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Sagamihara City Museum

Kanagawa · Sagamihara · Museums

Japanese name: 相模原市立博物館

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Sagamihara City Museum
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WHAT TO DOSagamihara City Museum

Home of the Katsusaka pottery type, whose middle-Jomon vessels are almost overloaded with ornament.

WHEREKanagawa

Central · Sagamihara

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Home of the Katsusaka pottery type, whose middle-Jomon vessels are almost overloaded with ornament.

About this place

Sagamihara City Museum is a municipal museum in Chuo Ward, Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture. On November 20, 1995 (Heisei 7), it opened on the site adjoining the Sagamihara Annex of the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (now the National Film Archive of Japan), on the former site of Camp Fuchinobe. The building contains a permanent exhibition room, a special exhibition room, an astronomy exhibition room, a planetarium, meeting rooms, a shop and more. Admission is free; only the planetarium charges a fee, and the parking lot for about 100 cars is free.

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Founded / opened:1995 Highlights / collection:Pottery from the Katsusaka site, Archaeological materials of Sagamino Genre:Antique art and Buddhist art

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