Tenri University Sankokan Museum
Tenri · Nara
Address: 250 Morimedo, Tenri, Nara 632-8540
Tenri University's museum of "life and culture of the world and antiquities of the world". It began in 1930 as a reference collection at the Tenri School of Foreign Languages and took its present name when it became part of Tenri University in 1950. About 3,000 of its more than 280,000 ethnographic, archaeological and transport-related objects are on permanent display on floors 1 to 3, and three or four feature exhibitions are held each year. About 20 minutes' walk from Tenri Station (JR and Kintetsu).
Exhibitions
- Craftsmanship and Identity: Embodied Traditions of Life and Costume in Asia’s Ethnic Communities — Tenri University Sankokan Museum · Nara · –