The Tokyo National Museum opened in 1872 when an exhibition was held at the Yushima Seido Confucian shrine in Tokyo. The Tokyo National Museum collects, preserves, restores, and displays art, archaeological objects, and other cultural properties from Japan and across Asia. The museum also conducts research on these properties and promotes understanding of them through educational activities and contains the longest history among all the museums in Japan. The museum collection comprises around 114,000 items, including 87 National Treasures and 634 Important Cultural Properties making it the best collection of cultural properties in Japan in terms of both quality and number. The regular exhibition galleries exhibit around 3,000 of these works at any given time.

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