This museum was opened to display and disclose regional cultural properties, to research and study historical legacies, and to preserve them for future generations. This area is called “Kannon-no-Sato (hometown of the Goddess of Kannon)" because it has so many Kannon Buddha statues which have been carefully handed down from the past for more than 1000 years. This museum has welcomed many visitors, helping them to deepen their basic knowledge about viewing cultural properties and communicating to them the distinctive praying spirit of Japan.