Okayama Orient Museum

Okayama Orient Museum

岡山市立オリエント美術館
Okayama Orient Museum
Established	1979
Location	9-31 Tenjin-chō, Kita-ku, Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Coordinates	34°39′59″N 133°55′48″E
Owner	Okayama City
Website	www.city.okayama.jp/orientmuseum

Okayama Orient Museum (岡山市立オリエント美術館, Okayama Shiritsu Oriento Bijutsukan) is a museum of Ancient Near Eastern, Roman provincial, Byzantine, Sassanian, and Islamic Art in Kita-ku, Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. As of 2007 there were some 4,852 items, including a winged Assyrian relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud, Mesopotamia, acquired to mark the institution's 25th anniversary.[1]

Winged Assyrian relief from the 9th century BCE

The museum was founded to house the collection of Shinjiro Yasuhiro, who acquired thousands of objects with the advice of academics from the University of Tokyo.[2]

The museum building has two floors of exhibition galleries to showcase the collection. It was constructed in 1979 by the city of Okayama from a prize-winning design by Okada Architect & Associates.[3]

See also

• Orient
• Antiquities trade
• Miho Museum
• Okayama Station

References

1. "Museum Information" (in Japanese). Okayama City. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
2. "With Oriental Museum of Art" (in Japanese). Okayama City. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
3. 受賞歴 1981 岡山市オリエント美術館 [Awards 1981 Okayama Orient Museum] (in Japanese). Okada Architect & Associates. Retrieved 8 March 2012.

External links

• Homepage