The Seto Inland Sea has played an important role in cultural exchange and has been a main artery for marine transports since the old days. Blessed with a warm climate and a relatively small amount of precipitation, the inland sea has been a foundation for the livelihood of the regional people and has shaped a unique and wonderful way of life. Various cultural heritages from this region tell many things about the past. Seto Inland Sea Folk History Museum was built in 1973, in order to collect and maintain important materials, to carry out general research, and to make the results publicly accessible. Among the museum’s collection, 5,656 pieces of fishing tools and shipbuilding tools and 310 pieces of transportation tools are designated as national important tangible folk cultural properties．

The Seto Inland Sea Historical Folk Museum (瀬戸内海歴史民俗資料館) is a museum of humanities in the Gododenda Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture.

It is a facility that presents about 130,000 pieces of information on the Seto Inland Sea including 2 important tangible folk cultural properties of the country · about 5700 points and exhibits the history and culture of the Seto Inland Sea area.
The building was awarded the Japan Architectural Institute Award, etc. in 1974, one hundred public buildings, Selection of DOCOMOMO JAPAN Excellent work of contemporary architecture chosen also for the modern movement in Japan.
On April 1, 2007, it is integrated with the Kagawa Prefectural Museum of History (present Kagawa Prefectural Museum), and it will be the location of the same building.

First exhibition room
1F – Exhibit materials such as real net ship used for sea bunko fishing, valet ship, wagon ship, wooden ship model such as Kaydenuma, fishing gear tools, ship figure, shipboard tool etc
Medium 2F – Exhibit folk materials on the island of Seto Inland Sea and rain pools
2nd Exhibition Room – Exhibit with shipwrecked shipyards in dioramas
Third exhibition room – Exhibit materials of early modern valet ship and ship
Fourth Exhibition Room – Restoration of modern transport ship, document on cargo ship and deck of morning ship exhibited
Fifth Exhibition Room – Exhibit data on oar, paddle and rudder of wooden ship and salt tool (beach tool)
Sixth Exhibition Room – Exhibit ancient salt pottery in Setouchi district
Seventh Exhibition Room – Exhibit ancient to medieval archaeological relics including Sueboshi’s Suebu and Bizengrass
Eighth Exhibition Room – Exhibit the actual material by showing the history of fishing methods and tools from ancient times to the present

Opening hours – 9: 00 ~ 17: 00 (Admission is until 16:30)
Closed Monday – Monday (in principle, if Monday is a holiday the next day), Year-end and New Year (December 29 – January 3)
Admission fee – free. (General individuals were 220 yen, etc. but due to reorganization, revised from April 1, 2007)