Nagano City Museum, City museum in Kawanakajima Kosenjō Historic Park, Japan.
Nagano City Museum opened on 23 September 1981 in Yahatahara Historic Park, the Kawanakajima battlefield site. Architect Tadanaga Miyamoto's building won the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize and was named among the Ministry of Construction's 100 selected public buildings in 1981. Its galleries cover astronomy with a planetarium, geology, history and folklore of the Nagano Basin.
This institution opened in 1981 on a site where major battles took place in earlier centuries. Its collections document how the Nagano region changed and developed over the centuries.
The museum's cultural displays cover the folklore and daily life of the Nagano Basin, including a relocated late-Edo-period oil wholesaler, the Mikawaya Shōzaemon shop, now the Monzen Shōka Chokkura Oirai-kan annex. This building was registered as a national cultural property in 2006.
The building is easy to navigate with connected gallery spaces that flow logically from one section to another. Plan to spend two to three hours exploring the different collections at your own pace.
The museum building, designed by Tadanaga Miyamoto, won the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize in 1981, the same year it opened, and was also named to the Ministry of Construction's selection of 100 public buildings. It stands inside Yahatahara Historic Park, the site of the Kawanakajima battles.
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