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Museum Introduction

History

This museum is a comprehensive museum established with the aim of consolidating and displaying all the historical materials that had been stored in various locations around the university since its founding. Its origins lie in the Archaeological Specimen Room (later the Archaeological Materials Room) established on the Osaki Campus (now the Shinagawa Campus) in 1932 and the Archaeological Display Room established on the Kumagaya Campus in 1978. Based on these two facilities, the Rissho University Museum was opened in 2002 as a project to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the university's founding. It was subsequently approved by Saitama Prefecture as a "museum-equivalent facility" in March 2004.
　
Rissho University Museum collects, preserves, and displays academic materials relating to history, art, folklore, industry, and natural history, and serves as a university-affiliated museum that conducts research on these subjects.



Special Exhibitions

Rissho University Museum holds two exhibitions a year (spring special exhibition, autumn special exhibition). These exhibitions focus on materials in the museum's collection. It also serves as a forum for the research results of each faculty, and holds lectures in conjunction with the special exhibitions.

Additionally, an exhibition space was set up at the entrance to Building 9 on the Shinagawa Campus in April 2014. In this exhibition space, the museum's collection is introduced through exhibition panels, and special exhibitions and traveling exhibitions are held.

Publications

In addition to the "Museum Guide" and "Rissho University Museum Overview," the museum also publishes the "Rissho University Museum Annual Report" once a year, the "Basic Documents on Materials in the Museum Collection" series, and the twice-yearly museum newsletter, "Mankichi News."

Museum training

As part of our educational and research activities, we provide the museum with a place for museum curator training. Every year, we host 10 to 20 students for a week-long training session during the summer vacation.

In addition to learning how to take photographs, pack items, join and make rubbings of pottery, and create reference cards, students also take part in natural history classes taught by professors from Faculty of Geo-Environmental Science, and learn how to handle swords.

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