Category Archives: East Asia

Hong Kong Heritage Museum, China

The Hong Kong Heritage Museum, opened in December 2000, is under the management of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government. Hong Kong Heritage Museum presents a unique mix of history, art and culture in a great variety of programmes that cater for the wide-ranging…

Hong Kong Heritage Museum, China

Ho Family Garden, Yangzhou, China

Ho Family Garden (何园) also known as Jixiao Villa(寄啸山庄) is the last but best work among the private gardens in Yangzhou. It is the National Cultural Relic Protection Unit and National AAAA class View Area. Along with Yihe Garden in Beijing and Humble Administrator’s Garden in Suzhou, it is among…

Ho Family Garden, Yangzhou, China

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima-shi, Japan

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (広島平和記念資料館) is a museum located in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, in central Hiroshima, Japan, dedicated to documenting the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in World War II. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum collects and displays belongings left by the Victims, Photos, and other materials that convey the…

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima-shi, Japan

Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments, Hamamatsu-shi, Japan

The Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments (浜松市楽器博物館) is the first municipal museum of musical instruments in Japan. It was established as part of the Hamamatsu City“Creation of a City of Music” beginning in 1981, and is registered museum facility under the law of museums. The mission of the museum is…

Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments, Hamamatsu-shi, Japan

Hamamatsu City Fuku Akino Art Museum, Japan

Akino Fuku Museum (浜松市秋野不矩美術館) looks out on Tenryu Futamata Town from its green hilltop surroundings．The Museum opened officially in April, 1998 and is playing an important roll in fulfilling the goal of making Tenryu “a city fragrant with the aroma of culture”. The building is two stories high and was…

Hamamatsu City Fuku Akino Art Museum, Japan

Iwami Art Museum, Masuda-shi, Japan

Iwami Art Museum (島根県立石見美術館) opened in Masuda, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, in 2005. Together with Iwami Arts Theatre (島根県立いわみ芸術劇場) it forms part of the Shimane Arts Centre (島根県芸術文化センター), also known as Grand Toit (グラントワ), the French for “large roof”. The collection includes works by Kanō Shōei (狩野松栄), Unkoku Tōgan, Kuroda Seiki,…

Iwami Art Museum, Masuda-shi, Japan

Jinsha Site Museum, Chengdu Shi, China

Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum is an archaeological site museum in the northwest of Chengdu, which is established on the original ruins for the protection, study, and exhibition of Jinsha Site and ancient Shu Civilization. It covers an area of 300,000 square meters including the Relic Hall, the Exhibition Hall, Cultural…

Jinsha Site Museum, Chengdu Shi, China

Jeongok Prehistory Museum, Yeoncheon, South Korea

Jeongok Prehistory Museum (전곡선사박물관) was built at Jeongok, a prehistoric relic site where an Acheulean hand axe was discovered for the first time in East Asia. The building of the museum, which was named as “The door to the prehistoric age”, will play a central role for the cultural tourism…

Jeongok Prehistory Museum, Yeoncheon, South Korea

Kyoto Prefectural Domoto-Insho Museum of Fine Arts, Kyōto-shi, Japan

Kyoto Prefectural Domoto-Insho Museum of Fine Arts (京都府立堂本印象美術館), The museum is located in the northwestern Kyoto, near Kinugasa hill　and the area between Kinugasa and Omuro with rich environment of nature and history. Many temples and shrines were built along this road, called “Kinukake-no-michi”,　including the Kinkakuji temple and the Ninnaji…

Kyoto Prefectural Domoto-Insho Museum of Fine Arts, Kyōto-shi, Japan

Kyoto Museum of Traditional Crafts, Kyoto, Japan

Kyoto Museum of Traditional Crafts (京都伝統産業ふれあい館), Approximately 500 items of 74 items of traditional crafts in Kyoto are exhibited. We are exhibiting at any time according to the four seasons, and you can see a variety of traditional craft items. Displaying 77 sorts of traditional handicrafts, the permanent exhibition systematically…

Kyoto Museum of Traditional Crafts, Kyoto, Japan

Korean Stone Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea

Korean Stone Art Museum was opened in Seongbuk-dong, a beautiful district surrounded by Bugaksan Mountain and the Seoul City Wall to introduce the aesthetic beauty and significant cultural values of old Korean stone sculptures. The museum, consisting of six exhibition halls including an outdoor exhibition garden, is a place where…

Korean Stone Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea

Kobe City Museum, Kōbe-shi, Japan

Kobe City Museum (神戸市立博物館) opened in Kobe, Japan in 1982. It is one of Japan’s many museums which are supported by a municipality. Kobe municipal Namba art museum and Kobe municipal archaeological museum were integrated and opened in 1982 (Showa 57). And – “international cultural exchange and contact of the…

Kobe City Museum, Kōbe-shi, Japan

Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China

The Long Museum (Chinese: 龙美术馆西岸馆) is a private art museum in Shanghai, China, founded by Liu Yiqian and his wife Wang Wei. The museum has two locations in Shanghai: the Long Museum Pudong and Long Museum West Bund. Located in Shanghai, the Dragon Art Museum is currently in Pudong and…

Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China

Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds, Gyōda-shi, Japan

The Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds (埼玉県立さきたま史跡の博物館) is a museum in Gyōda, Saitama, Japan. The building is inside of Sakitama Kofun Park. The Saitama Prefectural Sakitama Historic Site Museum (Saitama Commuter Sakitama Shikibu Tsukuba Tsukuba) has maintained the Saitama Tumulus Group (national historic site) consisting of…

Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds, Gyōda-shi, Japan

Museum of Silhak, Namyangju-si, South Korea

The Museum of Silhak (실학박물관) is an Eco-Museum dedicated to establishing Gyeonggi-do’s identity by collecting Silhak-related materials, exhibitions, and experience programs on late Joseon’s philosophy on reform and self-reflection. As an educational course, the Cham-Silhak Class is a program designed for students and scheduled to fit the five- school day…

Museum of Silhak, Namyangju-si, South Korea

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