The Kobe City Museum was opened in 1982, combining the collections of the Kobe Archaeological Museum with Namban Art Museum into a single one. The museum’s permanent exhibition features an interesting collection of maps from various regions and eras of Japan, and also artifacts representing Japan’s exchange with foreign countries from earliest cultural imports from China and Korea to trading goods that entered Kobe after its port was opened to foreign trade in the 19th century.
The museum also has one of the world’s largest collections of Namban Art (“Southern Barbarian Art”), a Japanese art style that developed out of the first contacts with Western trade ships (which came to Japan from the South) in the 1500s. The rotating exhibits include colorful paintings and folding screens which depict scenes of early Japanese contacts with foreign traders and missionaries or were affected by European art design.
The museum also holds temporary special exhibitions on a limited time basis.
Information on the Kobe City Museum
Hours: 10:00 to 17:00 (Fridays until 19:00)
Admission ends 30 minutes before closing.
Closed: Mondays (or the following day when Monday is a national holiday), New Year holidays
Admission: 200 yen (when no special exhibition), more expensive during special exhibitions
Indication in English: Minimal
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