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The Nara National Museum held its first exhibition in 1895. As prehistory to the opening, there was a Nara exhibition. In 1874, Nara exhibition company of semi-governmental management was established by the then Nara governor Fujii Chihiro. The museum was renamed the Imperial Household Museum of Nara. It has been known by its present name since ...
The IAI National Museum had been created by merging the Tokyo National Museum, the Kyoto National Museum, the Nara National Museum in 2001; and the Kyushu National Museum had been incorporated into the organization in 2005. [4] [5]
Since its opening in 1895, the Nara National Museum (NNM) has been involved in collecting and preserving cultural properties, especially Buddhist arts in cooperation with the shrines and temples of greater Nara. NNM projects plans for enhancing its routine activities and its on-going focus on preservation of cultural properties.
In 1940, the Yamato Provincial Museum (大和国史館) opened and in 1949 this was renamed the Yamato History Museum (大和歴史館). With the Museum Act (博物館法) of 1951, it gained the status of a museum-equivalent facility. Its formal registration as a museum proper was in 1968, a year after the move to a new building.
Mannen Tsūhō at the Nara National Museum. According to the Shoku Nihongi, Mannen Tsūhō were issued in 760 (Tenpyō-hōji 4) through an Imperial edict along with the silver Taihei Genpō and the gold Kaiki Shoho. This edict stipulates that 10 Mannen Tsūhō (new copper coins) could be exchanged for 1 silver Taihei Genpo coin, and that 10 ...
Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City 1,025 glass plates 34°40′32″N 135°50′44″E / 34.67558836°N 135.84543872°E / 34.67558836; 135.84543872 ( Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara
Although these collections are not open to the public, selections are shown at Nara National Museum once a year in autumn. The objects and treasures that have been stored in the Shōsō-in can be divided into the following categories. [12] Buddhist objects Butsugu (仏具) Clothing and accessories Fukushoku (服飾) Furniture Chōdo Hin (調度品)
Nara Prefectural Museum of Folklore (奈良県立民俗博物館, Nara Kenritsu Minzoku Hakubutsukan) opened in Yamatokōriyama, Nara Prefecture, Japan, in 1974.Located at the foot of the Yata Hills (矢田丘陵) within the 26.6 hectare Yamato Folk Park (大和民俗公園), the museum collects, preserves, and displays artefacts relating to everyday life in Nara Prefecture from the Edo period ...