Art Museum
Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds
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Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds is an art museum in Gyōda-shi, Japan.
About Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds
The Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds (埼玉県立さきたま史跡の博物館, Saitama Kenritsu Sakitama Shiseki no Hakubutsukan) is a museum in Gyōda, Saitama, Japan. The building is inside of Sakitama Kofun Park. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.
The museum was originally established as Sakitama Museum (さきたま資料館) in 1969 as part of the construction of Sakitama Fudoki Hills (さきたま風土記の丘), an archeological preserve encompassing the Sakitama Kofun Cluster. In 2006, Saitama Prefecture renamed the museum as Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds and made its goals the research, collection, preservation of the site's archeological data as well as educating the site's cultural and historical value to its visitors.
Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds by the numbers
- Founded
- 1969
Plan your visit
Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds
- Website
- sakitama-muse.spec.ed.jp
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