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Previous Special Exhibitions and Events held at the Lake Biwa Museum


Special Exhibition
"We Dig Up Dreams from the Ground"
20 March - 9 May 2010
Special Exhibition
"Evolutionary Memory of Bones - 500 million years of the past hidden within you"
18 July - 23 November 2009
Special Aquarium Exhibition
"The Route to Backbones - Fish Evolution Seen in their Bones"
18 July - 6 September 2009
Special Exhibition
"100 Years After the Anegawa Earthquake"
25 April - 7 June 2009
Special Exhibition
"Water Birds of Lake Biwa - illustrated by Yosuke Imamori"
13 December 2008 - 15 February 2009
Special Exhibition
"Lake Biwa Forever! Father and Son look at the Lake Country"
20 September - 16 November 2008
Special Exhibition
"Learning with Fabre. A Century after Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques""
29 April - 31 August 2008
Special Exhibition
"The Museums of Ohmi"
1 March 2008 - 13 April 2008
Special Exhibition
"A Message from the Lake Fish"
11 December 2007 - 17 February 2008
Aquarium Special Exhibition
"The Lake Fish Now .... And the Future!"
11 December 2007 - 17 February 2008
Special Exhibition
"The Story of Carps in the Lake Biwa Region - Illustrating People's Ties to Lakes in East Asia"
14 July - 25 November 2007
Special Exhibition
"Mineral and Fossil Exhibition: A Dream is Dug in the Ground of Lake Country"
20 March - 6 May 2007
13th Special Exhibition
"The carabid ground beetles, walking jewels|Marvelous discoveries about these flightless insects|"
(Aruku Hoseki Osamusi)
16 July - 27 November 2005
12th Special Exhibition
"The Wonderful World of Plants"
(Nobiru Hiraku Hirogaru-Syokubutu ga ugoku toki)
17 July - 23 November 2004
14th Aquarium Special Exhibition
(Syokubutu no aru kurashi)
13 July - 30 September 2004
11th Special Exhibition
"ALIEN SPECIES:Their Biology,Impact and Control"
(Gairai seibutu>
19 July - 24 November 2003
13th Aquarium Special Exhibition
"Lake Biwa - Yodo River - Osaka Bay The Water's Journey: Endangered Fishes and Molluscs in Lake Biwa"
(Biwa-ko, Yodo-gawa, Osaka-wan mizu no tabi: Biwa-ko de sukunaku natta sakana to kai)
8 March - 6 April 2003
10th Special Exhibition
"Medieval Village Life in Oumi"
(Chusei no Mura Tanken)
20 July - 24 November 2002
12th Aquarium Special Exhibition
"Mystery of Fish Schools"
(Sakana no Mure Tanken)
13 July - 23 September 2002
11th Aquarium Special Exhibition
"Turtles of Shiga"
(Shiga no Kame tachi)
21 March - 19 May 2002
9th Special Exhibition
"Catfish: Fish that link Lake Biwa and Paddy Fields"
(Namazu: Sakana ga musubu Biwa-ko to tanbo)
20 July - 25 November 2001
10th Aquarium Special Exhibition
"Explore the mysterious world of catfishes"
(Omoshiro namazu dai-hakken)
20 July - 30 September 2001
9th Aquarium Special Exhibition
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(Biwa-ko to tairiku wo musubu sakana tachi)
21 October 2000 - 28 January 2001
8th Aquarium Special Exhibition
"Fishes for the table: Lake Kasumigaura now"
(Shokutaku ni noboru mizuumi no sakana)
15 July - 3 September 2000
8th Special Exhibition
"Commercial fishes of Lake Biwa"
(Umi no gyo ryou shoku)
15 July - 23 November 2000
7th Aquarium Special Exhibition
(Tameike no ikimono tachi)
*: Freshwater creatures in the reservoir
19 October - 5 December 1999
6th Aquarium Special Exhibition
"Life of urban fishes"
(Tokai ni kurasu sakana tachi)
20 July - 26 September 1999
7th Special Exhibition
"Boats on the lake"
(Umi no fune)
20 July - 23 November 1999
6th Special Exhibition
"Extinction and Evolution: Mammal fossils in East Asia"
(Zetsumetsu to shinka)
15 January - 11 April 1999
5th Aquarium Special Exhibition
(Minami no shima no sakana tachi)
*: Fishes of southern islands: freshwater fishes of the Ryukyu islands
18 September - 30 August 1998
5th Special Exhibition
"Shiga, a treasure-house of Dragonflies"
(Oumi wa tonbo no houko)
18 July - 23 September 1998
4th Aquarium Special Exhibition
(Hokkaido no tansuigyo)
*: Freshwater fishes of the Hokkaido
2 November 1997 - 5 February 1998
4th Special Exhibition
"Album of Lake Biwa from your memory and mine"
(Watashi to anata no Biwa-ko arubamu)
10 October 1997 - 1 February 1998
3rd Aquarium Special Exhibition
"The world of Ancient Lakes"
(Kodaiko no sekai)
15 June - 31 August 1997
3rd Special Exhibition
"The world of Ancient Lakes"
(Kodaiko no sekai)
15 June - 31 August 1997
2nd Aquarium Special Exhibition
(Burajiru no tansui-gyo)
*:Freshwater fishes in Brazil
11 March - 20 April 1997
2nd Special Exhibition
(Hakubutsu-kan ga dekirumade)
*:
8 March - 27 April 1997
1st Aquarium Special Exhibition
(Satoyama no suisei seibutsu)
*: creatures of the satoyama
20 October 1996 - 19 January 1997
1st Special Exhibition
"Satoyama"
(Satoyama)
20 October 1996 - 19 January 1997
(): title for japanese
*: translation for English from Japanese title




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