University of Tsukuba Art Collection

University Hall Floor Map (2nd floor)

Gift of Mr. Akira Ishii
Daigaku Kaikan Mae Bus Stop

From 2005 through 2010, Mr. Akira Ishii
former Chairman of Toshokan Ryutsu Center,
donated the University of Tsukuba with a substantial donation consisting of paintings,
prints, porcelain, etc. Part of the donation isdisplayed within the permanent Art Collectionof the University of Tsukuba, and serves as an
object of education and research. Local residents are also welcome to visit us and enjoy thecollection.

University of Tsukuba Gallery

The 30th Anniversary Hall

Tomonaga Memorial RoomShirakawa Memorial Room
Dr. Leo Esaki Memorial Exhibition
Dr. Yutaka Akino Memorial Exhibition
Laboratory Schools Exhibition
P. E. and Sport Exhibition
University of Tsukuba Art Collection

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University of Tsukuba
Art Space

University of Tsukuba Art Space
Access
University of Tsukuba Loop-line Bus
Highway BusBusApproximately 10 min. by bus from Tsukuba
Center (Tsukuba Station).
Take the bus bound for “Tsukuba Daigaku
Chuo” or “Tsukuba Daigaku Junkan(MigiMawari)”, and get off at “Daigaku
Kaikan Mae” bus stop.

University ofTsukuba GalleryDaigaku
Kaikan MaeBus Stop

10min

Approximately 8 km from “Sakura Tsuchiura”
Interchange of the Joban Expressway,in the direction of Mt. Tsukuba.
Tsukuba Express Line
45min
JR Yamanote
Line

Ueno Sta.
Akihabara Sta.

Shinjuku
Sta.

Tsukuba Center(Tsukuba Station)

JR Joban Line60min

As a place that presents the rich sensitivity,
intellect, and creativity cultivated at the University of Tsukuba, the Art Space displays
works nationally and internationally famous aswell as creations of artists from Ibaraki Prefecture.

Hitachino- Arakawaoki
Ushiku Sta. Sta.

Tokyo Sta.
65min

Tsuchiura Sta.

The Gallery displays the university’ s historical materials
and works of art.
Together with the University of Tsukuba 30th Anniversary Hall,
it aims to spread information to the large society
and to provide a place for cultural exchanges.
Open: 9:00-17:00

Hamamatsu-cho Sta.
HanedaAirportTsukuba
Daigaku
ChuoBus Stop

100min120minNarita International Airport(Closed: on Sundays and around the New Year)http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/public/institution/gallery.html
Tel. 029-853-7959
1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577

Invitation to the University of Tsukuba
The University of Tsukuba was established inOctober 1973, due to the relocation of its
antecedent, the Tokyo University of Education,
to the Tsukuba area. The University has
featured “Openness” with “New Systems forEducation and Research” under a “New University Administration” in its role of core institution in Tsukuba Science City.
Our university, which has been playing a leading role in university reform, is proud to have along and distinguished history since its ancestor, theNormal School, founded in 1872.
The exhibition halls of the University provide apermanent display of a wide range of representative materials, in the aim to give the large society
an opportunity to become familiar with theuniversity’ s long history and tradition.

P.E. and Sport Exhibition

Dr. Yutaka Akino Memorial
Exhibition

Following the long tradition of its predecessors,
the University of Tsukuba has nurtured athletes
in many fields. The exhibition displays the Japanese participation at the Olympic Games, starting with the first participants from Japan, themost awarded Japanese Olympic medalist andother gold medalists, etc. Furthermore, the exhibition also presents many great achievements ofour university’ s athletes in many disciplines.

Dr. Yutaka Akino was gunned down during his service
as a Civil Affairs Officer in the United Nations
Mission of Observers in Tajikistan (UNMOT) in
1998. He explored every nook and cranny of thepost-Cold War Eurasian Continent, finding the gap
and the nexus of the real world and academic world.
He extensively made policy proposals as a scholar ofinternational politics in Japan and abroad with an aim
to construct stability of the region. Dr. Akino’ s
personality based on sportsmanship and passion for
educating the next generations have continued toencourage and affect young people.

Tomonaga Memorial RoomShirakawa Memorial Room

Dr. Sin-itiro Tomonaga Memorial Exhibition

Dr. Hideki Shirakawa Memorial Exhibition

Dr. Sin-itiro Tomonaga (1906 – 1979) is anelementary particle physicist, who developed thesuper-many-time theory and the renormalization theory during World War II and shortly
thereafter when he was at the Tokyo Bunrika
University and the Tokyo University of Education, both the predecessors of the University ofTsukuba. The theories enabled to incorporate
relativity with quantum mechanics, and to treat
the divergences that are inherent in quantum
field theory. They led to the successful construction of quantum electrodynamics, the fundamental theory of the interaction between theelectron and the photon. Dr. Tomonaga received
the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for the work,
together with Drs. Julian Schwinger and Richard P. Feynman. His work also includes themeson theory, the collective motion of quantum
mechanical many-body systems, and the theoryof the magnetron and ultra-short wave circuits.
He also served as President of the Tokyo University of Education (1956 – 1962), and Directorof the Institute for Optical Research (1963 –1969). The Room was established in 1983 andsince has served for archival purposes, anddisplays the commemorative material donatedby his family and others.

Dr. Hideki Shirakawa was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Chemistry in 2000, for the discovery
and development of conductive polymers. Dr.
Shirakawa, who had been taking a deep interestin natural phenomena since his childhood, choseto pursue research in the field of polymer chemistry, and had the ability to transform a phenomenon accidentally noticed into an epoch-making
discovery. His discovery of conducting polymer
arose from a combination of serendipity and theability to seize it.

Dr. Leo Esaki Memorial Exhibition
Dr. Leo Esaki was awarded theNobel Prize in Physics in 1973, for
his experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors. Asan enterprise researcher in Japanand then in the United States, Dr.
Esaki created the new scientific fieldof semiconductor physics, which has
become the basis of present-day electronics. After his return from theUnited States in 1992, Dr. Esaki
activated as President of the University of Tsukuba for 6 years, andgreatly contributed to the development of the university into a neworganization for a new age.

Laboratory Schools Exhibition
The University of Tsukuba has 11laboratory schools. Our university
is proud to be the only institution
in Japan to have such a variety oflaboratory schools, from normal
elementary, junior high and highschools to schools for special support
education. Each school is a leader
in the Japanese world of education
as they continuously cultivate
global human resources.