Maizuru City Commemoration Hall, History museum in Maizuru Red Brick Warehouses complex, Japan.
The Maizuru City Commemoration Hall occupies a red brick warehouse built in 1903 as a storehouse for miscellaneous goods and damaged weapons of the former Imperial Japanese Navy, one of the Maizuru Red Brick Warehouses. Its first floor holds a 200-seat hall, a 16-seat meeting room and a citizens' salon; the second floor is an exhibition corner. Total floor area is 1,204 m².
Built in 1903 as a storehouse for miscellaneous goods and damaged weapons for the Imperial Japanese Navy, the red brick warehouse was later converted into the Maizuru City Commemoration Hall, which opened in October 1994. It forms part of the Maizuru red brick warehouse group and is designated an Important Cultural Property.
The exhibition rooms on the second floor centre on Maizuru's own history: the naval base and the repatriation of Japanese from the Asian mainland after 1945. A permanent display is devoted to Sueo Oe, the athlete known for the friendship medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The hall opened in October 1994 as a civic exchange space.
The hall is about a 10-minute walk from Higashi Maizuru Station on the JR Maizuru Line, heading toward Maizuru City Hall; the Kyoto Kotsu Tozai Junkan and Wada lines stop at City Hall-mae, right by the entrance. It opens from 9:00 to 17:00 and closes on Mondays, or the following day when Monday is a holiday, as well as over the New Year period. Admission is free.
The hall keeps a display on Sueo Oe, the Japanese pole vaulter known for the friendship medal at the Berlin Olympics. The building itself is one of the red brick warehouses of the Maizuru group, built in 1903 as a naval store for miscellaneous goods and damaged weapons, and now a designated Important Cultural Property.
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