Kyoto Prefectural Yamashiro Regional Museum

Kyoto Prefectural Yamashiro Regional Museum
Kyoto Prefectural Yamashiro Regional Museum is located in Kyoto Prefecture
Kyoto Prefectural Yamashiro Regional Museum
Location of Kyoto Prefectural Yamashiro Regional Museum
Kyoto Prefectural Yamashiro Regional Museum is located in Japan
Kyoto Prefectural Yamashiro Regional Museum
Kyoto Prefectural Yamashiro Regional Museum (Japan)
Established1982
LocationSenryoiwa, Kamikoma, Yamashiro district Kizugawa City, Kyoto Prefecture
Coordinates34°45′08″N 135°50′02″E / 34.752243°N 135.833888°E / 34.752243; 135.833888
Typeregional museum
Websitehttps://www.kyoto-be.ne.jp/yamasiro-m/

Kyoto Prefectural Yamashiro Regional Museum (京都府立山城郷土資料館) is a regional museum located in Yamashiro District of Kizugawa, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Its collections and exhibits cover archeological ruins as well as historical artifacts from south Yamashiro district of Kyoto Prefecture.[1][2]

Exhibition

Interior view of the Museum. Showing stone coffin
Interior view of the Museum. Showing Dotaku, bronze bells

Permanent Exhibition

Exhibits archeological ruins and historical artifacts from south Yamashiro districts. Major exhibitions are Kesadasukimon Dōtaku (ritual bronze bell with crossed band design), roofing tile from Imperial Audience Hall of Kuni-kyō, cray face, statue of Gozo Tenno, Standing Statue of Amida Nyorai, white and black face masks.

Special Exhibition

2018

  • Akira Akitsuki, A painter walked with Buddha
  • Opening of rail road and modern development of South Yamashiro area
  • Excavated history of Kyoto, 2018
  • Whispers of letters - Writings on excavated articles
  • Tools for daily life - now and then

Activities

Visitor Participation

Children activity "Let's make a Dotaku-shaped Lampshade", "Let's make bronze mirror", "Let's make Wadōkaichin, Bronze Coin".

Seminars

Various seminars on history in the area. Example includes "Walking through history - walking along Daibutsu Tetsudo".

Lectures

Lectures held be museum staffs or invited lecturers on topic of history.

Access

About a 20–25 minute walk from Kamikoma Station of JR Nara Line.

Open hour and date

Open 9:00 - 16:30.

Closed on Monday (except on holidays, in which case it is closed on Tuesday) and at the end and beginning of the year.

References

  1. ^ From Official Webpage
  2. ^ Museum Hand-out