Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of History

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| name = Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of History

| native_name =茨城県立歴史館

| native_name_lang = ja

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| coordinates = {{coord|36|22|45|N|140|27|00|E|region:JP_source:kolossus-jawiki|display=inline,title}}

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| established = {{Start date|1974|09|03|df=y}}

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| location = Midoricho 2-1-1, Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan 310-0034

| type = History

| accreditation = Ibaraki Prefectural Board of Education

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| collection_size = 398,886

| visitors = 93,976 (FY2007)

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| owner = Ibaraki Prefecture

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| website = {{URL|http://www.rekishikan.museum.ibk.ed.jp/index.htm}}

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The {{nihongo|Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of History|茨城県立歴史館|Ibaraki kenritsu rekishikan}} is a local history museum in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA671&dq= "Museums"] in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 671-673.

The museum opened in September 1974. The collection focuses on the history of Ibaraki and the grounds also include a number of Edo-period farm buildings and examples of western-style Japanese architecture from the Meiji period.{{cite web |url=http://www.pref.ibaraki.jp/bukyoku/seikan/kokuko/en/travel/lib_02_06.htm |title=Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of History |publisher=Ibaraki Prefecture |accessdate=30 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421082408/http://www.pref.ibaraki.jp/bukyoku/seikan/kokuko/en/travel/lib_02_06.htm |archive-date=21 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/rtg/pdf/pg-308.pdf |title=Kashima and Mito - Mito (9) |publisher=Japan National Tourism Organization |accessdate=30 January 2012}} The collection also houses numerous artworks, historical artifacts and extensive documentation from the Tokugawa clan, who ruled Mito Domain during the Edo period.