The Nagoya City Museum is a museum

Museum

A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...

 of the city of Nagoya in central Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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History

The museum of history was established in 1977 (Showa 52).

Archaeological materials, fine art, crafts, documents, books and folk materials including samurai armor and weaponry are exhibited in it.

In addition to the permanent exhibition of the history of the Owari Domain starting from the Palaeolithic period, special exhibitions and thematic exhibitions take place around every five to seven years, such as the one on Gandhara

Gandhara

Gandhāra , is the name of an ancient kingdom , located in northern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. Gandhara was located mainly in the vale of Peshawar, the Potohar plateau and on the Kabul River...

 in 2003.

The nearest stop by subway is Sakurayama Station on the Sakura-dōri Line

Sakura-dori Line

The is a subway line, part of the system in Nagoya, Japan. It runs from Nakamura Kuyakusho, Nakamura Ward to , Midori Ward, all within Nagoya. The Sakura-dōri Line's color on maps is red. In 2004, the city started to change all station signs. The new signs have a station name followed by a single...

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