Wakayama Prefecture Kii-fudoki-no-oka Museum of Archaeology and Folklore

Wakayama Prefecture Kii-fudoki-no-oka Museum of Archaeology and Folklore
Wakayama Prefecture Kii-fudoki-no-oka Museum of Archaeology and Folklore
和歌山県立紀伊風土記の丘
	Wakayama Prefecture Kii-fudoki-no-oka Museum of Archaeology and Folklore
General information
Address	1411 Iwase
Town or city	Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture
Country	Japan
Coordinates	34°13′40″N 135°13′47″E / 34.227842°N 135.229640°E
Opened	August 1971
Technical details
Floor area	1,687m2
Website
	ja

Wakayama Prefecture Kii-fudoki-no-oka Museum of Archaeology and Folklore (和歌山県立紀伊風土記の丘, Wakayama kenritsu fudoki-no-oka) is an archaeology museum located in the outskirts of the city of Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.

It was opened in August 1971 with the main purpose of preserving, researching, and displaying artifacts from the Iwase-Senzuka Kofun Cluster, a Special National Historic Site. ^[1]

The museum encompasses a 65 hectare area containing about 400 kofun burial mounds, restored pit dwellings, relocated old folk houses of the Edo period (including two which are designated Important Cultural Properties, and a botanical garden.

The museum building itself was built by donations from Matsushita Konosuke, the industrialist who founded Panasonic, and is styled after a raised-floor warehouse from the Yayoi period, and is covered with the same type of stone used in the burial chambers of the tumuli in the adjacent Iwase-Senzuka Kofun Cluster.

The museum contains items excavated from these kofun, as well as pottery excavated from the ruins of Negoro-ji and other locations and folk implements.