Matsudo Museum, Municipal museum in Sendabori, Matsudo, Japan
Matsudo Museum is a public museum located within the Forest and Park for the 21st Century in the Sendabori district. The space displays exhibits on regional development, important local figures, and daily life through objects and documents from the past.
Matsudo Museum opened in 1993 as part of the project marking the 50th anniversary of Matsudo's city status, built inside the nature-oriented urban park 21st Century Forest and Plaza. Its permanent exhibition traces the area from the Palaeolithic and Jomon periods through the high castle lords of the Takajo clan in the Sengoku era to the rise of public housing estates in the 1950s.
The museum's name for its centrepiece is the full-scale reproduction of a 2DK flat in the Tokiwadaira housing estate of the late 1950s and early 1960s, set up for a family of three. It is furnished with the era's "three sacred treasures" — electric washing machine, refrigerator and black-and-white television — plus a stainless-steel sink, a reception suite, a large record player and encyclopedias. Everyday goods, magazines and period television commercials complete the scene.
The museum is in the 21st Century Forest and Plaza park at 671 Sendabori, Matsudo. It is about 15 minutes on foot from Yahashira and Shin-Yahashira stations, or one minute from the Mor no Hall 21 Park Central Gate bus stop. The museum has only disabled parking, so other visitors use the park car park. It is closed on Mondays, the fourth Friday, during annual fumigation and over New Year.
The museum's most noted exhibit is a full-scale replica of a 2DK apartment from the Tokiwadaira housing complex of the late 1950s and early 1960s, furnished for a family of three with the era's electric washing machine, refrigerator and black-and-white television, plus a stainless sink and a large record player. A colour promotional film made by the Japan Housing Corporation, "Invitation to the Housing Complex", screens continuously.
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