紀要No.16 後々田寿徳

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大阪博物場ー「楽園」の盛衰
Osaka Museums Park -Vicissitude of a “Paradise”

後々田寿徳
GOGOTA Hisanori

Osaka Museums Park was established in 1875 and became in the middle
of the Meiji era a museum complex to which the museum, the merchandise
sample and commercial showroom, the botanical garden and the zoo, etc. were
attached. The comprehensive function was gradually lost since the latter term
of the Meiji era. The turning point might be an installation of the “Osaka
Commercial Museum” in 1890. As a result, Osaka Museums Park developed
its entertaining and educational characteristic. On the other hand, it was
excluded from the part of the heavy industry and the international trade
promotion at the latter term of the Meiji era.
Although Osaka Museums Park gradually became the remains of former
times, it was continued to be loved by many citizens in the end of the Meiji era
as a traditional and conservative place of amusement since the early modern
age.
Osaka Museums Park sees its end in social functioning because of the
establishment of the “Osaka Municipal Museum” and the “Osaka Municipal
Zoo” in 1915 and of the opening of the new “Osaka Commercial Museum” in
1917. The existence of the Osaka Museums Park was gradually passed into
oblivion.
A part of the Osaka Museums Park was left as a place to relax by ardent
fans, but it was eliminated in the early part of the Showa era. It seems that
the collection kept in four storages, was almost reduced to dust by Great
Osaka Air Raids in 1945.
Osaka Museums Park left behind by the modernization, had nothing to
do with national policy like “encouragement of new industry” or “wealth and
military strength” and became “paradise” open to citizens, being different from
capitalistic and commercial entertainment. The period of end to the Osaka
Museums Park marks an age from national mobilization to militarism through
the Showa Depression.