Botanic Garden, Hokkaidō University
Historic wooded botanical garden with a wooden museum of Ainu artifacts and taxidermied specimens.
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This guide to the Botanic Garden at Hokkaido University in Sapporo sets its 1884 wooden museum, home to Ainu artifacts and the taxidermied sled dog Taro, against the university's medical faculty digging up Ainu burial grounds through the 1930s and taking over a thousand sets of remains without consent. You'll hear how the bones sat catalogued for decades before a lawsuit settled in 2017 began slow returns, and what the university eventually acknowledged. Walk the garden's four thousand plant species with that history in mind.
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