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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 Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (奈良文化財研究所, Nara Bunkazai Kenkyū-jo), also known by its former name, the Nara Research Institute for Cultural Properties, is one of two research institutes that comprise the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, an independent administrative institution created in 2001.
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.
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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.
Nara Municipal Buried Cultural Properties Research Centre (奈良市埋蔵文化財調査センター, Nara-shi maizō bunkazai chōsa sentā) opened in Nara, Japan, in 1983. It moved to a new building in 1999.
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(kept at Nara National Museum) contains six forms of Kannon (Shō Kannon, Senju Kannon, Batō Kannon, Fukukenjaku Kannon, Byakue Kannon, and Nyoirin Kannon) [47] 30.3 centimetres (11.9 in) by 1,064.3 centimetres (34 ft 11.0 in)