Visit Duration
90 minutes
Kobe City Museum
神戸市立博物館Chuo, Hyogo
Museum
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At a Glance
The Kobe City Museum is a municipal museum of history and art in Kyomachi, Chuo Ward, Kobe. It opened in 1982 through the merger of the Municipal Archaeological Museum and the Municipal Nanban Art Museum. The museum occupies a neoclassical building completed in 1935 by Sakurai Kotarō, originally the Kobe branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank, now a nationally registered Tangible Cultural Property.
Its basic theme is cultural exchange between East and West. The museum holds about 70,000 items, only some of them on display. Highlights include the Sakuragaoka dōtaku bronze bells, a National Treasure, and Important Cultural Properties such as a Nanban folding screen by Kanō Naizen and portraits of Francis Xavier and Oda Nobunaga. The collection also includes one of Japan's largest glassware collections and works by Rodin.
Goshuin within a short walk
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