Facilities
1st floor
Entrance
A nice open marble entrance. Cormorant fishing mosaic tiles are embedded in the upper atrium.
Gifu Gaku Navi
Using a three-dimensional diorama and information kiosks, visitors can explore Gifu City’s cultural and tourism resources as well as museum materials. This system, which can also be accessed from your own mobile device, encourages visitors to extend their journey from the museum to Japan Heritage and Gifu Historical Heritage sites.
Mino country pictorial
This is a ceramic board with a reproduction of “Saiken Mino country pictorial”: a woodblock printing made in 1834. (Source material: Gifu Prefectural Archives collection)
Museum Shop
Museum Shop is located next to the reception.
In addition to publications such as exhibition catalogs, the store carries unique items.
Special exhibition room
We hold special exhibitions and planned exhibitions a few times a year and display fine art and cultural treasure.
For the current exhibitions, please visit the exhibition page.
Gifu’s old roofing tiles
Reliefs of Noki-maru-gawara (round, roofing ‘edge tiles’) excavated from Atsumi-ji temple and Nagara-haiji abandoned temple are decorated.
Auditorium
With about 170 seats and a stage, lectures and group orientations are held.
Mezzanine floor
Lecture room
Lectures on this museum and Kato Eizo & Toichi Memorial Art Museum are held.
Library
More than 20,000 books are stored. Not only books of Gifu’s history, but a wide range of genres are included and available. Open to general public. If you would like to use the library, please come to the reception area.
3rd floor
Permanent Exhibition
The concept of the exhibition is:
“Find Something to Love! Gifu Gaku (Enjoy Gifu)”
Discover the charm of Gifu, deepen your understanding of its history, and enjoy everything Gifu has to offer.
Focusing primarily on the Sengoku Period, the exhibition introduces the history of Gifu City. In addition to authentic historical artifacts, the exhibition features reproductions of a Showa-era streetcar, a market and castle town from the Sengoku Period, content utilizing digital data from the museum’s collections, and hands-on activity areas that children can enjoy.
For more information, please visit the Permanent Exhibition page.
Stained glass “Renka”
Stained glass produced by Ms. Etsuko Tachibana with a cormorant fishing motif.
