Kyushu National Museum

The Kyushu National Museum opened on October 16, 2005 in Dazaifu close to Fukuoka—the first new countrywide museum in Japan in over one hundred years, and the first to elevate the focus on records over artwork. The awesome present day affect created through the architectural facade is reflected within the Museum's use of technological innovations which are positioned to correct in making the museum's collections handy to the general public.

For instance, the museum's extremely high resolution video device, with the modern-day image processing and color control software, serves each in documenting the objects within the museum's collection and additionally in expanding get admission to beyond the bounds of a large, but finite exhibition area. The placing wooden and glass constructing in the hills, it hosts essential collections of Japanese artifacts, particularly ceramics, associated with the history of Kyushu. It hosts brief exhibitions on the 1/3 ground, whilst the permanent collections are on the fourth floor. The collections cover the history of Kyushu from prehistory to the Meiji technology with specific emphasis on the rich history of cultural alternate among Kyushu and neighboring China and Korea.