page_title: Philipp Franz von Siebold
section_title: Siebold museums
hierarchical_section_title: Philipp Franz von Siebold / Siebold museums
caption_attribution_description: English: Siebold Memorial Museum, Nagasaki, Japan 日本語: シーボルト記念館、長崎市
context_page_description: Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold was a German physician, botanist, and traveler. He achieved prominence by his studies of Japanese flora and fauna and the introduction of Western medicine in Japan. He was the father of the first female Japanese doctor, Kusumoto Ine.
context_section_description: Although he was disillusioned by what he perceived as a lack of appreciation for Japan and his contributions to its understanding, a testimony of the remarkable character of Siebold is found in museums that honor him.
  Japan Museum SieboldHuis in Leiden, Netherlands, shows highlights from the Leiden Siebold collections in the transformed, refitted, formal, first house of Siebold in Leiden
  Naturalis Biodiversity Center, the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, Netherlands houses the zoological and botanical specimens Siebold collected during his first stay in Japan (1823-1829). These include 200 mammals, 900 birds, 750 fishes, 170 reptiles, over 5,000 invertebrates, 2,000 different species of plants and 12,000 herbarium specimens.
  The National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, Netherlands houses the large collection which Siebold brought together during his first stay in Japan (1823–1829).
  The State Museum of Ethnology in Munich, Germany, houses the collection of Philipp Franz von Siebold from his second voyage to Japan (1859–1862) and a letter of Siebold to King Ludwig I in which he urged the monarch to found a museum of ethnology at Munich. Siebold's grave, in the shape of a Buddhist pagoda, is in the Alter Münchner Südfriedhof (Former Southern Cemetery of Munich). He is also commemorated in the name of a street and a large number of mentions in the Botanical Garden at Munich.
  A Siebold-Museum exists in Würzburg, Germany.
  Siebold-Museum on Brandenstein castle, Schlüchtern, Germany.
  Nagasaki, Japan, pays tribute to Siebold by housing the Siebold Memorial Museum on property adjacent to Siebold's former residence in the Narutaki neighborhood, the first museum dedicated to a non-Japanese in Japan.
  His collections laid the foundation for the ethnographic museums of Munich and Leiden. Alexander von Siebold, his son by his European wife, donated much of the material left behind after Siebold's death in Würzburg to the British Museum in London. The Royal Scientific Academy of St. Petersburg purchased 600 colored plates of the Flora Japonica.
  Another son, Heinrich (or Henry) von Siebold (1852–1908), continued part of his father's research. He is recognized, together with Edward S. Morse, as one of the founders of modern archaeological efforts in Japan.
caption: Siebold Memorial Museum in Nagasaki, Japan
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