In 2001 the old faculty of medicine building, which was relocated to Koishikawa Botanical Garden in 1969, was opened as a new exhibition space.

In 2013 the exhibition space Intermediatheque (IMT) was opened in the old Central Post Office next to Tokyo Station.

[5] Her father, Crown Prince Akishino, has also worked at the museum and is an honorary fellow.

The Index Herbariorum code assigned to this herbarium is TI, which is used when citing specimens.

Some of the mechanical displays now shown at Intermediatheque come e.g. from the Imperial College of Engineering which was incorporated into the new University of Tokyo.