The National Hansen's
Disease Museum
The
National
Hansen's
Disease
Museum
The National Hansen's Disease Museum
The National Hansen's Disease Museum disseminates correct knowledge about the Issues related to leprosy
The purpose is to eliminate prejudice and discrimination through enlightenment and to restore the honor of Leprosy patients and former patients
The National Hansen's Disease Museum disseminates correct knowledge about the Issues related to leprosy
The purpose is to eliminate prejudice and discrimination through enlightenment and to restore the honor of Leprosy patients and former patients
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ABOUT The
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The National Hansen's Disease Museum
Issues related to leprosy, medical knowledge, while coordinating with each sanatorium
History of treatment, history Leprosy patients and former patients and their families, experience of their hardships
We provide information about this to society and widely convey our understanding of the Issues related to leprosy
Based on this, we provide a place where visitors can think about issues such as human rights.
Hansen's
Disease
ABOUT HANSEN'S DISEASE
What is Hansen's Disease?
Infection does not always cause the onset of the disease, and the disease itself is rare nowadays.
Even if there is an onset of disease, the symptoms do not progress rapidly. The initial symptoms are skin rash and sensory paralysis.
In the days when there was no cure, the disease could cause deformities and leave severe sequelae even if healed.
Today, effective therapeutic medicines have been developed, and early detection and treatment can cure the disease without leaving any sequelae.
MOVIE
Learn about Hansen's Disease through videos
This is a video created by The National Hansen's Disease Museum to raise awareness about Issues related to leprosy. The medical characteristics of Hansen's Disease and the history of Issues related to leprosy are explained along with a story by Kimie Yamauchi, a resident Tama Zenshoen. (Produced in 2021)
The National Hansen's Disease Museum YouTube Channel
ACCESS
Facility information
- location4-1-13, Aoba-cho, Higashimurayama-shi, Tokyo 189-0002 GOOGLE MAP Open with
- ContactTEL: 042-396-2909 / FAX: 042-396-2981
- Opening hours9:30 am to 4:30 pm (admission is until 4:00 pm)
- Freeadmission
- ClosedMondays and the day after "National Holidays".
However, it is open if Monday is a national holiday. Year-end and New Year holidays. Day to organize the hall. -
traffic guide
Public transport- Seibu Bus from Kiyose Station South Exit on Seibu Ikebukuro Line
Hansen's Disease Museum bound for Kumegawa Station North Exit" (time required: about 10 minutes) - Seibu Bus from the north exit of Kumegawa Station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line
Hansen's Disease Museum bound for Kiyose Station South Exit" (time required: about 20 minutes) - Seibu Bus from Shin-Akitsu Station on the JR Musashino Line
Zenshoen-mae bound for Kumegawa Station North Exit" and walk (about 20 minutes) - Walk from "Shin-Akitsu Station" on the JR Musashino Line or "Akitsu Station" on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line (about 20 minutes)
- Seibu Bus from Kiyose Station South Exit on Seibu Ikebukuro Line
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traffic guide
Automobile- About 7km (about 21 minutes) from the Shin-Oume Kaido "Kitahara" intersection
- About 4km (about 13 minutes) from the intersection of Shin-Oume Kaido "Sakaecho 1-chome"
- About 9km (about 30 minutes) from Tokorozawa IC on the Kan-Etsu Expressway
* Since the number of parking lots is limited, please use public transportation as much as possible.
RECENTLY
New arrival notification
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October 22, 2024
Notice
You can now search the tables of contents of newspaper and magazine articles Hansen's Disease from 1878 to August 31, 2024.
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October 10, 2024
Important Notices
Regarding photography inside the museum
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October 1, 2024
Notice
"Museum news No. 124" has been published.
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August 23, 2024
Important Notices
The museum talk scheduled for Saturday, August 31st, "Women of Leprosy sanatorium Resisted, Lived, and Singed - Reading 'Pleading Poems'" has been cancelled due to the lecturer's sudden illness.
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June 26, 2024
Important Notices
Notice of compensation payment system from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare
DATABASE
Database
- The National Hansen's Disease Museum
Library search system - Resident Association of Leprosy Sanatoria and
"Institutional magazine" table of contents search system published by the Blind Association - The National Hansen's Disease Museum
Activity record database - Hansen's Disease Newspaper Magazine Article Table of Contents
Search system - Edited by Nagashima-Aiseien
"Rai Bibliography Society Edition"
(Published in 1957)
Literature search system in the garden - Classroom Practice Archives on Leprosy Issues