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A museum that spent over a decade cleaning and restoring 560,000 objects swept up by the tsunami.
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The Rikuzentakata City Museum (Rikuzentakata City Museum) is a museum in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. Together with the Iwate Prefectural Museum and the Ichinoseki City Museum, it is one of only three facilities in Iwate Prefecture approved for public exhibition (facilities permitted to exhibit National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties). It was damaged by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake (the Tohoku Pacific Ocean Earthquake, hereafter "the disaster") and has been rebuilt.
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Source ja.wikipedia.org ↗Key facts
Founded / opened：1959 Highlights / collection：Stabilisation of disaster-damaged materials, Folk tools of Sanriku Genre：Antique art and Buddhist art, Mingei (folk crafts)
Source ja.wikipedia.org ↗Official website
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Source city.rikuzentakata.iwate.jp ↗Before you go
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