Okayama Orient Museum
is a museum of Ancient Near Eastern, Roman provincial, Byzantine, Sassanian, and Islamic Art in  Kita-ku, Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. As of 2007 there were some 4,852 items, including a winged Assyrian relief from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud, Mesopotamia, acquired to mark the institution's 25th anniversary.

The museum was founded to house the collection of Shinjiro Yasuhiro, who acquired thousands of objects with the advice of academics from the University of Tokyo.

The museum building has two floors of exhibition galleries to showcase the collection. It was constructed in 1979 by the city of Okayama from a prize-winning design by Okada Architect & Associates.

See also

 Orient
 Antiquities trade
 Miho Museum
 Okayama Station

References

External links
 Homepage

Museums in Okayama
Art museums and galleries in Okayama Prefecture
Museums of Ancient Near East in Asia
Museums of ancient Rome
Museums established in 1979
1979 establishments in Japan