Asama Volcano Museum

Asama Volcano Museum
浅間火山博物館
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Location	Naganohara-machi, Agatsuma-gun, Gunma Prefecture
Coordinates	36°26′24″N 138°32′07″E / 36.44000°N 138.53528°ECoordinates: 36°26′24″N 138°32′07″E / 36.44000°N 138.53528°E
Type	Volcano museum
Website	Asama Volcano Museum

The Asama Volcano Museum (浅間火山博物館, Asama-kazan Hakubutsukan), 4 km (2.5 mi) from the crater of the active complex volcano Mount Asama^[1] in Japan, open from 1993 to 2020, explained volcanoes.

The museum was in Naganohara-machi, Agatsuma-gun, Gunma Prefecture. As of early 2009, it was open from April until November.

Visitor numbers peaked at 265,000 in 1994; however, seismic activity at nearby Mount Asama was one reason for frequent closures. The closures were a factor in the drop in visitors:^[2] this gradually fell to 23,000.^[1] In the later years of the museum, most of the visitors were on school excursions.^[2] The museum was running a deficit of about 17 million yen per year, paid for by the town of Naganohara. Additionally, the building was ageing, and maintenance threatened to cost hundreds of millions of yen.^[1]^[2]

A nearby building, Asama memorial hall (浅間記念館) exhibited motorbikes; the plan in summer 2020 was to move these to a municipally owned tourist facility, Asama pasture (浅間牧場), and to move some of the exhibits of the volcano museum to the memorial hall.^[1]

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^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d 浅間火山博物館閉館へ, 『読売新聞』(Yomiuri Shinbun), 8 August 2020. Accessed 1 July 2021.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c 浅間火山博物館を閉館　年度内に長野原町　新型コロナで休館中, 『上毛新聞』 (Jōmō Shinbun), 9 August 2020. Accessed 1 July 2021.

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[yomiuri-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d 浅間火山博物館閉館へ, 『読売新聞』(Yomiuri Shinbun), 8 August 2020. Accessed 1 July 2021.

[jomo-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c 浅間火山博物館を閉館　年度内に長野原町　新型コロナで休館中, 『上毛新聞』 (Jōmō Shinbun), 9 August 2020. Accessed 1 July 2021.

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