Fukui City History Museum, Local museum in Hōei, Japan.
Fukui City History Museum is a museum in the Hōei district of Fukui, housed in a building opened on 21 March 2004 next to the former Echizen-Matsudaira villa garden Yokokan. Its grounds incorporate the reconstructed Shōnin-mon gate of Fukui Castle. The collection focuses on historical materials of Fukui, including documents of the Fukui domain and the Echizen-Matsudaira family.
The museum was founded in 1953 and has preserved objects and records from Fukui since then. Over the decades, it expanded its collection to document different periods of the region's past.
The museum's core holdings come from the Fukui City Shun'yokukō Memorial Library and concern the Fukui Domain and the Echizen Matsudaira family. It stands beside the Yōkōkan Garden, once a villa of that family, and the restored Fukui Castle Shōnindomon gate structure is on the grounds.
The museum stands in Hōei 3-chōme, next to the Yōkōkan Garden and the reconstructed Shōninmon gate of Fukui Castle. From Fukui Station it is about a 15-minute walk via the prefectural government offices, or 10 minutes from Shin-Fukui or Jinai Joshi Kōkō stations. City buses stop at Kyōdo Rekishi Hakubutsukan-mae and Yōkōkan-guchi.
The museum stands beside the restored Joshomon gate of Fukui Castle, moved here when the building relocated to the former Echizen Matsudaira villa grounds in 2004. Its holdings centre on the Fukui domain and the Echizen Matsudaira family, including the Shun'yokuko Memorial Library.
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