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[[Image:Narahaku.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The main building (''honkan'') at the Nara National Museum.]]

[[Image:Narahaku.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The main building (''honkan'') at the Nara National Museum.]]

*''Established: [[1889]]''

*''Established: [[1889]]''

*''Japanese'': 奈良県立博物館 ''(Nara kenritsu hakubutsukan)''

*''Japanese'': 奈良国立博物館 ''(Nara kokuritsu 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.

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.

==References==

==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.

*"[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:Historic Buildings]]

[[Category:Meiji Period]]

[[Category:Meiji Period]]

[[Category:Art and Architecture]]

[[Category:Art and Architecture]]