Kobe City Museum

{{Short description|Museum in Japan}}

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Image:Kobe city museum01 1920.jpg branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank (1935)]]

Image:泰西王侯騎馬図屏風.jpg byōbu that forms part of the museum collection]]

The {{nihongo|Kobe City Museum|神戸市立博物館|Kōbe-shiritsu Hakubutsukan}} opened in Kobe, Japan in 1982. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a municipality.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA671&dq= "Museums"] in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 671-673.

The museum resulted from the merger of the Municipal Archaeological Art Museum and Municipal Namban Art Museum. The museum is housed in a neoclassical building built in 1935:{{Cite web |url=http://travel.michelin.com/web/destination/Japan-Kobe/tourist_site-Kobe_City_Museum |title=Kobe City Museum - Kobe - Michelin Travel |access-date=11 November 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190052/http://travel.michelin.com/web/destination/Japan-Kobe/tourist_site-Kobe_City_Museum |url-status=dead }} the former Kobe branch of the Yokohama Specie Bank. The collection of nearly thirty-nine thousand items comprises archaeological artifacts, works of art, old maps, and historical documents and artifacts relating to Kobe. It includes an important collection of Nanban art (the former Hajime Ikenaga Collection), as well as a set of dōtaku and other items of the Yayoi period from excavations at Sakuragaoka that have been designated a National Treasure.{{cite web |url=http://www.city.kobe.lg.jp/culture/culture/institution/museum/pdf/kcm_e_guide.pdf |title=Kobe City Museum e-guide |publisher=Kobe City |accessdate=28 March 2011}}{{cite web |url=https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/201/866 |title=Database of Registered National Cultural Properties |publisher=Agency for Cultural Affairs |accessdate=28 March 2011}}