Yamato Museum

Yamato Museum
Established	2005
Location	5-20 Takara-machi, Kure, Hiroshima
Website	yamato.kure-city.jp

The Yamato Museum is a nickname of the "Kure Maritime Museum" in Kure, Hiroshima, Japan.

Contents 1 History 2 Museum 2.1 Exhibition Rooms 2.2 Other rooms 2.3 Fourth floor view terrace 2.4 Museum shop Yamato 2.5 Outside 3 Access 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

History

The museum opened on April 23, 2005. It is nicknamed the Yamato Museum due to the display in the lobby of the large model ship Yamato Hiroba, a 1/10 scale model of the Japanese battleship Yamato (see image at right).

Museum

Exhibition Rooms

• Yamato Hiroba - 1/10 scale of the Japanese battleship Yamato
• History of Kure - as the shipbuilding, port city and the chinjyufu
• Large Objects Exhibition Room
• Shipbuilding Technology
• Future Prospects

Other rooms

• Experiment work room
• Library
• The citizens gallery
• Meeting rooms

Fourth floor view terrace

The museum has an observation terrace on the 4th floor of the building, where people can stand to view the area.

Museum shop Yamato

The museum contains a gift shop.

Outside

• Brick park
• Lawn plaza
• Yamato Wharf

Access

• JR Kure Station
• Kure City bus "Youmetown Yamato Museum-mae" bus stop
• Kure Port

See also

Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Yamato_Museum Yamato Museum] at Wikimedia Commons

• Yamato (film)

References

• Museum website: Yamato Museum (English).

External links

• Yamato Museum (homepage, in English)