Abstract
The Educational Museum in Toronto was selected as a model when the Japanese Ministry of Education planned a new museum in Tokyo in 1877. The new museum, the predecessor of the present National Science Museum, was the 11th educational museum in the world. This article discusses the history of the Educational Museum in Toronto which was called the first educational museum in the world and discusses which parts of the Canadian museum Tanaka Fujimaro, as a founder, introduced into the Japanese one.
