Huang Goodman · Art Forgotten

Art Forgotten

Art from public museum collections. A mismatched real Japanese law, and some other factoids.

Every object, image and description comes from the museum's own catalogue record, and every object links to its original. Japanese records are machine-translated into English; the museum's Japanese is kept beside the translation because it is the authoritative form. Each law carries its official number and links to e-Gov 法令検索, the Japanese government's statute database.

山水屏風 第六扇 部分
{山水屏風 第六扇 部分 · 東京文化財研究所撮影 · 1930~1955年頃 · Japan Search · 国立国会図書館}
Scroll painting of mountains and water, sixth panel. · Tokyo Cultural Heritage Research Institute Photography.

Kyoto National Museum possesses a "mountain water scroll screen" (Depository code: A-Alpha 227). The glass plate photograph of this work was taken at Tokyo Cultural Property Research Institute around 1930-1955. The information about the title and so on is written based on the investigation records during the photographing process. For the current information about the title and so on, please confirm it with the respective preservation institutions.

京都国立博物館が所蔵する「山水屏風」(機関管理番号:A甲227)を東京文化財研究所で1930~1955年頃に撮影したガラス乾板です。作品名等の情報は撮影時の調査記録を元に記載しております。現在の作品名等については各所蔵機関の情報をご確認ください。

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The law
博物館法
Museum Act
昭和二十六年法律第二百八十五号 · Act No. 285 of 1951

Article 2 defines a museum as an institution that collects, keeps and displays materials on history, art, folklore, industry and natural science for public use, carries out research on them, and which has been registered under Chapter 2 of this Act. The registration is not decorative. In law, an unregistered collection open to the public is not a museum.

The cool part. The definition of keeping is given as including raising. That single parenthesis is why a zoo, an aquarium and a botanical garden sit inside museum law in Japan: the collection is allowed to be alive. Article 1 also grounds the statute in the Social Education Act and the Basic Act on Culture and the Arts, which places museums in education first and culture second.

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Use it The border is the idea. Use it as an edge treatment and leave the centre empty.

Description source: museum curator text, translated — not generated