National Museum of Ethnology

The National Museum of Ethnology founded in 1974 and opened to the public in 1977 is a comprehensive Research Museum with about 60 academic researchers specializing in Ethnology and related fields.

It hosts an extensive collection of artifacts, some 250,000 in total, from all over the world. Of these, about 12,000 items are on display in the regular exhibition.

In addition, the Museum has a wide range of electronic, audio- visual and printed materials as part of its library holdings.

One of the main focuses of the Museum has been to provide the general public with accurate and updated information about various societies around the world, in order to facilitate understanding of people with different cultural backgrounds living together in the modern world. In Japanese, the National Museum of Ethnology is referred to as “Minpaku”.

In the Special Exhibition Hall, temporary exhibitions on special topics are organized each year. These exhibitions often involve rare ethnological materials loaned by museums in other countries.

Hours: 10 a.m- 5p.m.; Thu- Tue; closed Dec 28- Jan 4 and Feb 18- Feb 22.

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Contact Information

National Museum of Ethnology
10-1 Senri-Banpaku-koen, Suita
565-8511 Osaka

Tel. +81668762151
fukyu@idc.minpaku.ac.jp
http://www.minpaku.ac.jp