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The Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum opened on June 1, 1978, in Seto City, Aichi Prefecture, one of the largest ceramic production centers in Japan, as a project commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Aichi Prefectural Government. Since then, the museum has collected various ceramics from Japan, Asia, and other parts of the world, and has grown to become one of Japan's leading museums specializing in ceramics with a collection of approximately 8,300 pieces, including three important cultural properties.
The permanent exhibition features Japanese ceramics from primitive to modern times, as well as ceramics from around the world. The special exhibitions held four times a year focus on ceramics and introduce the diverse values and attractions of ceramics from various perspectives, such as region, period, artist, and lifestyle culture, including ceramics as historical cultural assets, ceramics as works of art, and ceramics in daily life.

Visitors can spend a whole day discovering new things by seeing, making, and feeling pottery in the pottery museum, where they can try their hand at making ceramics, and in the old kiln museum, where they can see kilns excavated on the site from the Heian to Kamakura periods.

The museum will be closed for renovation from June 19, 2023, and is scheduled to reopen in April 2025.

The Heian Ceramics: Their Transformation Through Late 8th to 12th Centuries