Famous Museums in Nagoya

Let's explore the finest collection of museums in Nagoya:

1. Toyota Commemorative Museum Of Industry And Technology

   4.5 (643 Votes)
   

   Museum, Exhibition , Specialty Museum

   Toyota is Japan's largest car manufacturer. This is not the automobile museum. For the company, it's actually a history museum. Housed in the original brick building of the former Toyoda textile factory and research center, the museum explores the company's origins from a textile concern to a automobile concern. The complex has two main buildings: one dedicated to textiles and the other to auto...Read more

2. Scmaglev And Railway Park

   4.3 (385 Votes)
   

   Museum, Exhibition , Specialty Museum

   If you are train geek, this could easily be your favorite museum ever. Where to start? First, there are the 39 retired train carriages that you can climb into and underneath. These range from ancient steam engines to the latest maglev models. Exhibits inside and around the trains explain all you need to know about them - operation, construction and maintenance. The second floor of the museum is...Read more

3. Nagoya City Science Museum

   4.3 (512 Votes)
   

   Museum, Planetarium , Exhibition , Specialty Museum

   It's hard to miss the museum - the giant silver globe that houses the world's largest planetarium is rather prominent. The planetarium shows, which happen six times a day, are the main attraction of the museum. Most of the Museum's other attractions were renovated in 2011 and 2012 to coincide with the opening of the planetarium. The museum has seven floors of exhibits which are mostly interacti...Read more

4. Tokugawa Art Museum And Garden

   4.1 (188 Votes)
   

   Art Museum, Museum, Garden, Specialty Museum

   The Tokugawa Dynasty, descended from the first Shogun Tokugawa, is one of Japan's most historically influential families. It also used to be one of the wealthiest. This Museum and garden was commissioned in 1935 at the site of the Owari's former feudal residence as a place to exhibit and preserve the legacy of the family - Arms and Armory, artwork, Furniture, clothing, Costumes, the Tale of Gen...Read more

5. Nagoya- Boston Museum Of Fine Arts

   4 (192 Votes)
   

   Art Museum, Museum, Specialty Museum

   Opened in 1999, the art museum's main purpose was to bring in travelling exhibits of the kind that are rarely seen in Japan - world art from all cultures and times. To this end, it became a sister museum to the Boston Museum for Fine Arts. As such, there are no real permanent exhibitions here, but highly interesting travelling special exhibitions that are loaned on a 5 month and/or 5 year basis...Read more

6. The Yamazaki Mazak Museum Of Art

   4.1 (164 Votes)
   

   Art Museum, Museum, Specialty Museum

   This is a simple Fine Art Museum focused on French paintings from the 18th to the 20th century. It also has substantial collections of Art Noveau furniture and glassware. The interior of the building is as exquisite as the artwork inside, for it has been decorated to resemble the art salons of those periods. Some of the artists represented inside include Pierre Bonnard, Francois Boucher, Ferdin...Read more

7. Nagoya Shisei Shiryokan

   4.2 (231 Votes)
   

   Museum

   There is more to see in the Nagoya City archives than you would expect. Constructed in 1922 as a courthouse, district court and a ward court, the building has since been recognized as national cultural property. Inside, you will find one of the country's finest examples of stained glass windows, an example of a courtroom as it used to be under the old Constitution, a cell for keeping prisoners ...Read more

8. Aichi Prefectural Museum Of Art

   3.9 (45 Votes)
   

   Art Museum, Museum, Specialty Museum

   Nagoya City's main Performing Arts venue has on its tenth floor a small but excellent Museum dedicated to art. The museum hosts a variety of temporary exhibitions, it's permanent collection is noteworthy - International and domestic fine art from the 20th century, Including works by Masters such as by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Gustav Klimt, and Paul Klee. Paintings and sculptures make up th...Read more

9. Cultural Path Futaba Museum

   4 (31 Votes)
   

   Museum, Historical Site, Specialty Museum

   This is a historical home. it used to belong to the woman widely acknowledged as Japan's first actress, and the man known as the "king of electric power" - Sadayakko Kawakami and Momosuke Fukuzawa. Blending Japanese and Western architectural styles, the house was very radical for its time. It became an important gathering point for intellectuals and radicals. Today the museum, which is preserve...Read more

10. Toyota Kaikan Museum

    4.3 (2 Votes)
    

    Specialty Museum

    The Toyota Kaikan Museum is a technology museum where you will get firsthand knowledge of the production process used in the Toyota cars. You will also learn about the safety measures used in the Toyota cars from the video displays shown around the complex. Various vehicles are there inside which you can sit and learn about the features. The Toyota Kaikan Museum also features many displays on T...Read more

11. Noritake Garden

    3.9 (2 Votes)
    3 Chome-3-1-36 Noritakeshinmachi, Nishi-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken 451-8501, Japan
    Museum