Kyoto National Museum

The Kyoto National Museum (京都国立博物館 Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan) is one of the major art museums in Japan. Located in Kyoto’s Higashiyama ward, the museum focuses on pre-modern Japanese and Asian art.

The Kyoto National Museum, then the Imperial Museum of Kyoto, was proposed, along with the Imperial Museum of Tokyo (Tokyo National Museum) and the Imperial Museum of Nara (Nara National Museum), in 1889, and construction on the museum finished in October, 1895. The museum was opened in 1897. The museum went through a series of name changes, in 1900 changing its name to the Imperial Household Museum of Kyoto, and once more in 1924 to the Imperial Gift Museum of Kyoto. The current name, the Kyoto National Museum, was decided upon in 1952.

京都国立博物館 / Japanexperterna.se

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Name : Kyoto National Museum

Category : Culture/History

Website : http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/index_top.html

TEL : 075-525-2473

Area : Kyoto (Kansai)

Address : 527 Chaya-cho Higashiyama-ku Kyoto-shi 605-0931
〒605-0931 京都府京都市東山区茶屋町527
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