Kobe City Museum
The Kōbe-shiritsu Hakubutsukan opened in Kobe, Japan in 1982. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a municipality. • Illustration — Kobe City Museum, formerly the Kobe branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank (1935) • Illustration — Equestrian kings of Europe; Namban byōbu that forms part of the museum collection The museum resulted from the merger of the Municipal Archaeological Art Museum and Municipal Namban Art Museum. The museum is housed in a neoclassical building built in 1935: the former Kobe branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank.
Also recorded as Kobe Namban collection
Kobe City Museum
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- 1982
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The collection of nearly thirty-nine thousand items comprises archaeological artifacts, works of art, old maps, and historical documents and artifacts relating to Kobe. It includes an important collection of Nanban art (the former Hajime Ikenaga Collection), as well as a set of dōtaku and other items of the Yayoi period from excavations at Sakuragaoka that have been designated a National Treasure.
It is associated with Japan. The record gives 1982 as its date of establishment or first appearance.
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Kobe City Museum is an organisation recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (established 1982). The founding of Kobe City Museum is recorded in 1982; the seat is recorded as Kobe.
Kobe City Museum in Kobe, Hyogo prefecture, Japan
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