Okayama Orient Museum | |
Native Name: | 岡山市立オリエント美術館 |
Coordinates: | 34.6664°N 133.93°W |
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Established: | 1979 |
Location: | 9-31 Tenjin-chō, Kita-ku, Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan |
Owner: | Okayama City |
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is a museum of Ancient Near Eastern, Roman provincial, Byzantine, Sassanian, and Islamic Art in Kita-ku, Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. As of 2007 there were some 4,852 items, including a winged Assyrian relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud, Mesopotamia, acquired to mark the institution's 25th anniversary.[1]
The museum was founded to house the collection of Shinjiro Yasuhiro, who acquired thousands of objects with the advice of academics from the University of Tokyo.[2]
The museum building has two floors of exhibition galleries to showcase the collection. It was constructed in 1979 by the city of Okayama from a prize-winning design by Okada Architect & Associates.[3]