Iwakuni Educational Museum of Archive Collection (岩国学校教育資料館)
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| Iwakuni Educational Museum of Archive Collection (岩国学校教育資料館) |
The Iwakuni Educational Museum of Archive Collection (岩国学校教育資料館) is a school museum, located next to the Iwakuni Elementary School, in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
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| Ichisuke Fujioka Memorial Corner |
The museum building was originally constructed for Iwakuni Gakko (岩国学校), which officially opened in February 1871 at a nearby location. This was part of an educational reform initiated in 1870 by Kikkawa Tsunetake, the second head of the Iwakuni Domain, which reorganized former military and literary schools into public middle and elementary schools. The initial structure was a two-story building with classrooms on the lower level and teachers' rooms above; a third floor was added in 1872.
Notable alumni include Ichisuke Fujioka, regarded as the father of Japanese electricity and founder of Hakunetsusha (now Toshiba); Inagi Tanaka, the first director of the Imperial Library; and Gonpei Oya, a prominent authority on railroads.
The building was relocated to its current site in 1907 and reopened as a museum in 1972.
Today, the museum features the Ichisuke Fujioka Memorial Corner and a textbook exhibition room on the first floor. The second floor houses exhibits on local history materials, agricultural tools, and production and silk reeling tools.
