Itami City Museum of Insects

The first museum director was Azusa Tanaka, and since April 2012, Kiyoichi Okuyama.

[1] Itami City Insectarium Friends' Association is an organization that helps the experience at the museum to be enjoyable.

Upon presenting a "clover card" issued to preschoolers and elementary and junior high school students residing in municipalities of Itami, Takarazuka, Kawanishi, Sanda, and Inagawa-cho, children could enter the museum free of charge.

[3] In 2006, the museum was one of the organizers of the Singing insects and Gocho event that began in Itami.

[4] In 2011, the museum carried out restoration work on insect specimens held by the Rikuzentakata City Museum in Iwate Prefecture, which were damaged in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

The insectarium seen from the opposite bank of Koyaike Pond. The dome-shaped building is a butterfly greenhouse.