The opened in Nishihara, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan in 1990. The facility researches, preserves, and utilizes through display and other activities the prefecture's Buried Cultural Properties. As of the early Reiwa era, around four thousand such sites have been identified in Okinawa Prefecture, from the Palaeolithic to modern times, including shell mounds, settlements, tombs, gusuku, underwater sites, and war ruins.
See also
Okinawa Prefectural Museum
List of Historic Sites of Japan (Okinawa) List of Cultural Properties of Japan - archaeological materials (Okinawa) List of Cultural Properties of Japan - historical materials (Okinawa) Ryukyu University Museum (Fūjukan)
References
External links
Okinawa Prefecture Archaeological Center
Okinawa Prefecture Archaeological Center: list of reports (Nabunken)
Nishihara, Okinawa
Museums in Okinawa Prefecture
History of Okinawa Prefecture
Archaeological museums in Japan
Museums established in 1990
1990 establishments in Japan
