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Samurai Museum Berlin
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Samurai Museum Berlin is an art museum in Berlin, Germany.
About Samurai Museum Berlin
The Samurai Museum Berlin is a private museum of artifacts and art objects of the Japanese samurai class, from the private collection of the builder Peter Janssen. It opened in 2022 and is located in the Mitte district of Berlin, Germany.
The only Samurai museum in Europe displays over 900 exhibits on 1500 square meters of exhibition space. The entire collection of the museum includes more than 4000 objects. Among them are about 40 complete suits of armor, 200 helmets, 150 masks, 160 swords, and numerous other evidences of samurai culture dating back nearly a millennium.
The oldest pieces in the collection date back to the Kofun period (300-538 AD). The majority of the objects date from the late Middle Ages and the early modern period (15th-18th centuries).
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