Modern Transportation Museum Explained

Modern Transportation Museum
Map Type:Japan
Established:21 January 1962
Dissolved:6 April 2014
Location:Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan

The was the corporate museum operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) in Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan. It opened on 21 January 1962, next to Bentencho Station on the Osaka Loop Line. The collection included steam locomotives, electric locomotives, diesel locomotives, a prototype of a magnetic levitation train, and the original engine of a Messerschmitt Me 163.

The museum was closed on 6 April 2014, and the exhibits were moved to what eventually became the Kyoto Railway Museum in 2016.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20130724-00000047-rps-bus_all. ja:大阪の交通科学博物館、2014年4月6日に閉館…京都の新鉄道博物館に移行. Modern Transportation Museum to close 6 April 2014 - Moving to new railway museum in Kyoto. 24 July 2013. Yahoo News. Yahoo Japan Corporation. Japan. Japanese. https://web.archive.org/web/20130728053211/http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20130724-00000047-rps-bus_all. 28 July 2013. 25 July 2013. dead.