Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of History (兵庫県立歴史博物館, Hyōgo kenritsu rekishi hakubutsukan) opened to the immediate northeast of Himeji Castle in Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan in 1983.[1] The collection of over 200,000 items includes one Important Cultural Property — a painting on silk of the parinirvana of the Buddha, dating to the Kamakura period[2] — and five Prefectural Tangible Cultural Properties.[3] | ||||||
Location: Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture | ||||||
Opened: April 1983[1] | ||||||