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[[Image:Kyotonatlmuseum.jpg|right|thumb|240px|The main hall of the Kyoto National Museum.]]
*''Established: [[1889]]''
*''Japanese'': 京都国立博物館 ''(Kyouto kokuritsu hakubutsukan)''

The Kyoto National Museum is one of four [[National Museums]] in Japan, along with ones in [[Nara National Museum|Nara]], [[Tokyo National Museum|Tokyo]], and [[Kyushu National Museum|Dazaifu (Kyushu)]].

Located on the eastern side of the [[Kamo River]], near Shichi-jô, the museum features Japanese, Chinese, and other East Asian art and artifacts. It traces its history to the first modern museum founded in Kyoto, established in [[1875]], and housed in a rice storehouse on the grounds of the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace]]. That museum, operated by [[Kyoto Prefecture]], closed in [[1883]], but its collections were moved to a new building, which later become the Kyoto Imperial Museum. The idea of a system of Imperial Museums was established in [[1889]], and the Kyoto Imperial Museum, designed by [[Katayama Tokuma|Katayama Tôkuma]], was completed in [[1895]] in a French Baroque style.<ref>Francis D.K. Ching, et al, ''A Global History of Architecture'', Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons (2011), 699.</ref>

The museum was renamed the Kyoto Imperial Household Museum in [[1900]], and then in 1924, in connection with the wedding of the Crown Prince, it was renamed the Kyoto Museum. Finally, the museum was renamed the Kyoto National Museum in 1952, and control of the museum was transferred to the Agency of Cultural Affairs.

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==References==
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%9B%BD%E7%AB%8B%E5%8D%9A%E7%89%A9%E9%A4%A8 Kyoto kokuritsu hakubutsukan]." ''Sekai daihyakka jiten'' 世界大百科事典. Hitachi Solutions, 2012.
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