is a public museum in Tokyo, Japan. It is the local history museum for the

Bunkyō is a special ward located in Tokyo, Japan. Situated in the middle of the ward area, Bunkyō is a residential and educational center. Beginning in the Meiji period, literati like Natsume Sōseki, as well as scholars and politicians have lived th ...

area. The museum was opened in April 1991. The museum has a permanent exhibition and special exhibitions. Since 1994, a newsletter, "Bunkyo Museum News" has been published once per year. In 2021, the museum celebrated its 30 year anniversary. Between 1991 and 2020 the museum has had more than 560,000 visitors.

Exhibition

The museum has two floors with a main exhibition and a basement where special exhibitions are held. The main exhibition starts with the history of the

Jōmon period The is the time in Japanese history, traditionally dated between 6,000–300 BCE, during which Japan was inhabited by a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a c ...

and

Yayoi period The started at the beginning of the Neolithic in Japan, continued through the Bronze Age, and towards its end crossed into the Iron Age. Since the 1980s, scholars have argued that a period previously classified as a transition from the Jōmon p ...

. The

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

of the Yayoi period (900 B.C.E.–250 C.E.) is particularly relevant, as the period was named after the Yayoi neighborhood in Bunkyo ward where artifacts from the era were first found in 1884 by Dr. Shogoro Tsuboi and his colleagues. Most of the rest of the museum's exhibit space is dedicated to the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

through the present era. The exhibition has several

scale model A scale model is a physical model which is geometrically similar to an object (known as the prototype). Scale models are generally smaller than large prototypes such as vehicles, buildings, or people; but may be larger than small prototypes ...

s of old buildings and streets.

References

External links

Museum website (in Japanese)
{{Authority control Museums in Tokyo History museums in Japan Museums established in 1991 1991 establishments in Japan Buildings and structures in Bunkyō