The Fukuoka City Museum will be fully closed until 2021/3/31(Wed) for partial renovation

●Period of Closure

2020/11/30 (Mon) ‐ 2021/3/31 (Wed)

・The period may be prolonged in accordance with the construction procedures.

・All of the museum’s facilities will be out of service during the aforementioned period.

●Places to be Renovated

・Power receiving and transforming system and toilet.

●About the National Treasure Gold Seal

The Gold Seal (National Treasure) is the Fukuoka City Museum’s most renowned collection. Due to the Fukuoka City Museum’s closure, the seal will be exhibited at the Fukuoka Art Museum. The schedule of the exhibit is as follows:

・Exhibition Period

2020/12/8 (Tue)‐ 2021/3/28 (Sun)

・Fukuoka Art Museum

1‐6 Ohori Koen, Chuo‐ku, Fukuoka city, Fukuoka prefecture, 810‐0051 Japan

Phone: +81‐(0)92‐714‐6051 Fax: +81‐(0)92‐714‐6071

[Hours]

9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Last admission at 5:00 p.m.)

[Closed]

Mondays (or the following weekday if Monday falls on a national holiday)

Dec. 28th to Jan. 4th

[Admission]

Adults 200 yen / High school and university students 150 yen

*No charge for Junior High School Students and younger

Following gold seal‐related artifacts will also be alternately exhibited at the Fukuoka Art Museum

during the period mentioned above.

・Kinin‐ben (The first surveying report on the Gold seal written by Nanmei Kamei).

・Shikanoshima‐kinin‐shi (poem) : A poem written by Donei, a priest of the Sofukuji temple, who is also a younger brother of Nanmei Kamei.

・ Portrait of Naritaka Kuroda, who was a lord of the Kuroda family at the time the Gold seal was discovered.