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An Outline of the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum 2004 Independent Administrative Institution National Museum Secretariat An Outline of the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum 2004 Independent Administrative Institution National Museum Secretariat 13-9, Ueno Koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo, 110-8712 Phone: 03-3822-1111 URC: http://www.natmus.jp/ Greetings from the chairman of board directors from Greetings An Outline of the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum CONTENTS Greetings from the chairman of the board of directors…… 1 I What is the new mandate of the National Museum ……2 II Activities of the National Museum ………………………3 1. Disseminating Japanese aesthetics and culture………3 ① Exhibitions ② Research activities ③ Educational activities ④ Volunteer activities As of April 2004, four years have passed since the 2. Passing down Japanese aesthetics and culture ………6 Independent Administrative Institution (IAI) National ① Collection, preservation and restration Museum, consisting of the Tokyo National Museum, the ② Recording and disseminating information Kyoto National Museum and the Nara National Museum, 3. Attracting more people to the museums ……………7 was established. ① Number of visitors In August of 2003, the IAI Evaluation Committee of the ② Efficient use of museum facilities Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Science and 4. Activities of the individual national museums ………8 Technology stated its opinion that it would like the Tokyo, ① Tokyo National Museum Kyoto and Nara National Museums to be operated in an ② Kyoto National Museum integrated manner. In response to this recommendation, we ③ Nara National Museum have decided that some administrative processes, including ④ Kyushu National Museum (tentative name) personnel affairs common to the three national museums, should be handled at Institution Secretariat and that III Operation of the National Museum …………………16 museum outline brochures formerly published separately 1. Cooperation with outside organizations and people ……16 by each national museum should also be compiled into a ① The supporting members system single booklet, to make it easy for the public to understand ② Friends of the Museum the general nature of the National Museum. 2. Organization and number of staff at each museum ……16 In addition, the chairman of the board of directors and ① Organization other directors, who doubled the role of the executive ② Directors directors of the national museums, have tended to focus ③ Board of Special Advisors most on their own duties as executive directors. In the ④ Board of Outside Evaluation future, however, these directors will share the work of ⑤ Board of Trustees (by each museum) overseeing cross-museum management while the chairman of the board of directors serves as the supervisor of overall ⑥ Number of museum staff museum activities. 3. Budget of the fiscal year 2004 ……………………21 We intend to operate the branch museums of the National Museum in an integrated manner, while making the most IV Evaluation 22 …………………………………………… of the individual characteristics of each national museum. V Disclosure of information ……………………………24 Chairman of the board of directors of the Independent ◇ Information about membership ………………………25 Administrative Institute National Museum NOZAKI Hiroshi National Treasure "Waterfowl in Lotus Pond," by Tawaraya Sotatsu (Kyoto National Museum) Greetings from the chairman of board directors from Greetings An Outline of the Independent Administrative Institution National Museum CONTENTS Greetings from the chairman of the board of directors…… 1 I What is the new mandate of the National Museum ……2 II Activities of the National Museum ………………………3 1. Disseminating Japanese aesthetics and culture………3 ① Exhibitions ② Research activities ③ Educational activities ④ Volunteer activities As of April 2004, four years have passed since the 2. Passing down Japanese aesthetics and culture ………6 Independent Administrative Institution (IAI) National ① Collection, preservation and restration Museum, consisting of the Tokyo National Museum, the ② Recording and disseminating information Kyoto National Museum and the Nara National Museum, 3. Attracting more people to the museums ……………7 was established. ① Number of visitors In August of 2003, the IAI Evaluation Committee of the ② Efficient use of museum facilities Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Science and 4. Activities of the individual national museums ………8 Technology stated its opinion that it would like the Tokyo, ① Tokyo National Museum Kyoto and Nara National Museums to be operated in an ② Kyoto National Museum integrated manner. In response to this recommendation, we ③ Nara National Museum have decided that some administrative processes, including ④ Kyushu National Museum (tentative name) personnel affairs common to the three national museums, should be handled at Institution Secretariat and that III Operation of the National Museum …………………16 museum outline brochures formerly published separately 1. Cooperation with outside organizations and people ……16 by each national museum should also be compiled into a ① The supporting members system single booklet, to make it easy for the public to understand ② Friends of the Museum the general nature of the National Museum. 2. Organization and number of staff at each museum ……16 In addition, the chairman of the board of directors and ① Organization other directors, who doubled the role of the executive ② Directors directors of the national museums, have tended to focus ③ Board of Special Advisors most on their own duties as executive directors. In the ④ Board of Outside Evaluation future, however, these directors will share the work of ⑤ Board of Trustees (by each museum) overseeing cross-museum management while the chairman of the board of directors serves as the supervisor of overall ⑥ Number of museum staff museum activities. 3. Budget of the fiscal year 2004 ……………………21 We intend to operate the branch museums of the National Museum in an integrated manner, while making the most IV Evaluation 22 …………………………………………… of the individual characteristics of each national museum. V Disclosure of information ……………………………24 Chairman of the board of directors of the Independent ◇ Information about membership ………………………25 Administrative Institute National Museum NOZAKI Hiroshi National Treasure "Waterfowl in Lotus Pond," by Tawaraya Sotatsu (Kyoto National Museum) National What is the new mandate National Activities of the Museum of the National Museum? Museum National Museum In April 2001, the Tokyo National Museum, the Kyoto National Museum and the Nara National The primary activities of the National Museum involve providing such direct services to visitors as exhibitions Museum were united under the name of the Independent Administrative Institution National and education. Study and research, including collecting and preserving works of art, are conducted in support Museum (hereunder referred to as the National Museum), as part of the national government's of the exhibit and education functions. Of course, the expansion and improvement of museum facilities -- such as storages and exhibition rooms -- is administrative reform program, to provide higher quality and better educational services to the very important and prerequisite to all the museum's activities. Here are some of the most important things we public. do: To achieve the goals of the 5-year mid-term plan suggested as a guideline for the operation of the National Museum by the Minister of ECSST, we at the National Museum worked out our own SStudytudy aandnd rresearchesearch OfferingOffering exhibitionsexhibitions Serving mid-term plan and annual plans, and are carrying out various projects according to these plans. CCollectingollecting PPreservingreserving aartrt visitors As part of the 5-year mid-term plan (2001 through 2005), the National Museum aims to play the aartrt oobjectsbjects oobjectsbjects PProvidingroviding ppublicublic educationeducation following four basic roles, to make itself more appealing to the public and attract more people to the museum. Improving and enhancing our facilities ① Inherit Japanese culture, while passing down Japanese cultural properties, our invaluable national properties, to the following generations in good condition ② Present cultural properties to the public, in order to improve and develop Japanese 1 Disseminating Japanese aesthetics and culture culture ③ Promote cultural exchanges between Japan and foreign countries, thus serving as a ① Exhibitions representative of Japanese culture The National Museum offers regular exhibitions and provides a variety of special exhibitions, to meet the ④ Contribute to the activities of museums in Japan and abroad, as Japan's central needs of the public. This encourages people to take an interest in Japanese cultural properties, including works museum of art and archaeological objects, and to appreciate Japanese aesthetics and develop a better understanding of traditional Japanese culture. In addition, we cooperate with overseas art museums and other types of museums, To fulfill these goals, it is necessary for us to increase our collection and improve museum enabling us to provide many exhibitions that bring representations from other cultures to the Tokyo, Kyoto and facilities as well as our ability to collect, preserve, display, and study cultural properties, including Nara national museums. At the same time, we can help with the presentation of exhibitions all around the works of art and archaeological objects. In addition, we need to enhance our functions as an world that illustrate Japanese aesthetics and culture to people
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