Ueno Hill was turned into one of the nation's first public parks to provide a bit of greenery and to make the park an instrument of the civic improvement and also to show off the achievements of an emerging modern state. It would serve as the site of trade and industrial expositions; it would have a national museum, a library, a university of fine arts, and a zoo. The modernisation of Ueno still continues, but the park is more than the sum of its museums.