Kyushu Ceramic Museum

{{Short description|Museum in Japan}}

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The {{nihongo|Kyushu Ceramics Museum|九州陶磁文化館|Kyūshū Toji Bunkakan}} is a museum located in Arita town, Saga Prefecture, Japan.{{cite web | url=http://saga-museum.jp/ceramic/ | title=The Kyushu Ceramics Museum | publisher=Saga Prefecture Government | accessdate=June 28, 2011}}; Saga Prefecture Tourism Division, Guide To SAGA — Tourism & Products. (Brochure.) 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 was built to contribute to the local cultural heritage, and the development of ceramics and pottery culture throughout Kyūshū, southern Japan. A valuable and extensive exhibition of work such as the famous Kanbara Collection of old Imari from Europe of the 17th to 18th centuries, as well as the Shibata Collection covering Arita pottery manufactured from 1603 to 1867.

Collections:

- Shibata Collection

- Kanbara Collection

- Old Ceramics of Kyushu

- Hakuu Collection

- Takatori Collection

- Aoki Ryuzan Works Collection

- Nakazato Hoan Works Collection