Takahashi City Museum of Local History

Takahashi City Local History Museum is a municipal local history museum located in Mukai-cho, Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture. It opened in 1978 as a local museum. Over 3,000 folk implements are on display. The building, which was completed in 1904, is named the ``Former Takahashi Junior High School Main Building'' and is designated as a tangible cultural property of Takahashi City. == History == This Western-style wooden building was built as the main building of Takahashi Junior High School in 1904 (Meiji 37) during the Russo-Japanese War. It was built using high-quality, straight-grained, knotless fir wood sourced from the local Gagyusan National Forest. The chief construction supervisor was Yutaro Seno, a carpenter, but Seno is said to have had no modern education in architecture. The first floor contains staff rooms and student waiting rooms, and the second floor is an auditorium. The auditorium has a Momoyama-style double-fold coffered ceiling. Furthermore, the general classrooms were connected to the south side (later the Takahashi City Takahashi Central Library was built) and the north side.