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The Toyohashi City Museum of Art and History (豊橋市美術博物館, Toyohashi-shi Bijutsu Hakubutsukan) is a purpose-built municipal art museum and local cultural museum in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It opened in 1979. The permanent collections of the museum are concentrated around five themes: 1. * Archaeological finds from local shell middens, kofun and ancient ceramic kilns in the Toyohashi area. 2. * Cultural artifacts from Edo period and Meiji period sericulture and daily articles. 3. * Ceramics from the Edo and Meiji periods used for serving sake (collection of Tadashi Tsukasa). 4. * Documents from the Edo period from the local . 5. * Yōga style paintings by local artists or by modern Japanese artists depicting themes of local interest. The building is a two-story ferroconcrete construction, with two display rooms downstairs and five display rooms upstairs. The museum is in Toyohashi Park, near Yoshida Castle in downtown Toyohashi.