Okayama Orient Museum
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岡山市立オリエント美術館 | |
 Okayama Orient Museum | |
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| Established | 1979 |
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| Location | 9-31 Tenjin-chō, Kita-ku, Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan |
| Coordinates | 34°39′59″N 133°55′48″E / 34.66639°N 133.93000°E |
| Owner | Okayama City |
| Website | www |
Okayama Orient Museum (岡山市立オリエント美術館, Okayama Shiritsu Oriento Bijutsukan) 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]
