3-509: Akita Prefectural Museum ( 秋田県立博物館 , Akita Kenritsu Hakubutsukan ) is a prefectural museum in the city of Akita , Japan. It houses a comprehensive display of archaeological artifacts, crafts, biological and geological samples pertaining to the history and folklore of Akita Prefecture . The museum opened in May 1975 and reopened after renovations in April 2004. This article related to
6-566: A museum in Japan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Prefectural museum A prefectural museum is a museum that specializes in collections local to a prefecture of Japan . Prefectural museums emerged in postwar Japan , and since these institutions are of recent origin their collections tend not to contain older Japan arts, with primarily Meiji era , 20th-century , and contemporary art . Most prefectural museums feature collections of arts, culture, and history with
9-501: A strong emphasis on their native prefecture, but can exhibit works and collections from outside of the prefecture alongside the native collections, usually contemporary art from cultural centers such as Tokyo and exotic art from outside Japan. For example, the Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum specializing in art related to the city of Nagasaki also houses a collection of paintings from Spain belonging to
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