Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds
Illustration — The museum in 2011 The Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds is a museum in Gyōda, Saitama, Japan. The building is inside of Sakitama Kofun Park. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.
Also recorded as Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds
Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds

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- 1969
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- Japan
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- Sakitama Kofun Park
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Illustration — The museum in 2011 The Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds is a museum in Gyōda, Saitama, Japan. The building is inside of Sakitama Kofun Park. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.
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The museum was originally established as Sakitama Museum in 1969 as part of the construction of Sakitama Fudoki Hills, an archeological preserve encompassing the Sakitama Kofun Cluster. In 2006, Saitama Prefecture renamed the museum as Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds and made its goals the research, collection, preservation of the site's archeological data as well as educating the site's cultural and historical value to its visitors. Nearly 100,000 visitors come to the museum every year to learn about Sakitama Kofun Cluster and its artifacts, including a national treasure, Inariyama Sword. The museum consists of two buildings, Sakitama Shiseki Hall and Shōgunyama Kofun Exhibit Hall, which opened in 1997 and allows visitors to walk inside of the reconstructed stone chamber of the Shōgunyama Kofun.
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