In order to display the historical and technological data preserved in Japanese universities and to verify it, one must realize that the technological education in universities during the process in which Japan established a state on the basis of industry played vital role in its successful outcome. This is what makes a university museum of technological history so important. However, in Japan there are very few universities that have museums, while most well-known universities in Europe and America do. In the past several years, museums in general, which contain a cultural aspect and a scientific one, have been established in national universities which were called imperial universities long ago. However, there are still few universities which preserve such data or are home technological museums. In this lecture, the present situation and the problems concerning the university museums which house the technological history of Japan are reported.
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