Yokohama Silk Museum
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Yokohama Silk Museum is a museum
located in Naka-ku
, Yokohama
, Japan
that covers the silk trade in Japan. The museum displays silk kimono
s and covers the importance of Yokohama as a silk port.
The objective of the museum is, according to their website:
to disseminate an understanding of the science and technology of silk production, display beautiful costumes for people to admire and promote the demand for silk..
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
located in Naka-ku
Naka-ku, Yokohama
is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 146,563and a density of 7,080 persons per km². The total area was 20.86 km².-Geography:...
, Yokohama
Yokohama
is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
that covers the silk trade in Japan. The museum displays silk kimono
Kimono
The is a Japanese traditional garment worn by men, women and children. The word "kimono", which literally means a "thing to wear" , has come to denote these full-length robes...
s and covers the importance of Yokohama as a silk port.
The objective of the museum is, according to their website:
to disseminate an understanding of the science and technology of silk production, display beautiful costumes for people to admire and promote the demand for silk..