Yokosuka City Museum, Museum of natural history and anthropology in Yokosuka, Japan.
Yokosuka City Museum is a natural history and ethnographic institution that focuses on the Miura Peninsula region. The exhibitions cover geology and wildlife alongside human settlements, showing how environment and people shaped each other over time.
The museum was established in 1954 and has documented local developments ever since. It focuses on regional transformations including economic shifts, migration patterns, and how major events reshaped daily community life.
The museum displays objects from everyday life showing how residents made things, what they wore, and how families organized their homes across different eras. These artifacts reveal the rhythms of living in this region through tangible details rather than abstract concepts.
The museum stands in a residential district next to the Yokosuka City Cultural Hall, about ten minutes on foot from Yokosuka-chuo Station on the Keikyu Main Line. Buses from Yokosuka and Kinugasa stations stop at Bunka-kaikan-mae, five minutes away. Its two annexes, the Mabori Nature Education Park and the Tenjinjima Seaside Nature Education Park, are visited separately.
The museum also manages two attached field sites: the Mabori Nature Education Park, opened in 1959 on the former grounds of an army heavy artillery school, where a stone monument marks the birthplace of the heavy artillery, and the Tenjinjima Seaside Nature Education Park, whose visitor centre opened in 1999.
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