opened in
Chūō-ku,
Ōsaka, Japan in 2001. The project architects were
César Pelli & Associates and Nihon Sekkei. It is adjoined by an atrium to the NHK Osaka Broadcasting Center, which was designed by the same architects and built at the same time. The former
Osaka City Museum closed earlier the same year. Over four floors, the displays tell the history of the city from the time of the
Former Naniwa Palace, located in the area now occupied by the museum. Remains of a warehouse, walls, and water supply facilities for the palace are also on view in the basement. In 2005, the collection numbered some 100,000 objects. By 2016, it had grown to 138,595 objects, while a further 17,632 items were on deposit at the museum.
See also
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Museums in Osaka
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these i ...
References
External links
Osaka Museum of History(official site)
Osaka Museum of Historyat The Skyscraper Center
Project entry at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects (named César Pelli & Associates at the time they designed the building)
Project entryat the Nihon Sekkei website
Museums in Osaka
History museums in Japan
Chūō-ku, Osaka
2001 establishments in Japan
Museums established in 2001
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