Tokyo National Museum
1. The name of the museum and Countries.
Tokyo National Museum located in Tokyo, Japan.
2. What is the implied meaning in a museum?
The Tokyo National Museum collects, houses, and displays a comprehensive collection of art works and antiquities from Japan as well as other Asian countries. The museum also conducts research and investigations concerning its collection of books, rubbings, and photographs, related to fine art, and makes these items available to scholars.
The Independent Administrative Institution National Museum and the Independent Administrative Institution Research Institute of Cultural Properties were merged as of April 1, 2007 to create the Independent Administrative Institution National Institute for Cultural Property. National Institutes for Cultural Heritage was established in order to carry out preservation and utilization of cultural properties more efficiently and effectively.
The first exhibition was held by the Museum Department of the Ministry of Education at the Taiseiden Hall, in this year the Tokyo National Museum came into being. Soon after the opening, the Museum moved to Uchiyamashita-cho (present Uchisaiwai-cho 1-chome, Chiyodaku, Tokyo), then in 1882 moved again to the Ueno Park, the current location.
After that for more than 150 years, the Museum has been transformed through organizational reforms and administrative change, reflecting on policy of each time.
3. What make you interested in that museum? Capture something that makes you feel so in love with that museum.
The Tokyo National Museum is a representative museum that comprehensively exhibits Japanese cultural assets and is the oldest museum in Japan. Because of those reasons I would like to observe this museum more. All of the artworks are authentic, for instance this old Japanese armor that still in a good condition stored.
4. Show the artwork you like with the meaning.
This jar of flower is stored in the part of the museum that holds a collection of Western styled arts, including image above. The message it carries perhaps to show the relation between West and Asia can be beautiful.
