Ancient Orient Museum, Archaeological museum in Sunshine City, Higashi-Ikebukuro, Japan.
The Ancient Orient Museum displays around 4,000 objects from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, and Gandhara across different exhibition areas. The collection includes pottery, jewelry, coins, statues, and other items that show the daily life and arts of these ancient cultures.
The museum's foundation was established on 31 March 1977, with Hiroki Imazato as first chairman, and it opened on 5 October 1978 as Japan's first museum specializing in the ancient Orient, under founding director Namio Egami. It has excavated in Syria and at the Dalverzin Tepe site in Uzbekistan. Namio Egami led it until his death, after which Kiyohiko Sakurai became director in 2003.
The museum opened on 5 October 1978 as Japan's first museum devoted to the ancient Orient, with Yasumoto Bōfu as its first director. Its collection of about 4,000 objects covers West Asia and the Silk Road in Central Asia, including Greco-Buddhist Gandhara art and works from Palmyra and Persia.
The museum is located in a shopping complex and is easily accessible by public transportation. Visitors should allow enough time to explore the different exhibition areas at a comfortable pace.
The museum opened on 5 October 1978 as Japan's first museum devoted to the ancient Orient, with the archaeologist Namio Egami as its first director. It has about 4,000 objects from West and Central Asia, and it has carried out its own excavations, including at Dalverzin Tepe in Uzbekistan.
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