Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum

Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum is one of the few costume museums in Tokyo. The museum holds four exhibitions a year with the theme of "Understanding Japanese and World Culture through Clothing", showing different cultures through clothing. The museum also conducts research and holds exhibitions with other museums and art galleries in Japan and abroad, and provides information useful to more people. Initially, the collections in the museum mainly consisted of European dresses, early Japanese western dresses and kimonos. It later sought out and expanded its collection with clothing from a variety of different regions. The collection now covers clothing from different regions such as Japan, Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America.