List of museums in Japan

As of October 2018, there were 5,738 museums in Japan. This total comprises, in line with the Museum Act, 914 registered museums, 372 designated museum-equivalent facilities, and 4,452 museum-like facilities.[1]

This is a list of museums in Japan.

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By region and prefecture

Hokkaidō

Registered museums

As of 1 November 2019, and in line with the Museum Act, there were forty-five registered museums in Hokkaidō:[2]

Designated museum-equivalent facilities

As of 10 February 2015, in line with the Museum Act, there were twenty-one designated museum-equivalent facilities in Hokkaidō:[2]

Museum-like facilities, etc

These include:

Former museums

Former museums include:

Tōhoku

Aomori Prefecture
Registered museums

As of 31 March 2020, in line with the Museum Act, there were three registered museums in Aomori Prefecture:[3]

Designated museum-equivalent facilities

As of 31 March 2020, in line with the Museum Act, there was one designated museum-equivalent facility in Aomori Prefecture:[3]

Museum-like facilities

As of 31 March 2020, and as listed by the Aomori Prefectural Government, there were eighty-four museum-like facilities in Aomori Prefecture, including:[3]

Former museums
  • Hachinohe City Museum of Art

Iwate Prefecture
Registered museums and museum-equivalent facilities
Museum-like facilities, etc
  • Hachimantai City Museum
  • Hachirō Satō Memorial Museum
  • Hanamaki City Museum of History and Folklore
  • Hara Kei Memorial Museum
  • Ichinoseki City Museum
  • Ishikawa Takuboku Memorial Museum
  • Kikuta Kazuo Memorial Museum
  • Michinoku Folk Village
  • Mifune Kyūzō Memorial Museum
  • Morioka History and Culture Museum
  • Stone and Kenji Museum
  • Toneyama Kōjin Memorial Art Museum
  • Tōno Folktale Museum

Miyagi
Registered museums and museum-equivalent facilities
Museum-like facilities, etc

Akita Prefecture
Registered museums and museum-equivalent facilities
Museum-like facilities, etc

Yamagata

Fukushima

Kantō

Ibaraki

Tochigi

Gunma

Saitama

Chiba

Tokyo
Main article: List of museums in Tokyo

Kanagawa

Chūbu

Niigata

Toyama

Ishikawa

Fukui

Yamanashi

Nagano

Gifu

Shizuoka
Former museums

Aichi

Kansai

Mie

Shiga

Kyoto

Osaka
Former museums

Hyōgo

Nara
Registered museums

There are fourteen registered museums:[4]

Museum-equivalent facilities

There are six museum-equivalent facilities:[4]

Other museums and museum-like facilities

Wakayama

Chūgoku

Tottori

Shimane

Okayama

Hiroshima

Yamaguchi
Registered museums and museum-equivalent facilities
Other museums and museum-like facilities

Shikoku

Tokushima

Kagawa

Ehime

Kōchi

Kyushu

Fukuoka

Saga

Nagasaki

Kumamoto

Ōita

Miyazaki

Kagoshima

Okinawa

Registered museums and museum-equivalent facilities

Museum-like facilities, etc

References
  1. 博物館数，入館者数，学芸員数の推移 [Change in the Number of Museums, Visitors, and Curators] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  2. 道内の登録博物館・博物館相当施設 [Registered Museums and Museum-Equivalent Facilities in Hokkaidō] (PDF) (in Japanese). Hokkaido Government Board of Education. 1 November 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  3. 青森県内博物館等施設一覧 [List of Museum Facilities in Aomori Prefecture] (in Japanese). Aomori Prefecture. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  4. 博物館 [Museums]. Nara Prefecture. Retrieved 10 August 2020.

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