Akiyama Math Museum in Santo Domingo

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The Akiyama Math Museum, also known as Museo de las matemáticas Profesor Akiyama, is a math museum in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The museum was promoted and created by the Japanese mathematician and math communicator Jin Akiyama with the support of the Japan Embassy in Santo Domingo and the Education ministry (Ministerio de Educación Superior, Ciencia y Tecnología, MESCYT).

The museum replicates the Math Wonderland museum in Hokkaido, Japan, on which Akiyama is the director. Akiyama and his team replicated and donated 57 exhibition modules for the Santo Domingo math museum.

The museum opened in November 29th, 2017 as a permanent exhibition inside the Telecommunications museum (Museo de las Telecomunicaciones del INDOTEL) in Santo Domingo.

Sources

  • Article by Hiroyuki Makiuchi, ambassador of Japan in Santo Domingo and promoter of the project (in Spanish).
  • Article in El Nuevo Diario (in Spanish).