at the top
**Side belt and other parts of the wall with uneven decoration
**Simple geometric design
**Thin eaves of the porch
**Original design of the capitals
**Time consumed interior decorations
* [http://www.ebayama.jp/museum/ISAN.HTM photos]

A-bombed building

*Preserved the A-bombed wall
*Bent window frame by the bomb blast
*The wall with the stuck grass
* [http://www.ebayama.jp/genbaku/genbaku-html/kizuato/kizuatohtml.html photos]

Access

*Hiroden Eba-sakae-machi bus stop
*Hiroden Eba Station

ee also

*Atomic Bombing - August 6, 1945
*Makurazaki Typhoon - September 17, 1945
**one of the three largest Typhoons in Shōwa period
**1229 dead, 1054 injured, 783 missing in Hiroshima Prefecture
*"A Blank in the Weather Map" - A non-fiction book about the Hiroshima Meteorological Observatory in 1945 - written by Kunio Yanagida
* Hiroshima Witness

External links

* [http://www.ebayama.jp/ Hiroshima City Ebayama Museum of Meteorology]
* [http://www.hcvb.city.hiroshima.jp/e_navigator/main/1_05.html Hiroshima City Ebayama Museum of Meteorology]
* [http://www.arch-hiroshima.net/a-map/hiroshima/ebayama.html Hiroshima City Ebayama Museum of Meteorology @ architecture in Hiroshima]
* [http://www.ebayama.jp/museum/kanbeki.htm Record the day of A-bomb by the Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=%E6%B1%9F%E6%B3%A2%E5%B1%B1%E6%B0%97%E8%B1%A1%E9%A4%A8&sll=34.451086,132.439499&sspn=0.253097,0.466919&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=11&om=1&iwloc=A Location from Google Maps]