Kyoto Archaeological Museum
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| place | Kyoto , Japan |
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Archaeological Museum
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| opening | November 1979 |
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Kyōto-shi Maizō Bunkazai Kenkyūjo
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The Kyōto Archaeological Museum ( Japanese 京 都市 考古 資料 館 , Kyōto-shi Kōko Shiryōkan , English Kyoto City Archaeological Museum ) is a museum and an archaeological collection in Kamigyō-ku , in Kyoto , Japan .
The museum is run by a legal foundation established in 1976, the "Research Institute for Underground Cultural Assets of the City of Kyoto" ( 京 都市 埋 蔵 文化 財 研究所 , Kyōto-shi Maizō Bunkazai Kenkyūjo , English Kyōto City Archaeological Research Institute ). The museum itself was opened three years later, in 1979 in Imadegawa, Kyoto. The foundation and museum have the mandate to carry out excavations in and around Kyoto, to research and preserve the finds and to make them accessible to the public through exhibitions.
In addition, the museum has chronologically as well as thematically arranged exhibition rooms on three floors, including an exhibition room in which you can touch the exhibits.
Exhibition focus
- the Rajōmon Gate
- Change of earthenware in the Heian period
- Replicas of dwellings from the early Jōmon period
- Ceramics of non-Japanese origin excavated in Kyoto (China, Persia)
Web links
- 資料 館 の な り た ち . 京 都市 考古 資料 館, 2011,Retrieved August 30, 2013(Japanese, Museum Official Website).
- 財 団 法人 京 都市 埋 蔵 文化 財 研究所 要 覧 . 財 団 法人 京 都市 埋 蔵 文化 財 研究所, 2011,accessed August 30, 2013(Japanese, Official Website of the Archaeological Research Institute).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 京 都市 考古 資料 館 条例 . Kyoto City, July 26, 1979, retrieved August 30, 2013 (Japanese, Bylaws of the Archaeological Museum §1).
Coordinates: 35 ° 1 ′ 47.7 " N , 135 ° 44 ′ 58.7" E