Tokyo National Museum

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/tokyo-national-museum

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Tokyo National Museum built?1872
2. What is the location?Ueno Park, Taitō ward, Tokyo, Japan
3. What is the operator?National Institutes for Cultural Heritage
4. When was the Tokyo National Museum opened?It was established in 1872 during the Meiji era.
5. How many treasures does the museum have?The museum holds about 120,000 cultural properties, including 89 National Treasures and 649 Important Cultural Properties.

Cultural Heritage: The legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present, and bestowed for the future.
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Greco-Buddhist Art: A form of art that emerged in Gandhara (modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan) around the 1st century CE, blending Hellenistic artistic styles with Buddhist themes and iconography.