Technology and history of resource development is the main subject of the exhibition on the 3rd floor. The exploration of ore deposit, mining, refining and smelting are systematically explained showing numbers of instrument for mining and model of plant. The exhibitions on the distribution of natural resources, mine safety and prevention of pollution, renewable energy and history of mining in Akita are also on display.
Locality, products and type of ore deposit of principal mines of the world, Japan and Akita area are shown on the large terrestrial globe and geological relief maps.
These fine models represented by the Freiberg model collection were mostly collected in the period of Akita mining school for the education of mining technology. Some new models of smelting plants and instruments of ore dressing were made at our 100thanniversary, 2011.
An exhibition of old drawings illustrating mines in Akita in the Late Edo-Meiji Era.
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