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[[Image:Narahaku.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The main building (''honkan'') at the Nara National Museum.]]
*''Established: [[1889]]''
*''Japanese'': 奈良県立博物館 ''(Nara kenritsu hakubutsukan)''
The Nara National Museum is one of four top-tier national museums in Japan, along with museums located in [[Tokyo National Museum|Tokyo]], [[Kyoto National Museum|Kyoto]], and [[Kyushu National Museum|Dazaifu (Kyushu)]]. It specializes in [[Buddhist art]], and is home every year to a temporary exhibit showing treasures from the [[Shosoin|Shôsôin]]; the exhibit regularly attracts the most visitors of temporary/special museum exhibits, worldwide.
A predecessor to the official museum, from [[1875]] to [[1877]], a combination public-private effort saw treasures from the [[Shosoin|Shôsôin]] and various other temples displayed inside the Great Buddha Hall at [[Todai-ji|Tôdai-ji]]. The museum was formally established in [[1889]], alongside the Tokyo and Kyoto National Museums. The exhibition hall, designed by [[Katayama Tokuma|Katayama Tôkuma]], was completed and opened in [[1895]]. The museum changed names several times over its history, from being the Nara Imperial Museum originally, to the National Museum Nara Annex following World War II, and then in 1952, becoming the Nara National Museum.
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==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%A5%88%E8%89%AF%E5%9B%BD%E7%AB%8B%E5%8D%9A%E7%89%A9%E9%A4%A8 Nara kokuritsu hakubutsukan]." ''Sekai daihyakka jiten'' 世界大百科事典. Hitachi Solutions, 2012.
[[Category:Historic Buildings]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Art and Architecture]]
*''Established: [[1889]]''
*''Japanese'': 奈良県立博物館 ''(Nara kenritsu hakubutsukan)''
The Nara National Museum is one of four top-tier national museums in Japan, along with museums located in [[Tokyo National Museum|Tokyo]], [[Kyoto National Museum|Kyoto]], and [[Kyushu National Museum|Dazaifu (Kyushu)]]. It specializes in [[Buddhist art]], and is home every year to a temporary exhibit showing treasures from the [[Shosoin|Shôsôin]]; the exhibit regularly attracts the most visitors of temporary/special museum exhibits, worldwide.
A predecessor to the official museum, from [[1875]] to [[1877]], a combination public-private effort saw treasures from the [[Shosoin|Shôsôin]] and various other temples displayed inside the Great Buddha Hall at [[Todai-ji|Tôdai-ji]]. The museum was formally established in [[1889]], alongside the Tokyo and Kyoto National Museums. The exhibition hall, designed by [[Katayama Tokuma|Katayama Tôkuma]], was completed and opened in [[1895]]. The museum changed names several times over its history, from being the Nara Imperial Museum originally, to the National Museum Nara Annex following World War II, and then in 1952, becoming the Nara National Museum.
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==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%A5%88%E8%89%AF%E5%9B%BD%E7%AB%8B%E5%8D%9A%E7%89%A9%E9%A4%A8 Nara kokuritsu hakubutsukan]." ''Sekai daihyakka jiten'' 世界大百科事典. Hitachi Solutions, 2012.
[[Category:Historic Buildings]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Art and Architecture]]